Nothing ever really disturbed Chirpy 41 Cricket after he settled in the farmyard.
— from The Tale of Chirpy Cricket by Arthur Scott Bailey

The North made a perfunctory submission, and a Norman earl, Robert de Comines, was set over it.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

Michel-Ange, dit-on, remarqua le premier que le Laocoon n'était pas d'un seul morceau; Pline a très-bien pu ne pas s'en apercevoir plus que nous et répéter de confiance une assertion inexacte."— Ampère, Hist.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

caminando para salir a lo llano que esta pasada toda la cordillera a quatro dias andados de camino dieron en un rio de gran corriente hondo que baxaba de hacia cicuyc y a queste se puso nombre el rio de cicuyc detubieron se aqui por haçer puente para le pasar acabose en quatro dias con toda diligençia y prestesa hecha paso todo el campo y ganados
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

In the afternoon, new enemy reinforcements delivered converging attacks of great violence, combining them with a furious thrust against the Schoorbakke Pass, situated half-way between Dixmude and Nieuport.
— from The Yser and the Belgian Coast: An Illustrated History and Guide by Pneu Michelin (Firm)

"] Note 302 ( return ) [ Memoires de Saint Simon; Dangeau; Racine's Letters, and Narrative entitled Relation de ce qui s'est passe au Siege de Namur; Monthly Mercury, May 1692.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

"What now, ... eh?" roared de Claverlok; "why, here has this young cub gone and mislaid your saddle girth!
— from The Red Tavern by C. R. (Charles Raymond) Macauley