The bulletins are confused, the commentaries involved.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It would be highly unpatriotic of the news agency to send him a bill in the zone of operations, and he can classify his record copies of his material RESTRICTED so that the owners of the material would have no legitimate business acquiring copies that could later be taken into court to support a claim.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

And as they came by an hermitage even by a churchyard, there came the knight Garlon invisible, and smote this knight, Perin de Mountbeliard, through the body with a spear.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

By a coincidence, the corpse of a man was washed ashore close to the figure.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

To take his cup and a few lumps of sugar and sit under the boughs and catch the coffee as it dripped down....
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

BUTTARELLI: (¡A Ciutti.) (To Ciutti) Buen carnaval.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

The effeminate consul was rejected by the West, as an indelible stain to the annals of the republic; and without invoking the shades of Brutus and Camillus, the colleague of Eutropius, a learned and respectable magistrate, 9 sufficiently represented the different maxims of the two administrations.
— 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

Would his excellency buy a coin, the contadino went on slowly, with the insinuating Roman begging whine.
— from Babylon, Volume 3 by Grant Allen

Some painters mix their finishing colour so that it is impossible to get over a panel of ordinary size before it is set under the brush, and consequently the colour will rough up.
— from Pigments, Paint and Painting: A practical book for practical men by George Terry

Well, don't bring the one to earth until you get over Uncle Sam's territory, and then maybe there will be a chance to capture them, and the goods too.
— from Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam by Victor Appleton

In the other forms, which are of a more inflammatory character, it is highly buffed and cupped; the crassamentum is small, the albuminous layer upon it is of a muddy yellow colour; and the serum, which is frequently large in proportion, is of a similar colour, or even of a slight bilious tinge; in some, there has been occasionally observed a white cloudy appearance, as if from the admixture of milk.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

The cover glasses should be absolutely clean, the cultures young (say eighteen hours old), and a diluted emulsion with distilled water must be made in a watch-glass in order to get bacilli discrete and isolated enough.
— from Bacteria Especially as they are related to the economy of nature, to industrial processes, and to the public health by Newman, George, Sir

Webster stepped quickly to the bulwarks, and called to Captain Pardoe to stand away.
— from The Golden Rock by Ernest Glanville

If not quite equal to Charlie Burton , and there are few children's stories which are so, it is a tale well calculated to sustain the writer's well-deserved reputation;— Burns and his Biographers, being a Caveat to Cavillers, or an Earnest Endeavour to clear the Cant and Calumnies which, for half a Century, have clung, like Cobwebs, round the Tomb of Robert Burns.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

And, again, when the Baptists or the Independents, or any other sectarians, unite themselves with men holding the same faith and entertaining the same opinions, there may be a sect , a combination , a persuasion , but a Church there cannot be.
— from Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Frederick William Robertson

The existence of such men is testified to from century to century, during the whole of the Middle Ages, mainly by the blame and condemnation they constantly incurred: and so it is that the best information concerning these men is not to be sought for in the [Pg 440] monuments of the gay literature, but rather in pious treatises and in the acts of Councils.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

Moreover it may in general be asked concerning this case what it is that determines the apparent place of the point A, and maketh it to appear after a constant manner sometimes nearer, at other times farther off?
— from An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision by George Berkeley