The traveller in Yucatan—as indeed in all Mexico—has to learn what to a Briton, accustomed to more or less trust his fellow-man, is a very unpleasant lesson, namely that you can trust no one.
— from The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan by Frederick J. Tabor Frost

Et des travaux forcés de sa raison D'appareiller vers un lointain nouveau?"
— from Modernities by Horace Barnett Samuel

I am, of course, not now alluding to vessels that have gone temporarily missing, for they may in most cases be traced to the operations of the enemy; but I refer to those which vanish utterly, leaving no trace of any kind behind them to hint at their fate; and also to those other craft which are fallen in with, derelict, from time to time, plundered, and bearing indications that an attempt has been made to destroy them, either by scuttling them, or setting them on fire.
— from A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British Navy by Harry Collingwood

They were on the very upper level now.
— from Winter Fun by William O. Stoddard

I suspect he’s the fellow who visited us last night, an’ don’t believe that we have seen the last of him.”
— from The Boy Scouts at the Battle of Saratoga: The Story of General Burgoyne's Defeat by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

What we know is that by the beginning of the Christian era Ephesus was a metropolis with a temple so amazing, a theatre so vast and a library so beautiful that we stand amid the desolation to-day, helplessly trying to reconstruct the proportions of a community which could require these things; could build them and then vanish utterly, leaving not a living trace behind.
— from The Ship-Dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine

The period of gestation generally differs much in distinct species, but with varieties until lately no such difference had been observed.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

"She was very ugly last night," muttered Richard.
— from The Judge by Rebecca West