He remembered the initial paraphenomena? More active air, a matutinal distant cock, ecclesiastical clocks at various points, avine music, the isolated tread of an early wayfarer, the visible diffusion of the light of an invisible luminous body, the first golden limb of the resurgent sun perceptible low on the horizon.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

After we had drunk hard we parted, and I went away and met Dr. Castle, who is one of the Clerks of the Privy Seal, and told him how things were with my Lord and me, which he received very gladly.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

—Pudiera ocurrir en alguna región donde el tráfico no puede sostener por sí solo los gastos de la empresa; pero en ciudades como Buenos Aires, en la que sólo una compañía transporta al año más de cuatrocientos millones de pasajeros y donde ya se han invertido más de cien millones de pesos en la instalación de esos servicios, no son necesarios los incentivos artificiales para atraer los capitales.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Conscious of her approaching greatness, she returned from Paphlagonia to Constantinople; assumed, like a skilful actress, a more decent character; relieved her poverty by the laudable industry of spinning wool; and affected a life of chastity and solitude in a small house, which she afterwards changed into a magnificent temple.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But, in his disordered fancy, the idea had assumed a more daring character, and trespassed, under certain conditions, upon the kingdom of inorganization.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Mrs Miller no sooner heard that Jones was alone (for she had not yet seen him since his release from prison) than she came eagerly into the room, and, advancing towards Jones, wished him heartily joy of his new-found uncle and his happy reconciliation; adding, “I wish I could give you joy on another account, my dear child; but anything so inexorable I never saw.” Jones, with some appearance of surprize, asked her what she meant.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

subito sunt Aedui visi ab latere nostris aperto , quos Caesar ab dextra parte alio ascensu manus distinendae causa miserat.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The unfortunate Ebionites, rejected from one religion as apostates, and from the other as heretics, found themselves compelled to assume a more decided character; and although some traces of that obsolete sect may be discovered as late as the fourth century, they insensibly melted away, either into the church or the synagogue.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

We shall not see into the true heart of anything, if we look merely at the quackeries of it; if we do not reject the quackeries altogether; as mere diseases, corruptions, with which our and all men's sole duty is to have done with them, to sweep them out of our thoughts as out of our practice.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

On the party questions which have hitherto agitated the people of these countries, I have purposely said as little as possible; much less have I thought of writing the history of a country which has not been a quarter of a century in existence; the institutions of which are quite in their infancy, and must necessarily require a long period ere they can assume a more definite character.
— from Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de La Plata Their Present State, Trade, and Debt by Parish, Woodbine, Sir

Of course there are times when we are thrown together alone—though this does not occur often, for she and my father are a most devoted couple, and spend the greater part of every day together—and I have noticed at those times that she never speaks of her girlhood, or of any part of her life before her marriage.
— from Milly Darrell by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

[In the Memoirs of the time it is said that Mademoiselle de Chartres, being at the Opera with her mother, exclaimed, while Caucherau was singing a very tender air, “Ah! my dear Caucherau!” and that her mother, thinking this rather too expressive, resolved to send her to a convent.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Complete by Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

The natives naturally conclude that they were right the day before, and a most disagreeable commercial intercourse is established.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

M. de Beauvilliers made merry with the adventure when he heard of it, and accustomed as M. de Chevreuse might be to his raillery, he could not bear to have this subject alluded to.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

This supposed action of Buller was taken as a most delicate compliment to Hickory Sam's determination and marksmanship, and he was justly proud of the work he had thrown into the lawyer's hands.
— from Revenge! by Robert Barr

'Not at all, my dear child.
— from The Carved Cupboard by Amy Le Feuvre

But he walked down the alley, and Madam de Cleves saw him go out at a back door, where his coach waited for him.
— from The Princess of Cleves by Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) La Fayette

But in regard to the Korkyræan revolution, we can arrive at a more discriminating criticism.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote

Li occhi di Beatrice, ch'eran fermi sovra me, come pria, di caro assenso al mio disio certificato fermi.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri