Ad Bosporos duos, vel bubus meabili transitu; unde nomen ambobus ( Pliny , vi. 1).
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

And here, in a work which, in an unpretending shape, aspires to take neither an uninformed nor a partial view of the political history of the ten eventful years of the Reform struggle, we should pause for a moment to observe the strangeness, that only five years after the reconstruction of the electoral body by the Whig party, in a borough called into political existence by their policy, a manufacturing town, too, the candidate comprising in his person every quality and circumstance which could recommend him to the constituency, and his opponent the worst specimen of the Old Generation, a political adventurer, who owed the least disreputable part of his notoriety to his opposition to the Reform Bill; that in such a borough, under such circumstances, there should be a contest, and that, too, one of a very doubtful issue.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Walker insisted upon loaning both of us neckcloths, and Pike various other articles of dress suitable to the occasion.
— from A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet

Before us nothing at present visible.
— from Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages by Fulgence Marion