I don't know whether you are aware that you are Comtesse de Combray, and that the Chapter owes you a due.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Falling away C. Detested C. Disfigured C. Smallcut C. Diaphanous C. Disabled C. Disordered C. Unworthy C. Forceless C. Latticed C. Checked C. Censured C. Ruined C. Mangled C. Cut C. Exasperated C. Turned over C. Rifled C.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

ὁ παντελὴς ἤδη καὶ μεμυημένος (with the context), Dion Chrys.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

This gesture, sign, symbol, concept, or representation in which a common object is not merely indicated, but in a sense created, Durkheim calls a "collective representation."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It is, of course, far from infallible; it cannot dominate circumstances, and has no discursive knowledge; but it is presumably true, and what it foreknows is always essentially possible.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The people in great flocks and companies daily came to hear his voice, as the most melodious sound and tune of Orpheus' harp, insomuch, that oftentimes when he was preaching, the church would be so full, that none could enter further than the doors thereof.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

assize, eyre; wardmote[obs3], burghmote[obs3]; barmote[obs3]; superior courts of Westminster; court of record, court oyer and terminer[Law], court assize, court of appeal, court of error; High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Star Chamber; Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty; Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court[obs3], Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court; sessions; quarter sessions, petty sessions; court-leet[Fr], court-baron, court of pie poudre[Fr], court of common council; board of green cloth.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Neither business, nor pleasure, nor flattery, could defend Caracalla from the stings of a guilty conscience; and he confessed, in the anguish of a tortured mind, that his disordered fancy often beheld the angry forms of his father and his brother rising into life, to threaten and upbraid him.
— 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

Nada más conviene añadir acerca de este personaje, sino que cuando 10 sintió el trote largo de las cabalgaduras que corrían hacia la calle del Condestable, se arregló el manteo, enderezó el sombrero, que no estaba del todo bien puesto en la venerable cabeza, y marchando hacia la casa, murmuró— —Vamos a ver ese prodigio.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

He falls under the temptation to make a conventionally desirable conclusion, the "pleasant ending" already animadverted against, which is supposed to be the constant petition of the theater Philistine.
— from How to See a Play by Richard Burton

James Sutherland , University College, London H. T. Swedenberg, Jr. , University of California, Los Angeles CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis , Clark Memorial Library
— from A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Thomas Warton

7, p. 54): “Après des détails si clairs et si positifs, comment est-il possible que ce même Strabon, bouleversant toute la chronologie, fasse arriver les Minyens dans la Triphylie sous la conduite de Chloris, mère de Nestor?”
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote

He was very comfortably dressed, clean as a new franc piece, displaying linen of dazzling whiteness, and wearing silk gloves and leather gaiters.
— from The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau

Now dauncen lusty Venus children dere,” &c.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

After bruising our heads against the cruel trees, we retraced our steps, and after going some distance one of us ascended a tree to take bearings, when crash, crash, down came the tree with its living burden, who received a severe shaking, but was not much the worse for his mishap.
— from Two Years Among the Savages of New Guinea. With Introductory Notes on North Queensland. by W. D. Pitcairn

"You Chinese devil" ( Chung kweitze ), I said in Chinese, and then I assailed him in English.
— from An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by George Ernest Morrison

And hosts of many men, Hunters that bore the shield, Went on the track of those who steered their boat Unseen to leafy banks of Simois, On her account who came, Dire cause of strife with bloodshed in her train.
— from Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments by Aeschylus