"The number of named varieties of L. vulgare enumerated in Continental [Pg 399] and English nursery lists exceed a score, and most of them are mere monstrosities of leaf-form or colour, only appreciated by the collector of curiosities.
— from Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by E. T. (Ernest Thomas) Cook

Que si quelque chose d'immòde vient à vous offenser la veuë, en regardant à terre, comme quelque crachat infect, ou quelque autre chose semblable, mettez le pied dessus.
— from George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway by George Washington

These and other such like inaccuracies must be set down partly to conventional language used without meaning, the vice of Latin versification enforced as a task, but they are partly due to real defect of natural knowledge.
— from Milton by Mark Pattison

He published, as early as 1857, a volume of light verse entitled London Lyrics , which, with the work of Prior, Praed, and Mr. Austin Dobson, stands at the head of its kind in English.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury