No shuffling of feet and no stamping, either; no waggling of hips, no swinging of arms, and not a shoulder stooped.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

In my heart of hearts I care for nothing in the world now but a few churches, books—two or three, pictures—rather more, perhaps, and the light of the moon when the fresh breeze of youth (such as yours) wafts to my nostrils the scent of gardens whose flowers my old eyes are not sharp enough, now, to distinguish.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

No le salvan ni sus argucias, ni sus escondites, ni sus artimañas.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Two red-hot steamboats raging along, neck-and-neck, straining every nerve—that is to say, every rivet in the boilers—quaking and shaking and groaning from stem to stern, spouting white steam from the pipes, pouring black smoke from the chimneys, raining down sparks, parting the river into long breaks of hissing foam—this is sport that makes a body's very liver curl with enjoyment.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Que en nuestra vida americana sobran asuntos de positivo interés, lo han demostrado de antiguo, no sólo esas novelas o poemas románticos, hoy célebres, que se llaman «María» y «Amalia,» y que se deben a la pluma de dos poetas hondos y sinceros: Jorge Isaacs y José Mármol; lo demuestra también, por otro concepto, ese modelo de sátira político-social que se llama Blas Gil, [1] que sin desdeñar el sabor clásico del estilo, nos dejó como reflejo de la vida colombiana el literato-presidente José Manuel Marroquín.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The sun, himself an early riser, was up not anywhere near so early next morning as was Bess Thornton.
— from The Rival Campers Ashore; or, The Mystery of the Mill by Ruel Perley Smith

Perhaps I am not showy enough, not strong enough for the place I occupy."
— from The Colossus: A Novel by Opie Percival Read

Cleveland, Mount Zion, M. Soc., for S. A. Jos. K. Brick A., I. and N. Sch., Enfield, N. C. , 11. Collinwood, First, 15. Columbia, 5.20.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 01, January, 1900 by Various

Mes toutes les choses qe vous lessez a dire pour hounte de la char, ou pour poour de la justice de la mesoun qe lein ne la prenge requer Dieu, e de par la poeste, que nostre sire otria a sein pere, la quele nostre pere le pape lieu tenaunt a terre a otrye a la maison, e a noz sovereyns, e nous de par Dieu, e de par nostre mestre, e de tout nostre chapitre tiel pardoun come ieo vous puis fere, ieo la vous faz, de bon quer, e de bone volonte.
— from The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by C. G. (Charles Greenstreet) Addison

"Quick—with your question—with your lips, not your mind—I am not strong enough now.
— from The House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant by Will Irwin

South Sudbury, L. M. Circle, bbl. Goods, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. South Weymouth, Mrs. Joseph Dyer, for S. A., Jos. K. Brick A. I. and N. Sch., Enfield, N. C. , 25. South Weymouth, Old South, 8. Springfield, First C. of Christ, for Porto Rico , 61. Springfield, Hope, 17.89.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 01, January, 1900 by Various

Those which he left behind him at Nuremberg seem either not to have been completed, or to have been designedly spoiled by him; for they appeared to have defects which could not be ascribed to any accident.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

Nevertheless, Don could see that it apparently was a neat, sharp edge, not one of your old ragged, random edges such as might have been caused by an explosion.
— from And Then the Town Took Off by Richard Wilson

Ego autem non solum excusandum non puto, sed etiam nusquam magis pietatem ejus majestatemque demiror.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach