"Presenting paper money when paying a visit of condolence is a custom firmly established, and accordingly complied with by everybody with great strictness….
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

— She gazed on many a princely port Might well have ruled a royal court; On many a splendid garb she gazed,— Then turned bewildered and amazed, For all stood bare; and in the room Fitz-James alone wore cap and plume.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

There may have been some truth in this, for the old gentleman was perpetually pestering me with petitions, and I know for a certainty, from his own charities, was often without a shilling in his pocket; but I suspect the good dinners at Hackton had a considerable share in causing his regrets at the dissolution of our intimacy: and I know that his wife was quite sorry to forego the acquaintance of Bryan’s gouvernante, Mademoiselle Louison, who had all the newest French fashions at her fingers’ ends, and who never went to the rectory but you would see the girls of the family turn out in new sacks or mantles the Sunday after.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Transfix me, O Rutuli, if you have any piety: pierce me with your thousand arrows.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

To hear that poor Payne, my waiter, hath buried a child, and is dying himself.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Two of the eastern ministers of Constantius, the Prætorian præfect Musonian, whose abilities were disgraced by the want of truth and integrity, and Cassian, duke of Mesopotamia, a hardy and veteran soldier, opened a secret negotiation with the satrap Tamsapor.
— 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

Foss. , p. 360) says: "I find it necessary to call each genus (of the metallic minerals) by the name of its own metal, and to this I add a word which differentiates it from the pure ( puro ) metal, whether the latter has been mined or smelted; so I speak of rudis gold, silver, quicksilver, copper, tin, bismuth, lead, or iron.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

I believe," he continues, "my name is up about the county for preaching people mad ... whatever may be the immediate cause, I suppose we have near a dozen, in different degrees, disordered in their heads, and most of them I believe truly gracious people."
— from Science and Morals and Other Essays by Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir

For months he had carried about the defiant resolve not to utter the prescribed " dulce et decorum est pro patria mori ," whatever the refusal might cost.
— from Men in War by Andreas Latzko

Very pointed was Camille's neglect of both Harry and me, to make herself lovely to the dark and diffident new-comer, while Estelle positively pursued me with compensatory sweetness; and Gregory, whenever he and I were alone together, labored to reassure me of his harmlessness by expatiating exclusively upon the charms of Cécile.
— from The Cavalier by George Washington Cable

They were wearing pretty pink muslins, with pink sashes to match.
— from The School Queens by L. T. Meade

But Miss Corinna Rendlesham having remarked in a general way that she pitied "poor puny men" whose throats were always "giving out," he knew from that that she would not go herself nor allow Miss Lucy to go.
— from For the Major: A Novelette by Constance Fenimore Woolson

{47} CHAPTER VI THE GRAY COTTAGE 'I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.'— Mary Wolstonecraft Godwin's Letter.
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

The method which I adopted for preparing pure magnesia was the ignition of the nitrate prepared from the commercial magnesia alba .
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York