“What has made you come to such a sudden decision?” asked the perplexed Vassili (very nearly he added: “Fancy going travelling with a man whose acquaintance you have just made, and who may turn out to be a rascal or the devil knows what!”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Nam et qui gratificantur cuipiam, quod obsit illi, cui prodesse velle videantur, non benefici neque liberales, sed perniciosi assentatores iudicandi sunt, et qui aliis nocent, ut in alios liberales sint, in eadem sunt iniustitia, ut si in suam rem aliena convertant.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

N. nearness &c. adj.; proximity, propinquity; vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity &c. 199.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Perhaps six years had exercised a degeneratory effect upon Roi Denis, or perchance I have more realism than sentiment; my eyes could see nothing but a petit vieux vieux, nearer sixty than seventy, with a dark, wrinkled face, and an uncommonly crafty eye, one of those African organs which is always occupied in "taking your measure" not for your good.
— from Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

In an address published in the Journal of the Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis , Vol. V, No. 1, January 1914, Dr. Cabot contended that the hygienic and moral aspects of sex-education should not be associated.
— from Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Maurice A. (Maurice Alpheus) Bigelow

Scanty as is the amount of declension and conjugation in current use, there are to be found in every department of our grammars, Page vii {vii} numerous isolated words which exhibit the fragments of a fuller inflection, and of a more highly developed etymology.
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

“You have met with a slight accident,” said a pleasant voice very near her, as a white-capped nurse appeared.
— from My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 4, October 20, 1900 Marion Marlowe's Noble Work; or, The Tragedy at the Hospital by Lurana Sheldon

[1929] Chapter House Books, A 3 ⁄ 11 , pp. 2, 62; Cal. of State Papers, Vol. VII, No. 1607.
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little