Wrak , sb. that which is driven ashore, wreck, S2, S3, C3; rac , driven vapour, rack, S2, SkD; rack , Sh.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

“I only said Chloe,” replied Don Quixote; “and that no doubt, is the name of the lady of whom the author of the sonnet complains; and, faith, he must be a tolerable poet, or I know little of the craft.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

El inmenso cielo sin nubes parecía agrandarse más y alejarse de la tierra para 15 verla y en su contemplación recrearse desde más alto.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

"I only said Chloe," replied Don Quixote; "and that no doubt, is the name of the lady of whom the author of the sonnet complains; and, faith, he must be a tolerable poet, or I know little of the craft."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Occasionally, the smoke came rolling down the chimney as though it could not bear to go out into such a night; and when I set the doors open and looked down the staircase, the staircase lamps were blown out; and when I shaded my face with my hands and looked through the black windows (opening them ever so little was out of the question in the teeth of such wind and rain), I saw that the lamps in the court were blown out, and that the lamps on the bridges and the shore were shuddering, and that the coal-fires in barges on the river were being carried away before the wind like red-hot splashes in the rain.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In a word, as Seneca concludes, Religio Deum colit, superstitio destruit , superstition destroys, but true religion honours God.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He might, for example, make a number of incorrect choices, then pause for a few seconds to look steadily at the doors, and having apparently found some cue, run directly to the right box.
— from The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational Behavior by Robert Mearns Yerkes

She came right down-stairs and past where we were.
— from The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Felix

I'm sure Cavour really did work it out, before he disappeared.
— from Starman's Quest by Robert Silverberg

Address, after July 14, Dr. J. H. Vincent, Chautauqua, N. Y. C. L. S. C. “Recognition” Days: At Ocean Grove, N. J., Tuesday, July 3.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, June 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

in the Sanskrit College reads durdaśáḥ .
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

The following names are of those who sent answers to Wiggle No. 14: G. B. Dimmick, Willie R. Perkins, G. C. Meyer, Mary A. Hale, H. M. P., Hudson Taylor, Wee Tot, M. Prall Grant, Eddie Hunter, Cloyd D. Browns, Alice Rhawn, Arthur L. Bumpus, Robert M., S. J. G., B. R. Howell, Edith Bidwell, E. C. K., C. F. Peck, Jun., James L. Busbee, Catharine, S. C. Register, Dimple McCrea, Irish Stew, George Broomhall, Bernie Wurriochke, F. R. Powley, Robert G. Bidwell, W. H. Western, D. C. Hick, H. Jacobs, Isabel Jacobs, Julia Maude Sickels, May Rickerson, Wiggle Maker, A. H. Addington, Bessie B. Anderson, Horace F. Ames, Everett C. Fay, Bront Smith, L. D. H., Glen Hughes, S. Knight Satterlee, William McClellands, George McClellands, John A. Tompkins, Herbert Fusselle, Effie Meacham, Jasper Bines, Sol.
— from Harper's Young People, October 19, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Suspicious perhaps of so sudden a change in the sentiments of Francesco Maria, the Sacred College raised difficulties in order to gain time for deliberation; but when, with his wonted impatience, he proposed to recall Donato and reconsider the matter, with a view to some other measure, the proffered devolution was accepted without further delay.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun