“Not exactly unexpected, Sir Ethelred.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

[88] In ancient tradition, it had no feathers nor wings, soaring without support high in the heavens, and, when not engaged upon some earthly message, dwelling in the land of illusion and phantasy.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

In cases of squint the opportunity for investigating the power of vision does not escape us so easily, and yet the same list, which contains among 629 patients 177 cases of squint with a visual acuteness of 1/8 to less than 1/36, furnished at the same time 98 cases with undoubted congenital defective vision of the same high degree without squint, which I place together in the following review.
— from Clinical Investigations on Squint by C. Schweigger

El Gaucho Malo no es un bandido, no es un salteador; el ataque a la vida no entra en su idea,
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

Will appeal to many Americans now entering upon similar experiences.”
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

It is plain, then, I think, that if we are to find a reason for the assertion that some particular perception of mine would probably not exist, unless someone else were having or had had a perception of a kind which I can name, we must find a reason for some generalisation.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

The chiefs had not expected us so early, and our only companion for some time was an old peasant, who now and then ran on before to give notice of our approach.
— from Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Basil Hall

We are a terrible band of robbers, and a person for whom we once lay snares does not escape us so easily."
— from A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern

An account of his travels is extant in Hakluyt’s collection, but there is not much information in it, and it had no effect upon subsequent events.
— from Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel, and Other Historical Sketches by George McCall Theal