It seems a year ago," answered Meg, who was in a blissful dream lifted far above such common things as bread and butter.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Picking it up very delightedly and neatly, she thrust it through the lips of her vagina [ natura ], and bending down low immediately departed, the captain-general and I having seen that action.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Encore, enclap, said, cried, clapped all, Ben Dollard, Lydia Douce, George Lidwell, Pat, Mina Kennedy, two gentlemen with two tankards, Cowley, first gent with tank and bronze Miss Douce and gold Miss Mina.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Avoir -- à quelqu'un , avoir besoin de lui parler.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

The voices stopped at once, all but Dr. Livesey's; he went on as before speaking clear and kind and drawing briskly at his pipe between every word or two.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Here, then, we have two true Premisses and a false Conclusion (since we know that there are boys doing Latin, and that none of them are doing Greek).
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

After my Lord and I had done in private, we went out, and with Captain Cuttance and Bunn did look over their draught of a bridge for Tangier, which will be brought by my desire to our office by them to-morrow.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

On the rocky, volcanic seafloor, there bloomed quite a collection of moving flora: sponges, sea cucumbers, jellyfish called sea gooseberries that were adorned with reddish tendrils and gave off a subtle phosphorescence, members of the genus Beroe that are commonly known by the name melon jellyfish and are bathed in the shimmer of the whole solar spectrum, free–swimming crinoids one meter wide that reddened the waters with their crimson hue, treelike basket stars of the greatest beauty, sea fans from the genus Pavonacea with long stems, numerous edible sea urchins of various species, plus green sea anemones with a grayish trunk and a brown disk lost beneath the olive–colored tresses of their tentacles.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

En las pampas está la inmensidad, la soledad, el silencio, la abrumante igualdad de lugar y de tiempo: en las montañas, el hombre halla horizontes limitados, que hace suyos y toca como si fueran su propiedad; se siente acompañado por las colinas graciosas de pendientes circulares y suaves, por los picos rocallosos y salvajes, por los boscajes aislados y las mesetas de verdura; encuentra la animación bulliciosa de la naturaleza en todas partes, en las voces del torrente que se desata furioso entre las rocas de la quebrada, en los ruidos de las auras que juguetean en las selvas, en los zumbidos del viento que se choca en las cumbres sinuosas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

La Princesse se percera la main d'un fuseau; mais au lieu d'en mourir, elle tombera seulement dans un profond sommeil qui durera cent ans, au bout desquels le fils d'un Roi viendra la réveiller.
— from Popular Tales by Charles Perrault

When he came she looked away from him, and Blanche de Laon, who was near her, saw a certain tremor on her lips, and thought with victorious pleasure, though uncertain of the cause: Ça vous blesse, hein?
— from Othmar by Ouida

We ardently desired a continuation of it, and on the next night but one, she received the following addition to it:— "Moses, therefore, knowing the mysteries of the religion of the Egyptians, and having learned of their occultists the value and signification of all sacred birds and beasts, delivered like mysteries to his own people.
— from The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland

These both head in the Cascade Mountains and find their way to the sea through gaps in the Coast Range, and both drain large and fertile and beautiful valleys.
— from Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir

He had no habitual visitors, except a few men of science, such as Monge, Berthollet, Borda, Laplace, Prony, and Lagrange; several generals, as Berthier, Desaix, Lefebvre, Caffarelli, and Kleber; and a very few deputies."— Montholon , tom. iv., p. 269.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

Some foolish person, a benighted Democrat like as not, might timidly suggest that bananas were a greater public blessing when they came from Jamaica and were three for a nickel, but what patriotic citizen would listen for a moment to the criticisms of a person without any conception of the beauty and glory of the great American banana industry, without realization of the proud significance of the fact that Old Glory floats over the biggest banana hothouses in the world!
— from The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People by Woodrow Wilson

If, as Buffon declared, love lies in touch, the softness of the girl’s skin must have had the penetrating and inciting influence of the fragrance of daturas.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

So the spiritual may be brought out under different dispensations, and by different laws, while it remains always the same.
— from The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880 by Various