Perhaps his face had never before gathered so much concentrated disgust as when he turned to Mrs. Cadwallader and repeated, "Casaubon?" "Even so.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

This lady lived in the precincts of the Court, and received company every Sunday.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The maidservant who wanted to keep the barrel of one for a blowpipe received a reprimand: “ Conservare etiam sperasti, perfida?
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

He is certainly the most ungovernable horse on drill I ever mounted; and nothing but long marches and raids can effectually subdue his kicking propensities.
— from Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Willard W. Glazier

“ In appearance, some particular religion may leave the state free to shift for itself or make itself free from it, and some particular state act in the same way toward religion; but this is only in appearance, for when, for example, the North American state proclaims that the religious confession is a matter of indifference in respect to its existence, it proceeds on the assumption that there could not be any religious confession, except such an one as should include in itself that which constitutes its own proper religious force .
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

Our hearts were too full for any religious communication, except supplication, which was offered both by my dear M.Y. and myself.
— from Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley

The price paid him was five hundred dollars a month and a thousand antiquated rifles; cheap enough, surely, for a territory three times the size of Texas and as rich in natural resources as California.
— from The Last Frontier: The White Man's War for Civilisation in Africa by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

[1] (202) 483-3972 consulate(s) general: Chicago, Houston, New York, and San Francisco Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Richard CELESTE embassy: Shanti Path, Chanakyapuri 110021, New Delhi mailing address: use embassy street address telephone:
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

One singer, an exquisite tenor, took up the narrative portion in a recitativo , closing each sentence with the modulations with which many of our readers must be well acquainted.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

Ordinarily, being too hurried to invent a really clever excuse, she would assert lightly that something had happened to her carriage.
— from The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett