Ruskin entered Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1836, when only seventeen years old.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Between these two doors, for the convenience of the barristers going from the Hall to the Civil Chamber, which formerly was the Great Chamber of Parliament, had been formed a narrow and dark passage, in which, as one of them remarked, "every crime could be committed with impunity.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Then, at the musing hour of twilight, her softened thoughts returned to Valancourt; she again recollected every circumstance, connected with the midnight music, and all that might assist her conjecture, concerning his imprisonment at the castle, and, becoming confirmed in the supposition, that it was his voice she had heard there, she looked back to that gloomy abode with emotions of grief and momentary regret.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

We took several trips in the shikaras or houseboats, shaded by red- embroidered canopies, coursing along the intricate channels of Dal Lake, a network of canals like a watery spider web.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

[5740] Candida sideriis ardescant lumina flammis, Sudent colla rosas, et cedat crinibus aurum, Mellea purpurem depromant ora ruborem; Fulgeat, ac Venerem coelesti corpore vincat, Forma dearum omnis, &c. Let her be such a one throughout, as Lucian deciphers in his Imagines, as Euphranor of old painted Venus, Aristaenetus describes Lais, another Helena, Chariclea, Leucippe, Lucretia, Pandora; let her have a box of beauty to repair herself still, such a one as Venus gave Phaon, when he carried her over the ford; let her use all helps art and nature can yield; be like her, and her, and whom thou wilt, or all these in one; a little sickness, a fever, small-pox, wound, scar, loss of an eye, or limb, a violent passion, a distemperature of heat or cold, mars all in an instant, disfigures all; child-bearing, old age, that tyrant time will turn Venus to Erinnys; raging time, care, rivels her upon a sudden; after she hath been married a small while, and the black ox hath trodden on her toe, she will be so much altered, and wax out of favour, thou wilt not know her.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It was not till some time later that a certain number of rich English capitalists came to fix themselves in the colony.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

magnis copiis cum sorore Cleopatra 5 bellum gerens, quam paucis ante mensibus per suos propinquos atque amicos regno expulerat; castraque Cleopatrae non longo spatio ab eius castris distabant.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The local Committee of Arrangements, representing each Congregational Church in the city, has already at a preliminary meeting decided to hold the meetings in the First Congregational Church (Rev. E. P. Goodwin, D. D., Pastor), which has been offered with most cordial unanimity for the use of the Anniversary.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 09, September, 1879 by Various

The past so overwhelmed me as to render even common civilities loathsome, yet I endeavored to play the part assigned.
— from Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Levi Jackson Hamilton

Czech Republic EZ CZ CZE 203 CZE .cz
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

New era; Rose economic cycle chart of business periods of 317 years of technocycles.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals: Artwork 1960-1964 Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office