Tell me, my friend, when they talk to you of a blind force diffused throughout nature, do they present any real idea to your mind?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I had heard her conversing in Lingua Franca with her master, a fine old man, who, like her, felt very weary of the quarantine, and used to come out but seldom, smoking his pipe, and remaining in the yard only a short time.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"It's perfectly all right, I tell you!
— from Man's Best Friend by Evelyn E. Smith

On the 27th of October, 1778, he took the oath of allegiance required by the State of Pennsylvania, and renewed it the year following.
— from Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe

The official NSDAP program was open and notorious; it had been published in Mein Kampf for many years; it had been published and republished in the Yearbook of the NSDAP and elsewhere.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 6 by Various

shrieked Paul, and rushed into the yard.
— from Dame Care by Hermann Sudermann

I have your letters—the Earl of Salisbury's letters, proving that you were both aware of the plot—and that you employed me to watch its progress, and report it to you.
— from Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth

Filippo Bonanni, who like Athanasius Kircher was a Jesuit Father, published at Rome in the year 1722, a work entitled 'Gabinetto armonico pieno d'istromenti sonori,' which contains 138 copper-plate engravings of musical instruments, most of them with representations of the performers.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Engel

The acorns are on short stalks, solitary or in pairs, and ripen in two years, are short and rounded and in shallow cups.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

Without proceeding further back than the last two centuries, it may be observed that Fabius Columna in his work “De Purpura,” published at Rome in the year 1616, speaks of the Anomiæ; he calls them Conchæ rariores Anomiæ , and from that period at least the term Anomia has been received among Naturalists.
— from The Naturalist's Repository, Volume 1 (of 5) or Monthly Miscellany of Exotic Natural History: etc. etc. by E. (Edward) Donovan