This is an impropriety of speech, I confess; for I do no more thereby but take a certain for an uncertain number, and posit the determinate term for what is indeterminate.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Natangkas ang sáku ug naúsik ang pasì, The sack burst at the seam and the grain spilled out.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

After feeding, the Angel in his old and rather shabby striped overcoat, and I in my usual neat attire, proceed to walk together either to the big Pincian terrace which overhangs the city, and where on certain days everyone resorts, or to different churches and spots of note.
— from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James

The spacious firmament, with its suns, and moons, and stars; our globe, with its oceans, and mountains, and rivers; the regularly revolving seasons; and the still, small voice continually ascending from universal nature, all proclaim the power and goodness of their great original.
— from A Tour to the River Saguenay, in Lower Canada by Charles Lanman

Such, again, in matters dependent on causation, are all universal negatives, all propositions that assert impossibility.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

The supernumerary carpels in this flower were placed on a short axis, which originated in the axils of the stamens, and as these latter organs were present in their usual number and position, the adventitious carpels could not be considered as resulting from a transformation, or substitution of carpels for stamens.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters

The Old Gnome sat up nervously and peered through his knot-hole window.
— from Kisington Town by Abbie Farwell Brown