I am Instructed to Capture and Search a Female Smuggler— I Protest in Vain—The Terrible Ordeal—Beauty Behind the Pulpit—Pills, Plasters, Quinine—The Pathetic Letter— We Meet Under Happier Stars.
— from How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

After a short interval, passed in visiting the different objects of beauty and interest in the gardens of the Priory, the hour arrived for assembling the guests under the marquees where the déjeûner dinatoire was prepared; and Lord and Lady Glenmore, with their party, adjourned thither.
— from The Exclusives (vol. 3 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

First, on the right, you have a range of tower-like precipices, the clinging wood climbing along their ledges and cresting their summits, white waterfalls gleaming through its leaves; not, as in Claude's scientific ideals, poured in vast torrents over the top, and carefully keeping all the way down on the most projecting parts of the sides; but stealing down, traced from point to point, through shadow after shadow, by their evanescent foam and flashing light,—here a wreath, and there
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

II The drink that to his cost good Icarus drew Of yore his sun-burned sicklemen to cheer, And which ('tis said) lured Celts and Boi through Our Alpine hills, untouched by toil whilere, Well shows that cordial was the draught, when new; Since it preserves its virtue through the year.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

During my stay in Paris I visited the gallery of David.
— from The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

" "You lost on the sale, I presume," I ventured to remark.
— from Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur