I am obliged to refuse you Pilit aco nagaayad canimo By no means Dili gayud mahimo Don’t refuse me Ayao ca pagayad canaco Begone!
— from Mga Paquigpulong sa Iningles ug Binisaya by Gregorio de Santiago Vela

How silly then and incongruous would it be, not to say how impious, to represent your people as no better and no wiser than they were before, and discoursing on subjects which no longer can or ought to concern them.
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

The law you cite applies only to certain designated kinds of cattle, as indeed there are kinds of cattle which are the foes and the bane of agriculture such as those you have mentioned—the goats—for by their nibbling they ruin young plantations, and not the least vines and olives.
— from Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Marcus Porcius Cato

They saluted each other and after a short pause the intendant began: "You are doubtlessly surprised, my Lord Counsellor, to see me here, but a matter of importance has led me to you, it appeared to me more courteous to visit you myself than to request your presence at Nismes, where, perhaps our conversation would not have been permitted to go on so uninterruptedly and familiarly."
— from The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel. Vol. I. by Ludwig Tieck