We recommend these two pretty patterns, to our readers notice, as likewise adaptable by transposition, to centres, or by repetition, to broad stripes.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

We have seen how in the Italian Renaissance the fetters of dogma, tradition, and mediæval custom were removed, and servility and visionariness gave place to healthy individuality and realism; how 188 man and the world were discovered anew; and further, how among the other Romanic nations a lively feeling for Nature grew up, partly idyllic, partly mystic; and finally, how this feeling found dramatic expression in Shakespeare.
— from The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese

"We must not come back again here," he said, "for some of the teamsters would recognize me as having been driving lately, and I should have hard work to prove that I was not a deserter; we must take to the old regiment now as long as we are here."
— from Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

On the contrary, the comparison of the once resident, now absent landlord, excites very different feelings; the murmurings of discontent swell into the louder language of menace; and evils, over which no protective power of human origin could avail, are ascribed to that class, who, forgetful of one great duty, are now accused of causing every calamity.
— from St. Patrick's Eve by Charles James Lever

There are two more things that I can think of right now, and let me state both of them.
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

* * * * * * * * * * "His blithe work done, upon a bank the outlaw rested now, And laid the basket from his back, the bonnet from his brow;
— from Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Thomas Osborne Davis