Quale del Bulicame esce ruscello che parton poi tra lor le peccatrici, tal per la rena giu` sen giva quello.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

IXI is a packet data network operated by European Research centers.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

M. Bernis, extraordinary royal commissioner, in consequence of these abuses, issued a proclamation which reflects disgrace on the authority from whence it emanated.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

She was a woman of about seven and twenty, sturdily built, with black eyebrows, rosy cheeks, and a friendly smile on her red lips, between which gleamed white even teeth.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.
— 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

But even Rakitin could say nothing positive about Mitya's inheritance, and confined himself to contemptuous generalities.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Only by comparison with that which goes on in me if my body performs an action when I am influenced by a motive—only by comparison, I say, with what is the inner nature of my own changes determined by external reasons, can I obtain insight into the way in which these lifeless bodies change under the influence of causes, and so understand what is their inner nature.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Under his uncle’s watchful care he received the best education Rome could give, and studied rhetoric under the great Quintilian.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The oldest articulates, the annelids, have a pair of nephridia in each segment of the body; each renal canal, or segmental canal, consists of three sections, an [233] inner funnel which opens into the body-cavity, a middle glandular section, and an external bladder that ejects the urine by contraction.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel

I know that your debates will be earnest, responsible, constructive, and to the point.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

One of our most important recruits of last July, now a responsible officer, declares he has seen but a fraction of the papers issued since his entrance; a fact indicating a censurable but easily remediable condition.
— from Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

Day after day, week after week, month after month, the postman delivered rolls of paper, little and big, each roll containing names and addresses of men and woman who protested against the waste of public money on our greedy and never-satisfied Royal House.
— from Autobiographical Sketches by Annie Besant

end poetry block end rend “Colombe’s Birth Day” is a sweet and beautiful dramatic poem, abounding in intellectual wealth.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 6, December 1849 by Various

‘You have been eating, rascal!’ cried the miser, ‘and drinking too!
— from Cruikshank's Water Colours by William Harrison Ainsworth