Rosarito, sentándose junto a una de las vidrieras que a la huerta se abrían, miró a su primo, diciéndole 10 con la muda oratoria de los ojos: —Primo, siéntate aquí junto a mí, y dime todo eso que tienes que decirme.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Januarii ferias celebrant, ut angores et animi solicitudines propitiata depellat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Our Amazon's purpose was staggered by this providential incident; the sound of her native language, so unexpectedly heard, and so pathetically delivered, had a surprising effect upon her imagination; and the faculty of reflection did not forsake her in such emergency.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I was no longer that timid, and rather bashful than modest man, who neither dared to present himself, nor utter a word; whom a single pleasantry disconcerted, and whose face was covered with a blush the moment his eyes met those of a woman.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And perhaps you won't think poor old Gus such an awful ass as some people do.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Thus I see before me order and design in nature, and need not resort to speculation to assure myself of their reality, but to explain them I have to presuppose a Deity as their cause; and then since the inference from an effect to a definite cause is always uncertain and doubtful, especially to a cause so precise and so perfectly defined as we have to conceive in God, hence the highest degree of certainty to which this pre-supposition can be brought is that it is the most rational opinion for us men.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

A susceptible person does not like to [200] indulge his tastes in this kind, without the apology of some trivial necessity: he goes to see a wood-lot, or to look at the crops, or to fetch a plant or a mineral from a remote locality, or he carries a fowling-piece, or a fishing-rod.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We may as well conclude there is no art of physic, because all sick persons do not recover.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

suitor, party to a suit; plaintiff, defendant, litigant &c. 938.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Now, the rotten diseases of the south, the guts-griping ruptures, catarrhs, loads o’ gravel in the back, lethargies, cold palsies, raw eyes, dirt-rotten livers, wheezing lungs, bladders full of imposthume, sciaticas, lime-kilns i’ th’ palm, incurable bone-ache, and the rivelled fee-simple of the tetter, take and take again such preposterous discoveries!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Mother—father,” he said, after a short pause, “don’t cry.
— from The Coxswain's Bride; also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Apostles: And that it was by vertue of this act of the Church of Antioch, that they were Apostles, S. Paul declareth plainly (Rom. 1.1.)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

You know how Archimedes when threatened with death by the vandalistic invaders of his country raised his head and said 'Please do not disturb my circles' and nothing more.
— from The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga Including the Practices and Exercises of Concentration, both Objective and Subjective, and Active and Passive Mentation, an Elucidation of Maya, Guru Worship, and the Worship of the Terrible, also the Mystery of Will-Force by Mukerji, A. P., swámi

After a short pause Danny started to whistle “La Marseillaise”—Janet playing the accompaniment on the piano very softly—as the children joined in, coming out with startling effect with the words: “To arms!
— from The Liberty Girl by Rena I. Halsey

I met her almost everywhere—but chiefly at St. Phillipe de Roule—for several months without being aware that she is our neighbor, that her hotel adjoins ours.
— from Monsieur de Camors — Complete by Octave Feuillet

No currents or sudden freshets carrying hard materials with them, even moving along straight paths down hill-sides or mountain-slopes, have ever been known to draw any such lines.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

In January, between sixty and seventy persons died from small-pox every day.
— from My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly