Why, I pay less for this pretty Elizabethan cottage than I should for some brick dungeon in a West-end square.
— from The Rosery Folk by George Manville Fenn

Of the Eastern Hamites he remarks generally that they do not form a homogeneous division, but rather a number of different peoples either crowded together in separate areas, or dispersed in the territories of other peoples.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

They had sought furniture, pictures and porcelain together, and as he and Angela sat in the boudoir, with its pale eighteenth century tints, its subtly-carved furniture, and the mellow greys of its St. Aubins and Eisens, he felt that after a period of tumult and turmoil he was once more almost at home in an atmosphere all peace and suavity.
— from Paths of Judgement by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

But in England, during the pedantic eighteenth century, this i -sound was displaced by the original oi -sound, not by historical research but by mere deduction from the spelling, and the new pronunciation soon extended to the polite speech of America.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

* Ponere enim corpus transire in spiritum est omnino impossibile.
— from The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by F. J. Boudreaux