"There's Watts' world, full of stuffed Personifications, Virtue, Pleasure, Happiness, Sin, Sorrow, and God knows what of demigods, with the hay of his philosophy sticking out of their eyeholes.
— from A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White

"Prudent, very prudent," he said to himself.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

Not so; but, straining loud his feeble voice To animate his soldiers, broke a vein, And, in a purple vomit, poured his soul. Panth.
— from Dryden's Works Vol. 08 (of 18) by John Dryden

Si quis homicidium fecerit et fugam petierit, parentes ipsius habeant spacium intra dies XV., ut aut partem restituant et securi insedeant, aut ipsi de patria vadant; post hoc si ipse interemptor venire voluerit, reddat medium quod restat et vivat securus.
— from Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales' by Frederic Seebohm

And in another place very plainly Homer says, that Many a sleepless night he knew.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

When he came back past Vaniman, patrolling, he snapped: “No more talk!
— from When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel by Holman Day

7, passed in 1429, must be "people dwelling and resident in the counties, who should have free land or tenement to the value of forty shillings by the year at least, above all charges;" whilst in Ireland, every tenant having a lease for a life was entitled to a Parliamentary vote, provided he swore that his farm was worth forty shillings annual rent, more than the rent reserved in his lease.
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon