E io: <si` certi e prendon si` mia fede, che li altri mi sarien carboni spenti.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Whereas it was a senseless and seducing continency, ensnaring precious souls, unable as yet to reach the depth of virtue, yet readily beguiled with the surface of what was but a shadowy and counterfeit virtue.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Mrs Musgrove had got Mrs Harville's children away as much as she could, every possible supply from Uppercross had been furnished, to lighten the inconvenience to the Harvilles, while the Harvilles had been wanting them to come to dinner every day; and in short, it seemed to have been only a struggle on each side as to which should be most disinterested and hospitable.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

We saw at once what novel conditions of life might exist under an earth-surrounded sun, casting everywhere perpendicular shadow, and neither rising nor setting, but standing high in heaven, the lord of eternal day.
— from The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw

And be it further enacted, That if any Person shall wilfully make or transmit any false Declaration, or shall wilfully forge, counterfeit, or alter, or cause to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, or shall utter, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, any Declaration or Certificate hereby directed, or shall obtain any such Certificate under any other Name or Description than the true Name and Description of the Alien intended to be named and described, without disclosing to the Person granting such Certificate the true Name and Description of such Alien, or shall falsely pretend to be the Person intended to be named and described in any such Certificate, every Person so offending shall, upon Conviction thereof before Two Justices, either forfeit any Sum not exceeding One hundred Pounds, or be imprisoned for any Time not exceeding Three Calendar Months, at the Discretion of such Justices.
— from The Alien Invasion by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

[F] We think we ought here to recall (see: Comptabilism et Proportionnalisme social ) that every-one who makes transactions carries about with him not only his account book, but also a marker or stamp bearing representative figures or signs, identifying his personality and by aid of which he inscribes or obliterates the figures significant of the transactions in the account book of his correspondent.
— from Social Comptabilism The Cheque and Clearing Service in the Austrian Postal Savings Bank. Proposed Law laid before the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium by Hector Denis

Special words with c sounded like s. We have already given a list of simple words in which c is used for s, but the following may be singled out because they are troublesome: acquiesce paucity reticence vacillate coincidence‎ publicity license tenacity crescent prejudice‎ scenery condescend effervesce proboscis scintillate‎ oscillate rescind transcend Words with obscure Vowels.
— from The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric by Sherwin Cody

There are some curious electrical phenomena, such as St. Elmo’s Fire, already noticed under Electricity ; and in some parts of America, in very hot weather, such a light is perceived to issue from trees as the fire glides
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

In fact, whatever the dinner-parties may have seemed to herself, her own presence, her bright smile and sparkling conversation, effectually prevented sensations of dulness on the part of others who were there.
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne