= my peaches; e = ripe; h = sold off in the evening.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

6 The Captain's Papers E rode hard all the way till we drew up before Dr. Livesey's door.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

A prudent explanation restored his tranquillity; and he passed to a more familiar topic of conversation.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

9. Cum Caesar in Galliam pervēnisset, erat rūmor Helvētiīs in animō esse iter per prōvinciam Rōmānam facere.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

But we shall afterwards show that, in relation to its practical exercise, Reason has the right of admitting what, in the field of pure speculation, she would not be justified in supposing, except upon perfectly sufficient grounds; because all such suppositions destroy the necessary completeness of speculation—a condition which the practical reason, however, does not consider to be requisite.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

9. Cum Caesar in Galliam pervênisset, erat rûmor Helvêtiîs in animô esse iter per prôvinciam Rômânam facere.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

But here, even in my grand room of state, there wasn’t anything in the nature of a picture except a thing the size of a bedquilt, which was either woven or knitted (it had darned places in it), and nothing in it was the right color or the right shape; and as for proportions, even Raphael himself couldn’t have botched them more formidably, after all his practice on those nightmares they call his “celebrated Hampton Court cartoons.”
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Jack Phillips, ever resourceful, had already uncoiled about thirty feet of thin but strong line, and had bent one end to the centre of his staff.
— from The Scouts of Seal Island by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

There are but few that can produce such [works] for repentance; and such faith, as yet you see I have proved even reprobates have had in several ages of the church.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

in my poore oppynyon it shalbe right well done that thaye might be sent For by Som e trustye p e rson howbeit yt were best that theye Fyrste sholde be sufferyd to speke
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

Thus of old did the contending wives of the honest patriarchs; each recommending her handmaid to her lord, as she thought it would oblige him, and looking upon the genial product as her own.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson

The inhabitants of the Calabrian shore behold images of palaces, embattled ramparts, houses, and ships, and all the varied objects of towns and landscapes, in the air—being refracted images from the Sicilian coast.
— from The Spirit Land by Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) Emmons

And clasped in one another's arms the brothers wept on, their hearts full of the softest emotion in that home of their youth, whither the dear shadows of their parents ever returned, hovering around until they should be reconciled and restored to the peace of the earth.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2 by Émile Zola

No place, because it is not "home," and I cannot plant except round "home."
— from Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies

Historia de ortu, progressu et ruina hæreseon hujus sæculi, ii.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird