There are many subjects yet not named in these pages which we ought to consider, but I must content myself by merely mentioning them, and you must be willing to think of them, and consider them with such care as their importance may demand.
— from Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition by Christopher Dresser

in my last letters sent from Nangasaque in the junck Godspeed , how that a nobellmans men of this place (called Semi Dono) fell a quarreling with Mr. Edmond Sayer and others, whereupon the King of Firando banished both them and Mr. Sayer, yet now all is revoked per the kinges order and Mr. Sayer cleared and the others recalled.
— from Diary of Richard Cocks, Volume 2 Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615-1622, with Correspondence by Richard Cocks

And your odd rhymes, that used to amuse me so? You never make them now.” “They do not cross my mind as they used to do,” said she, pensively.
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever