['not in rhythmic prose'], sed soluta liberius'.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

fore noon and after noon in reading, praying, singing, and then return home.
— from The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler (Captain Harry Carter, of Prussia Cove) 1749-1809 by Harry Carter

At Nefta there is no impure region, properly so called.
— from Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas

"It was not imagination," repeated Peggy stoutly.
— from The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham

One night I reached Paris simultaneously with an air-raid warning.
— from Huts in Hell by Daniel A. (Daniel Alfred) Poling

This, however, is a very artless formula which has somehow developed of recent years; and it is doubtful whether even the audiences to which these plays appeal would not in reality prefer something a little less inept in the matter of construction.
— from Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer

At the same time, for use at the foot of the proofs of his Arabic types, he cut his own name in Roman, pica size.
— from The Art & Practice of Typography A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement by Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger) Gress

Armed with a letter of introduction to this man, in the early morning of October 22 we started on muleback, and, travelling without haste through the exquisite scenery of Jamaica (the main roads of which put ours of Cornwall to shame), arrived at Savannah-la-Mar on the 27th, a great part of the way having been occupied by Miss Belcher (who hated the sight of a negro) in rebuking Plinny's sentimental objections to slavery, and by Mr. Rogers in begging a collection of humming-birds.
— from Poison Island by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Whatever motive may be given out for starting a newspaper, expectation of profit by it is the real one, whether the newspaper is religious, political, scientific, or literary.
— from The American Newspaper by Charles Dudley Warner