¶ New notes have also been substituted for those referring to other volumes of the edition, so that each volume is now absolutely complete in itself.
— from Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

4. "Hir chere was ay semand sori," which your correspondent says is "an expression very strange to English verse," is nothing more than the old form of seeming : her cheer was ever sorrowful or sad-seeming .
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Wherefore , my unkind fair one, say, Whether the sun fierce darts his ray, Or whether gloom o'erspreads the sky, That envious veil is ne'er thrown by; Though well you read my heart, and knew How much I long'd your charms to view?
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

Technically speaking, the endangered vessel is not a ship, but a barque, as betokened by the fore-and-aft rig of her mizenmast.
— from The Land of Fire: A Tale of Adventure by Mayne Reid

The darkness prevented me seeing the faces of my companions; but on M. de Rosny, who was not quite free himself, I think, from the influences of the time and place, twitching my sleeve to enforce vigilance, I noted that the lackeys had ceased to follow us, and that we three were beginning to ascend a rough staircase cut in the rock.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman