They merely express, in general terms, actual relations springing from an existing class struggle, from a historical movement going on under our very eyes.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

She knew she would die like an early, colourless, scentless flower that the end of the winter puts forth mercilessly.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

"If a resolute, sanguine, active and energetic creature, such as the baker, fail to achieve this business, how can a lymphatic wretch like me hope to accomplish it?
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

But though the judgment of sober reason and experience concerning such projects has always been extremely unfavourable, that of human avidity has commonly been quite otherwise.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

A estos comerciantes se dirigen los comisionistas para pedirles muestras del grano.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

And master's babirusa would be ensconced in its cage at the zoo in the Botanical Gardens, and it would have attracted every curiosity seeker in town!"
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

[A; a12] estimate, consider s.t. carefully.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Συμπάσχω, ( σύν & πάσχω ) f. πείσομαι, to suffer with, sympathise, 1 Co. 12.26; to suffer as another, endure corresponding suffferings, Ro. 8.17.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

So might an industrious fox or bear make up his account of chickens or stray travellers with an eye to his cubs, not to disparage by that word the three raw-visaged, lank, and buttoned-up maidens who dwell with the parent Vholes in an earthy cottage situated in a damp garden at Kennington.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

SOUTH AFRICA @South Africa:Geography Location: Southern Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Geographic coordinates: 29 00 S, 24 00 E Map references: Africa Area: total: 1,219,912 sq km land: 1,219,912 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Prince Edward Islands (Marion Island and Prince Edward Island) Area - comparative: slightly less than twice the size of Texas Land boundaries: total : 4,750 km border countries: Botswana 1,840 km, Lesotho 909 km, Mozambique 491 km, Namibia 855 km, Swaziland 430 km, Zimbabwe 225 km Coastline: 2,798 km Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive economic zone : 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: mostly semiarid; subtropical along east coast; sunny days, cool nights Terrain: vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain Elevation extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Newt Spooner was tough-fibered, and his recovery, as any eye could see, would now be speedy and complete.
— from The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck

“He is an escaped convict,” said Monsieur Camusot, diffidently.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Nothing I or anybody else can say or do is possible to redeem this generation.
— from The Socialist by Guy Thorne

Until the moment when I placed my mouth in his World, he had neither seen me, nor heard anything except confused sounds beating against, what I called his side, but what he called his INSIDE or STOMACH; nor had he even now the least conception of the region from which I had come.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott

He drank two cups of thick, black coffee, and lighted an enormous cigar, sitting with his elbows on the table and his chin in his hands, looking with dreamy eyes at the guests who one by one filled the dining-room.
— from The Blood of the Arena by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez