“Bohemian girl,” the president continued, “have you avowed all your deeds of magic, prostitution, and assassination on Phoebus de Châteaupers.”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

I find this: “‘Tis always pleasant to read things written by those that have experienced how they ought to be carried on; but withal, it cannot be denied but there is a manifest decadence in these two lords—[Martin du Bellay and Guillaume de Langey, brothers, who jointly wrote the Memoirs.]—from the freedom and liberty of writing that shine in the elder historians, such as the Sire de Joinville, the familiar companion of St. Louis; Eginhard, chancellor to Charlemagne; and of later date, Philip de Commines.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Cripet, Dr. Histoire et physiologie du café.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Pay Day came late, as he always does; and Doomsday sent word—he might be expected.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

A LAS PUERTAS DEL CIELO THE DEVIL AT THE GATES OF HEAVEN (Quinta de don Juan Tenorio cerca de Sevilla y sobre el Guadalquivir.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

By the latter part of April the work was in a partially defensible condition, and the 7th infantry, Major Jacob Brown commanding, was marched in to garrison it, with some few pieces of artillery.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Poore Death can nothing give; yet, for her sake, Still in her turne, he doth a Lover take:
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Etiam erat 10 magna piscīna plēna piscium; nam Rōmānī piscīs dīligenter colēbant.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The last time they had met his was when he parted from her with his heart full of joyous hopeful love, and they looked out with a tearful smile from a pink, dimpled, childish face.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

22 Last of all the Beglerbegs, and Zanziacbegs, our Captaines, our slaues and seruants of Captaines vsing the sea, and our Iudges, customers and gouernours of ships called Reiz, and free Reiz, all these, according to the tenor of this priuilege and articles, shalbe bound to doe accordingly: and as long as the Queene of England on her part shall duely keepe and obserue this league and holy peace, expressed in this priuilege, we also for our Imperial part, do charge and commaund the same so long to be straightly kept and obserued.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

The events of the past fortnight had put a great strain upon him, and the present dilemma, coming at a time when he had hoped that all was safe, was almost overmastering.
— from Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

"It's Puvis de Chavannes' Ste. Geneviève as an old woman, guarding and praying for the city.
— from The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Ma perche' 'l balenar, come vien, resta, e quel, durando, piu` e piu` splendeva, nel mio pensier dicea: 'Che cosa e` questa?'.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

On the day of performance the vehicles were wheeled, by men, from place to place, throughout the city; the floor was strewed with rushes; and to conceal the lower room, wherein the performers dressed, cloths were hung round the vehicle: there is reason to believe that, on these cloths, the subject of the performance was painted or worked in tapestry.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Des autres novelles de p’decea, plese vous savoir mon t’sredoute seignur q’ le poeple de ce paiis est molt esbay de la longe demoer q’ vous faites p’dela moemens les gentils genz; a qui Mons r Godefrey de Harecourt p’lemente touz les iours et les enhorte estre oveges lui et de lui faire hom[age] come a lieutenant le Roi d’Englet’re et especialement a ceux qi tenent p’decea fort’estes
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous

An hour after the engagement two sections of the French Company that had sulked the preceding day came smilingly up and helped fortify the flanks.
— from The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore