5 El soldado, o sea el corpúsculo, al desprenderse, después de un rompan filas , de la masa en que ha tenido vida regular y a veces sublime, suele conservar algunas de las cualidades peculiares del ejército.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The necessity of keeping to his text prevented his indulgence in the convolutions and divagations dictated by his exuberant fancy when writing on his own account.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I am convinced, indeed, in spite of Liputin’s cynical and despairing doubts, that he really had two or three other quintets; for instance, in Petersburg and Moscow, and if not quintets at least colleagues and correspondents, and possibly was in very curious relations with them.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Also in my friends, I discover by their productions their inward inclinations; not by arranging this infinite variety of so diverse and unconnected actions into certain species and chapters, and distinctly distributing my parcels and divisions under known heads and classes; “Sed neque quam multae species, nec nomina quae sint, Est numerus.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

To amuse these ruffians our shopkeepers used to make the cats and dogs drink vodka, or tie a kerosene-tin to a dog's tail, and whistle to make the dog come tearing along the street with the tin clattering after him, and making him squeal with terror and think he had some frightful monster hard at his heels, so that he would rush out of the town and over the fields until he could run no more.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Well then, setting aside mercenary people, who, of course, are dreadful, do you think seriously that women who have committed what the world calls a fault should never be forgiven?
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

MAHOUDEAU (Madame), in 1840, in company with Madame Cardinal, her friend, created a disturbance during one of Bobino's performances at a small theatre near the Luxembourg, where Olympe Cardinal was playing.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Then, lifting his face to the sky, he cried aloud, "Défago, Défago!
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

Now they were passing along the first terrace; still the divisions were incessant down by the gate—still the chanting continued, a dismal dissonance in the distance, a horrible discord near by.
— from The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01 by Lew Wallace

They held Ypres by a thread, and when it seemed that nothing could keep it, one cold and dreadful day along the Menin road came up their reinforcements.
— from The Dark Tower by Phyllis Bottome

Yet this is precisely what Cicero and Demosthenes did; it was thus that Pericles ruled the Athenian Democracy, and Æschines all but overturned the giant strength of his immortal adversary.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 422, December 1850 by Various

IMAGE END Battle-flag, carried at Drumclog; drum, seen at Lochgoin, said to have been in use at the battle of Bothwell Bridge; Captain Paton's Bible, which he gave his wife from the scaffold; his sword, which he wielded with terrible effect; and a powder horn used in those times.
— from Sketches of the Covenanters by J. C. (James Calvin) McFeeters

They usually contrived a double division of the scene; one part was for some time concealed from the spectator, which produced surprise and variety.
— from Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by W. F. (William Francis) Dawson