Y en virtud de esta cavilación sacó del bolsillo avíos de escribir, redactó una carta, púsole el sobre, pególo con un poco de pan mascado, y echóse a reír de una manera diabólica.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

My lord, remember that, to Europe's shame, The Christian isle of Rhodes, from whence you came, Was lately lost, and you were stated 65 here To be at deadly enmity with Turks.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

CHAPTER 64 T ossing to and fro upon his hot, uneasy bed; tormented by a fierce thirst which nothing could appease; unable to find, in any change of posture, a moment’s peace or ease; and rambling, ever, through deserts of thought where there was no resting-place, no sight or sound suggestive of refreshment or repose, nothing but a dull eternal weariness, with no change but the restless shiftings of his miserable body, and the weary wandering of his mind, constant still to one ever-present anxiety—to a sense of something left undone, of some fearful obstacle to be surmounted, of some carking care that would not be driven away, and which haunted the distempered brain, now in this form, now in that, always shadowy and dim, but recognisable for the same phantom in every shape it took: darkening every vision like an evil conscience, and making slumber horrible—in these slow tortures of his dread disease, the unfortunate Richard lay wasting and consuming inch by inch, until, at last, when he seemed to fight and struggle to rise up, and to be held down by devils, he sank into a deep sleep, and dreamed no more.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Each organ has individualized, as it were, the portion of the soul which it contains, and which has thus become a distinct entity.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

‘I know what life is before you, and if you was my bitterest and deadliest enemy, I could wish you nothing worse.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

When the Parliament of Religions was called in Chicago, the successors of Nichiren, with their characteristic high-church modesty, promptly sent letters to America, warning the world against all other Japanese Buddhists, and denouncing especially those coming to speak in the Parliament, as misrepresenting the true doctrines of Buddha.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

If in these last propositions I have succeeded in giving perhaps only a preliminary expression, intelligible to few at first, to this difficult representation, I must not here desist from stimulating my friends to a further attempt, or [Pg 161] cease from beseeching them to prepare themselves, by a detached example of our common experience, for the perception of the universal proposition.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Next day, after I had breakfasted and duly embraced my brother, I set out in a nice carriage with the Abbe Alfani, Le Duc preceding me on horseback, and I reached Naples at a time when everybody was in a state of excitement because an eruption of Vesuvius seemed imminent.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The main principle of the Kula exchange has been laid down in the before-mentioned chapter; the Kula exchange has always to be a gift , followed by a counter-gift ; it can never be a barter, a direct exchange with assessment of equivalents and with haggling.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Mr. Rushworth is quite right, I think, in meaning to give it a modern dress, and I have no doubt that it will be all done extremely well.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Whatever might, by a different experience, have been rendered different—so this criterion contends—must itself be dependent on experience, and so empirical.
— from An essay on the foundations of geometry by Bertrand Russell

Although the bacilli are distributed everywhere, certain organs, as the brain and muscles, are usually exempt, because in these the conditions are not favorable to further growth of the bacilli.
— from Disease and Its Causes by W. T. (William Thomas) Councilman

Its commander sent out a man who, pretending to be a deserter, entered the British camp and informed Colonel St. Leger that General Burgoyne had been defeated and his army cut to pieces, and that General Arnold, with two thousand men, was advancing to raise the siege.
— from True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Only the [Pg 313] Grand Army flag, borrowed and draped elaborately above the stage, showed faded and thin against the brightness of the cheesecloth, but kept its dignity and kept up its claim to homage still.
— from The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton

In view of this progress of the whites, nothing seemed to remain to the native savage but to be forced from his loved haunts, and to lose his cherished possessions, or to arouse, and by a desperate effort of strength and valor to regain all that he once owned.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

All the girls looked up and bowed as Dolly entered, but no one spoke.
— from Hope Benham: A Story for Girls by Nora Perry

During the year each pupil in the elementary class must complete nine certificate sheets, of uniform size (15 x 22 inches), one each of geometrical problems, blackboard and dictation exercise, enlarged copy in outline, conventionalized flowers in a geometrical figure, applied designs, outline drawing from objects, outline drawing from flowers, historical ornament, botanical analysis.
— from Work for Women by George J. Manson