The officer returned to the court-room as though Father Smith followed in the rear, when, on a sudden, he looked back, and not seeing his prisoner, he hurried back to the private room, examining every point, and returned in great apparent amazement and confusion, declaring that the prisoner had gone in an unaccountable manner, saying, ludicrously, "This, gentlemen, is another Mormon miracle."
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

Legeram tuas litteras XIII K., cum mihi epistula adfertur a Lepta circumvallatum esse Pompeium, ratibus etiam exitus portus teneri.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Solo en el tramo de la Canal de Santa Bárbara, se hallan muchos Joyas, pues raro es el Pueblo donde no se vean dos ó tres.'
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

5. Causa omnis perfectionis rerum ea est per univerum hoc. 6.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

He strove without ceasing to make a reputation in other fields of literature: a poem on St. Isidore, the patron-saint of Madrid, the Hermosura de Angélica with a mass of supplementary sonnets, the prose romance entitled El Peregrino en su patria , the epic Jerusalén conquistada written in emulation of Tasso—these diverse works were produced in rapid succession between 1599 and 1609.
— from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

This is to be ascribed to many causes—to the intermingling of races, an insular position, political revolutions, enlarged experience, providential discoveries, and the creation of sentiments and opinions during centuries of mental activity; but, above all, it is to be ascribed to Christianity, which has long had a strong hold upon the hearts of multitudes, and which has indirectly exercised a most beneficial reflex influence upon the character of others, who have little regard for its doctrinal principles.
— from London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown

Souvent aux arques A leurs marques, Se laissent tous desbouser Pour ruer, Et enterver Pour leur contre, que lors faisons La fée aux arques respons.
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

This Nuthatch is abundant throughout the State of Illinois, and is a permanent resident everywhere except perhaps of the extreme northern counties.
— from Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897 by Various

and Paul Riant [Expéditions et Pèlerinages des Scandinaves en Terre Sainte, Paris, 1865, p. 236] is not very probable.
— from In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2) by Fridtjof Nansen