Then when some deity, the one I think who devised my former troubles, or perhaps some unfriendly chance, cut short this journey, she sent me to visit Greece, having asked this favour on my behalf from the Emperor, when I had already left the country.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

It was noted by Lieutenant R. F. Burton 6 that, in some hamlets, the Kotas of the Nīlgiris have set up curiously carved stones, which they consider sacred, and attribute to them the power of curing diseases, if the member affected is rubbed against them.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

In the sea, under certain circumstances, seals have more than once been mistaken for men.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

However, although I am a little uncertain about other bets, I have no doubt in my own mind that coach sweepstakes under certain circumstances should be discouraged.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, June 8, 1895 by Various

Oviedo, 23 , 43 , 69 , 70 , 80 , 102 , 103 , 137-144 , 145 , 150 , 154 , 198 , 371 , 375 ; Bishop of ( See under Bishops ); Cathedral of ( See under Cathedrals ); Church ( See under Churches ).
— from The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with Them by Charles Rudy

The boys have been in class for more than a quarter of an hour Didto na ang mg̃a bata sa escuelahan capin na sa usa ca cuarto sa horas
— from Mga Paquigpulong sa Iningles ug Binisaya by Gregorio de Santiago Vela

No one knows—only those that have seen us could credit such a sight, and if I live for years may I never see such a sight again.
— from In the Firing Line: Stories of the War by Land and Sea by Arthur St. John Adcock

For the poet's being divinely taught, compare Prop II x 10 & IV i 133, Her XV 27-28 'at mihi Pegasides blandissima carmina dictant; / iam canitur toto nomen in orbe meum', and the disclaimers at Prop II i 3 and AA I 25-28 'non ego, Phoebe, datas a te mihi mentiar artes, / nec nos aeriae uoce monemur auis, / nec mihi sunt uisae Clio Cliusque sorores / seruanti pecudes uallibus, Ascra, tuis'.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

A greater number of capsules would have been produced by the cross, had not some of the nineteen flowers been on a plant which was afterwards proved to be from some unknown cause completely sterile with pollen of any kind.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin