—Acepto la idea, pues soy muy dado a [5] viajar, y más
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

He sat down, looking intently at me, and listened in profound silence to all I had to tell.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Colfabias , a Latinized Irish phrase signifying the closet of decency, applied as a slang term to a place of resort in Trinity College, Dublin.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Phr. : in to apert (= Lat. in palam ), S2.—OF. apert ; Lat. apertus , pp. of aperire , a verb with ā = ab , prefix.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

To Cecil and Lucy it promised something quite different—personal love.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

And if our infancy is longer than theirs, our lives are longer in proportion; so that all things are in this respect fairly equal; though there are other rules to be considered regarding the duration of the first period of life, and the number of young, which do not affect the present subject.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The alteration is slight; the position of Suania, between Chazaria and Lazica, is perfectly suitable; and the name was still used in the xith century, (Cedren.
— 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

"Is it true that they always laugh in Paris?" said Candide.
— from Candide by Voltaire

"A lesson in politeness," suggested Mr. Hall, who was ever for peace; "not an example of rudeness."
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

That other recensions were at one time in existence is probable from the variations in the Ancient Versions, the oldest of which, namely, the Greek or Septuagint, was made, at least in part, some two centuries before the Christian era.
— from Addresses on the Revised Version of Holy Scripture by C. J. (Charles John) Ellicott

At least, I presume so.
— from A Gamble with Life by Silas K. (Silas Kitto) Hocking

The "Alabama" lay in port some days.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

--As vegetables as a class are low in protein, so are they low in fat.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

The heap, instead of increasing, diminishes daily, and leaves its possessor so much more unhappy, as, not having been able to confine his expences to a large revenue, he will still less be able to live contentedly on a small one.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

The rest of the ants considered this an insult to the whole community, and condemned her to wear a muzzle and live in perpetual solitude.
— from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Second Series by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

About one page of the text will be sufficient for a lesson if properly studied, and by this means a much greater amount of information will be retained than if larger space is rapidly passed over.
— from School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time by John W. (John Wheeler) Moore

i. p. 245— “Abbas Westm’ finem fecit cum R. p decem libr ’p pdon’ hend’ de tnsgr’ quam Walts quondam abbas loci illius pdecessor suus fecit adquir’ sibi et domui sue in feodo laicum feodum in Knyhtebrugge, Padyngton, Eye, et Westburn et illud ingred’ sine licene’.”
— from Paddington: Past and Present by William Robins