[781] 'Le célèbre philosophe Leibnitz ... attaqua ces expressions du philosophe anglais, dans une lettre qu'il écrivit en 1715 à la feue reine d'Angleterre, épouse de George II.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

Mr. Per Lindell, a civil engineer, did much to popularize cremation in Sweden.
— from The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint by Hugo Erichsen

Simon Stylites on his pillar and St. Anthony in his cave were crazed; but we do not think that Baxter's Hooks and Eyes for Believers' Breeches is an indication of insanity any more than such works as La Seringue Spirituelle pour les Ames constipées en Dévotion , or La Tabatière Spirituelle pour faire éternuer les Ames dévotes .
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

He posted letters and called every day at the post office for mail.
— from The Spoilers of the Valley by Robert Watson