Perhaps I ought to remark that on the premature and sudden vanishing of Mr. Malone from the stage of Briarfield parish (you cannot know how it happened, reader; your curiosity must be robbed to pay your elegant love of the pretty and pleasing), there came as his successor another Irish curate, Mr. Macarthey.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

of George Mould the land of William Phillips y e lands of John Andrews and y e land of Phillip Lenird and part w th y e sea.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan

Wishing (if such were y e will of God) that you & we were againe united togeather in one, either ther or here; but seeing it is y e will of y e Lord thus to dispose of things, we must labour w th patience to rest contented, till it please y e Lord otherwise to dispose.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

E vos, Señor Conde, si tomades pesar, o cuidades que vos loan por escarnescer del añadimiento, que fezistes en los capillos, y en las piguelas, y en las otras cosas de caça que vos fezistes, guisad de fazer algunos fechos granados e nobles que les pertenesce de facer a los grandes omes.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek