La inmigración proporciona continuamente a Buenos Aires un gran número de hombres adultos, siempre bastante considerable en relación al de las mujeres indígenas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

A small fish was in the frying-pan, crisp and brown and tempting, and one could see that Marget was not expecting such respectable food as this.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

He does not, however, differentiate between national customs and beliefs, and those which have come in with the Muhammadan religion.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex? CLAUDIO.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In 1781 John Stachan, then proprietor of the Queen's Head tavern, became landlord of the Merchants coffee house, and he promised in a public announcement "to pay attention not only as a Coffee House, but as a tavern, in the truest; and to distinguish the same as the City Tavern and Coffee House, with constant and best attendance.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Our men therefore wandered on the shore to find out some fresh water near the sea, and I walked alone about a mile on the other side, where I observed the country all barren and rocky.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Under cover of this cannonade advanced Bonaparte at the head of his Imperial Guards; cavalry in a column on the left flank, and the Grenadiers of the Guard on their right flank.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Numerous attempts were made to produce a form of paddlewheel steamer which would carry a broadside armament comparable with that which a sailing vessel of the same burthen 233 would bear.
— from The Evolution of Naval Armament by Frederick Leslie Robertson

Is there not amongst all the multitudinous Philippines some desert island where the people trained in the Spanish courts and all their breed could be deported, where they might set up a court, and bring actions against each other and cheat and lie and forge till they die?
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

This Apollon of theirs, in his graven images (of which there are many), carries a bow and arrows, fiery darts of the wicked , another point in common between him and Apollyon, in the Pilgrim’s Progress .
— from In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories by Andrew Lang

Bay and boats, shipping, palaces, canals and bridges, all coloured in such wonderful colours, brilliant in such marvellous lights and shades, as northern lands do not know, though they have their own.
— from The End of a Coil by Susan Warner

'Tis not that a wise man may not live everywhere content, and be alone in the very crowd of a palace; but if it be left to his own choice, the schoolman will tell you that he should fly the very sight of the crowd: he will endure it if need be; but if it be referred to him, he will choose to be alone.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 06 by Michel de Montaigne

The corral was a crude affair, built at the minimum of expense, of crooked cottonwood poles, willow sticks and brush interlaced.
— from The Fighting Shepherdess by Caroline Lockhart

The proposed conference It remains for the Government of India to deal with the allegation that His Excellency summarily rejected the proposal for a conference, although the terms put forward by the conference at Bombay and accepted by the Working Committee of the Congress were quite in keeping with His Excellency's own requirements as indicated in his speech at Calcutta.
— from Gandhi and Anarchy by Sankaran Nair, C. (Chettur), Sir

He quite forgot he had begun with my mother, and, after he had kissed Beta , got confused, and began all over again.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 107, December 1, 1894 by Various