The romance in verse by Baudouin de Sebourc, printed in recent years, was a parody of the Chansons de Geste.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

“These are the exact words of your letter: ‘Although you are certainly a very good customer, I have some pain in receiving your money: according to regular order I ought to pay for the pleasure I should have in working for you.’
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

SIR P: I reach you not.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

The whole story of secondary personality in recent years vividly recalls commonplaces in the older medical literature that gathered around the study of hysteria, and that afford a striking confirmation of the conclusion as to the relation of the conditions ascribed to hysteria.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Communications India Telephones - main lines in use: 38.76 million (2008) Telephones - mobile cellular: 296.08 million (2008) Telephone system: general assessment: recent deregulation and liberalization of telecommunications laws and policies have prompted rapid growth; local and long distance service provided throughout all regions of the country, with services primarily concentrated in the urban areas; steady improvement is taking place with the recent admission of private and private-public investors, but combined fixed and mobile telephone density remains low at about 30 for each 100 persons nationwide and much lower for persons in rural areas; rapid growth in cellular service with modest declines in fixed lines domestic: mobile cellular service introduced in 1994 and organized nationwide into four metropolitan areas and 19 telecom circles each with about three private service providers and one state-owned service provider; in recent years significant trunk capacity added in the form of fiber-optic cable and one of the world's largest domestic satellite systems, the Indian National Satellite system (INSAT), with 6 satellites supporting 33,000 very small aperture terminals (VSAT)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

They were all invited to La Trémoille’s table after the engagement, and, according to Godefroi’s Latin history of Louis XII., at the close of the repast two Franciscan monks entered the hall, whereupon La Trémoille rose and said: “Princes, I refer your judgments to the King, but as for you, Knights, who have broken your faith and falsified your knightly oath, you shall pay for your crime with your heads.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

"Yes," the Pirate said, peevishly, "I recognise you; but it was not you I wished to see."
— from The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert by Gustave Aimard

In spite of your impersonal air, I shall persist in regarding you as my benefactor.
— from The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The short story, which our magazines have rendered so popular in recent years, is a novel in miniature.
— from Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter

And this is logic plain as a, b, c. Now, Hector Stuart, you're a Scottish prince, If right you fathom your descent—that fall From grace; and since you have no peers, and since You have no kind of nobleness at all, 'Twere better to sing little, lest you wince When made by heartless critics to sing small.
— from Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce