Old enemies who have become new friends Should so continue—'t is a point of honour;
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

In his old age he took to wife the Bailiff of Concordat’s daughter, young, fair, jolly, gallant, spruce, frisk, brisk, neat, feat, smirk, smug, compt, quaint, gay, fine, tricksy, trim, decent, proper, graceful, handsome, beautiful, comely, and kind—a little too much—to her neighbours and acquaintance.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

— lungga n true conchs. — sa lubut sa anay n frog shells, so called from their openings which resemble a pig’s anus.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

No, I do not feel so, said Cebes; and yet I cannot deny that I am often disturbed by objections.
— from Phaedo by Plato

I was to take possession the day after tomorrow, and Mrs. Crupp said, thank Heaven she had now found summun she could care for!
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

If some one have been a traveller in Italy, or as far as the emperor's court, wintered in Orleans, and can court his mistress in broken French, wear his clothes neatly in the newest fashion, sing some choice outlandish tunes, discourse of lords, ladies, towns, palaces, and cities, he is complete and to be admired:
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

No doubt in his lifetime he had been the pet of a noble manor, brought to the Northland from some sunny clime by master of powerful argosy.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

It was as slow and heavy as usual; but how relieved, how astonished, how grateful she felt, when the door opened, and he came in, happy, sober, bearing a huge basket filled with provisions, and threw down a parcel containing stockings, comforters, and mittens for the children, not forgetting some simple Christmas wreaths, and some of those condiments which children love.
— from The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage

FERRE, NELS F. S. Swedish contributions to modern theology.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Whether the architects of the pyramid of Cheops really proceeded in this way or not, it is certain that they obtained a result corresponding so well with this that if we assume they really did intend to set the base of the pyramid in latitude 30°, we find it difficult to persuade ourselves that they did not follow some such course as I have just indicated—the coincidence is so close considering the nature of the observations involved.
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

I know that Estelle has been dreadfully worried because some of the little money her father left her has been lost through an imprudent investment and that she has not felt sure she could manage to keep the house through another season.
— from The Spanish Chest by Edna A. Brown

(lyric 34) Political poets do not always manage to capture so well the estrangement which is necessary for successful social comment.
— from Deadly Pollen by Stephen Oliver