A little select connection of amateurs was forming around the shop in Brett Street, a secret connection eminently proper for any business undertaken by Mr Verloc, who, by a mystic accord of temperament and necessity, had been set apart to be a secret agent all his life.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

It is not needful to expose here the sophistry in both arguments, which has been already done elsewhere; 156 it is only needful to remark that neither proof, even if they could be defended by all manner of dialectical subtlety, could ever pass from the schools into the world, or have the slightest influence on the mere sound Understanding.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Disse Rustico: Figliuola, egli non averrà sempre cosí: e per fare, che questo non avvenisse, da sei volte anziche di su il letticel si movesero, ve 'l rimisero; tantoche per quella volta gli trasser sí la superbia del capo, che egli si stette volentieri in pace.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

semine masculo unde ortum est, figuram animalis conspicere nequeamus, attamen satis superque certi esse possumus figuram animalis ex qua animal ortum est, in animalculo quod in semine masculo reperitur, conclusam jacere sive esse; & quanquam mihi sæpius conspectis animalculis in semine masculo animalis, imaginatus fuerim me posse dicere, en ibi caput, en ibi humeros, en ibi femora; attamen eum ne minima quidem certitudine de iis judicium ferre potuerim, hujusque certi quid statuere supersedeo, donec tale animal, cujus semina mascula tam magna erunt, ut in iis figuram creaturæ ex qua provenit, agnoscere queam, invenire secunda nobis concedat fortuna."
— from Buffon's Natural History, Volume 03 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c. by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

He hastened, not without a curse on the intricacies of a Saxon breeches pocket, or SPLEUCHAN, as he called it, to deposit the treasure in his fob; and then, as if he conceived the benevolence called for some requital on his part, he gathered close up to Edward, with an expression of countenance peculiarly knowing, and spoke in an undertone, 'If his honour thought ta auld deevil Whig carle was a bit dangerous, she could easily provide for him, and tell ane ta wiser.' 'How, and in what manner?' 'Her ain sell,' replied Callum, 'could wait for him a wee bit frae the toun, and kittle his quarters wi' her SKENE-OCCLE.' 'Skene-occle!
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

His mother had taken all the care of her six children, even pulling fur from her own belly to make a soft nest covering for them when they were first born.
— from Among the Night People by Clara Dillingham Pierson

All well-trained Scotch children eat porridge for their breakfast, though it is going a little out of fashion these days.
— from Our Little Scotch Cousin by Blanche McManus

Such calls, emanating professedly from neutrals, but really from partisans, are not uncommon; and the result of them usually is, that the speakers meet with no opposition, and the resolutions are carried unanimously; none of the other party, except perhaps, a reporter or two, attending.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

Sri Lanka: machinery and equipment, textiles, petroleum, foodstuffs Sudan: foodstuffs, manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles Suriname: capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs, cotton, consumer goods Swaziland: motor vehicles, machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals Sweden: machinery, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel; foodstuffs, clothing Switzerland: machinery, chemicals, vehicles, metals; agricultural products, textiles Syria: machinery and equipment 23%, foodstuffs/animals 20%, metal and metal products 15%, textiles 10%, chemicals 10% (1998 est.)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"Reverent things, not secular," Calliope explains, "plannin' for church chicken-pie suppers an' Christmas bazaars and like that; but not a word about a picnic, not even if they was to be one o' Monday sunrise."
— from Friendship Village Love Stories by Zona Gale