Quiconque voudra ouvrir un théâtre le pourra en se soumettant aux conditions de police que voici ...
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

"Well, I must wait," thought Manners, reflecting sagely on the difficulties of executing punctually even so simple a commission as that which he had undertaken.
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

When they found that all the muskets were exhausted they were content to take money and other articles in lieu: an old dress waistcoat of mine and a regulation breastplate procured eight small sheep; and Captain Browse got fourteen goats for a pair of old pistols.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George, Sir

En longeant le mur du monastère et en entendant le son de la cloche qui appelle les recluses volontaires à la prière elle se sera adressée cette question: 'A quoi servent done les religieuses?'
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Lazzari, in his Uomini Illustri del Piceno , enumerates sixteen such as conferring lustre upon Urbino, but of these we shall only name one more.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun

If, as we have seen, cases of the Composition of Causes are seldom adapted for any other than deductive investigation, this is especially true in the case now examined, the continual composition of a cause with its own previous effects; since such a case is peculiarly amenable to the deductive method, while the undistinguishable manner in which the effects are blended with one another and with the causes, must make the treatment of such an instance experimentally still more chimerical than in any other case. § 2.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

Escape seemed impossible; but who would not have preferred even so slender a chance with so frightful an alternative behind him?
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever