44 The first permanent English settlement in South Carolina was established in 1670.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Lentulus tribunus militum cum praetervehens equo sedentem in saxo cruore oppletum consulem vidisset, ‘L. Aemili’ inquit, ‘quem unum insontem culpae cladis hodiernae dei respicere debent, cape hunc equum, dum et tibi virium aliquid superest, 5 et comes ego te tollere possum ac protegere.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

I’ve always felt that my fortunes were linked with Patty’s Place, ever since I saw it first.” H2 anchor Chapter X Patty’s Place The next evening found them treading resolutely the herring-bone walk through the tiny garden.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

This is a plain business proposition, that has been proved entirely sound in some notable in stances of tenement building, of which more hereafter.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

WHICH IS SOMEWHAT SURPRISING Pollyanna entered school in September.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

On the other hand, the monkish chronicler John of Harmoustier in Touraine (a contemporary writer) relates that when Henry I. chose Geoffrey, son of Foulk, Earl of Anjou, Touraine, and Main, to be his son-in-law, by marrying him to his only daughter and heir, Maud the Empress, and made him knight; after the bathing and other solemnities (pedes ejus solutaribus in superficie Leonculos aureos habentibus muniuntur), boots embroidered with golden lions were drawn on his legs, and also that (Clypeus Leonculos aureos imaginarios habens collo ejus suspenditur) a shield with lions of gold therein was hung about his neck.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

However, in order to explain more fully, I will refute the arguments of my adversaries, which all start from the following points:—— Extended substance, in so far as it is substance, consists, as they think, in parts, wherefore they deny that it can be infinite, or consequently, that it can appertain to God.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Semper amavi ut tu scis, M. Brutum propter ejus summum ingenium, suavissimos mores, singularem probitatem et constantiam: nihil est, mihi crede, virtute formosius, nihil amabilius.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

From Micham , my close prison ever since I saw you, 9 Octob.
— from Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne

I've been purty curious about this precious package ever since I see it.
— from The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler

I ought to have been a soldier, only I couldn't pass examinations, so I sort of interest myself in the old weapons and do my killing in imagination."
— from Viviette by William John Locke

[11] The birth, in the West of England, of this assiduous propagator of the great mediæval embodiment of civilisation, zealous devotee of the Church, and prominent European statesman, is so important a fact in our ethnical topography as to deserve a passing, though attentive, glance.
— from Vestiges of the supremacy of Mercia in the south of England during the eighth century by T. (Thomas) Kerslake

Wherefore the beauty of the house of the forest of Lebanon, as well as the fortitude thereof, was a temptation to the enemy to come to take it into their possession; especially since it stood, as it were, on the borders of Israel, and so faced the enemy's country.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

The engines whistled, the buckets paused, everything stopped instantly, save that from the depths a long chain came quickly up, and clinging to the end of it, as Cellini would have grouped them, were a dozen men—a living design—the most decorative motive I have ever seen in the Wonder of Work.
— from Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama Canal Reproductions of a series of lithographs made by him on the Isthmus of Panama, January—March 1912, together with impressions and notes by the artist by Joseph Pennell