"But Cyril, dearest, listen--even when you first come on you're not polite enough, not chivalrous enough.
— from Infatuation by Lloyd Osbourne

[Pg 293] priués de cette lumiere qui a esté donnée au seul homme, il faut conclurre par necessaire consequence, que telle procedure est nulle; cecy est tiré de la Loi premieree, ff. si quadrupes, pauper feciss.
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

Franceis q'est trop desconue en dit realme, issint qe les gentz qi pledent ou sont empledez en les courtz le Roi et les courtz d'autres n'ont entendement ne conissance de ce q'est dit por eulx ne contre eulx par lour sergeantz et autres pledours...."
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

y tam gordo por el naçimiento como el muslo de un hombre en la faieron pareçia mas ser de cabron que de otro animal fue cosa de ber pasando adelante y a quel canpo yba una jornada de çibola començo sobre tarde un gran torbellino de ayre frigidissimo y luego se signio gran lubia de niebe que fue harta
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

"Not positive evidence, not convicting evidence; that is what I want you to obtain."
— from Oscar the Detective; Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective by Old Sleuth

The author J. M. 1649,' P. 27 . history of my country : 'The History of Britain; that part especially now called England.
— from An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty. by John Milton

Ad hoc frater Minor: ‘Esto quod illius fratris ammocio, cum esset persona valde gravis, in cujus comparacione, secundum judicium humane estimacionis, frater Salomon est persona multum humilis, movere non debeat; saltem moveat vos quod alius lector fuit ammotus a loco suo pro pace vestra servanda, qui eciam cum se in presencia quorundam predicatorum excusaverat, nichil contra eum habuerunt nec habere potuerunt.’
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

his History of Britain, that part, especially, now called England, from the first traditional Beginning, continued to the Norman Conquest, collected out of the ancientest and best authors thereof.
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II. by Theophilus Cibber