“Mr. Knightley,” said Emma, trying to be lively, but really confused—“I am in a very extraordinary situation.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

rama f bough, limb, branch. ramo m twig, spray, nosegay; Domingo de R—— s Palm Sunday.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Innumerable commonplace men are debating, are talking everywhere their commonplace doctrines, which they have learned by logic, by rote, at second-hand: to that kind of man all this is still nothing.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

At that day Montgomery Street was, as now, the business street, extending from Jackson to Sacramento, the water of the bay leaving barely room for a few houses on its east side, and the public warehouses were on a sandy beach about where the Bank of California now stands, viz., near the intersection of Sansome and California, Streets.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

My dear Lily, you are not a child to be led by the hand!" "No—nor to be lectured, Bertha, really; if that's what you are doing to me now.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The brave sufferer refused to purchase liberty, though liberty to him would have been life, by recognizing the authority which had confined him.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Queen Galaxa seated on her crystal throne bids Lord Bulger rise!”
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

If they are not allowed to have reason sufficient to govern their own conduct—why, all they learn—must be learned by rote!
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

On one face of the stone was cut the letter F., on the other was a D.; we stood on what, till a year ago, was the boundary line between Republic and Empire.
— from Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton

Lieutenant X——'s account of the work he had charge of in the Emden shows Von Müller in a better light, but reveal a terrible callousness and negligence on the part of his medical officers.
— from Stories of the Ships by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

Cruelty to animals is not only punished by law, but reprobated, we may believe—in spite of occasional brutalities—by general public opinion.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

“Weapon shapely, naked, wan, Head from the mother’s bowels drawn, Wooded flesh and metal bone, limb only one and lip only one, Gray blue leaf by red-heat grown, helve produced from a little seed sown, Resting the grass amid and upon, To be leaned and to lean on.”
— from Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers by Horatio Winslow

I want a suitable companion; you are all lusty and strong; but I, as you see, am weak; I choose, therefore, rather to come behind, lest, by reason of my many infirmities, I should be both a burden to myself and to you.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Fifty-five millions of American people (in 1884), over an area nearly as large as the entire continent of Europe, carry on their exchanges by ocean, by lake, by river, by rail, without the exactions of the tax-gatherer, without the detention of the custom house, without even the recognition of State lines.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine