[82] I think you should have had the speech printed a day earlier, and have kept this night free for resting.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

In 161 b.c. the senate passed a decree excluding all philosophers and teachers of rhetoric from the city.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I was once present at the wedding of some poor English people, and was deeply impressed by the spectacle, though by no means with such proud and delightful emotions as seem to have affected all England on the recent occasion of the marriage of its Prince.
— from Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook by Nathaniel Hawthorne

At length it came into his lordship’s most sagacious head that, although it might be hazardous to make any allusion to Neverden, there could not be much risk incurred by enquiring after Mrs Greendale, therefore he ventured to ask, as if for want of something else to say, if Miss Primrose had lately heard from Smatterton, and in making this enquiry he endeavoured to watch the countenance of the [131] young lady most narrowly, in order to observe whether the mention of Smatterton produced any deep emotion as connected with Neverden.
— from Penelope: or, Love's Labour Lost, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

But at length she arose, and after an hour or more of sauntering the farming landscape was left behind, the crumbling stone fences were replaced by a well-kept retaining wall capped by a privet hedge, through which, between stone pillars, a driveway entered and mounted the shaded slope, turning and twisting until lost to view.
— from The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete by Winston Churchill

It isn’t as easy as it ought to be to do justice to players playing impossible parts; to Miss Henrietta Watson struggling pluckily and skilfully with her Mrs. John ; or to Mr. Cowley Wright or Miss Rosa Lynd , so perfectly appalling did Ernest and Helen seem to me and so anxious was I to get them off to Paris respectably or otherwise.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 19, 1920 by Various

The pack was quickly broken up into smaller packages and distributed equally amongst the party, and soon all were moving forward again on their westerly course.
— from The Boy Chums in the Forest; Or, Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) Ely

Hac itaque patrata eversione, locus, qui tauto honoris splendore diu viguerat, exturbatis omnibus ac subuersis domibus, cœpit esse cubile ferarum et volucrum: maceriis in sua soliditate in sublime porrectis, arbustisque densissimis; et arborum virgultis per triginta fermè annorum curricula ubique a terra productis."
— from Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Dawson Turner