| 1. | On the transfer of the archives to Halifax, this package, proving to be of no public concern, was left behind, and had remained ever since unopened. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 2. | Nous trouvons en effet, dans les archives du Baron de Foursanvault, une piece qui en fixe parfaitement la date. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 3. | We have no historical record regarding this sketch nor do the archives in the Trivulzio Palace give us any information. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 4. | Prior to the Revolution there is a dearth of records the earlier documents and archives of the Custom-House having, probably, been carried off to Halifax, when all the king's officials accompanied the British army in its flight from Boston. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 5. | In those times panics were common, and few days passed without some city or other registering in its archives an event of this kind. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 6. | Well, she is a monster, who, at twenty-five years of age, has been guilty of as many crimes as you could read of in a year in the archives of our tribunals. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |