Christiana answered, "We are come from whence Christian did come, and upon the same errand as he; to wit, to be, if it shall please you, graciously admitted by this gate into the way that leads to the Celestial City.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Law himself, and the Chevalier de Conflans, a gentleman of the regent’s household, were despatched in a post-chaise with orders to bring the ex-chancellor to Paris along with them.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Its ruins are still to be seen on the summit of a hill surrounded with rocks, forming a natural wall between Corunna del Conde and Pennalda de Castro.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

—¿Se conocen muchos tipos comerciales de café americano?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Almost every day he passed before the Cafe des Colonies, and often he could distinguish through the window the figure of the little black-skinned maid serving “bocks” or glasses of brandy to the sailors of the port.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Under the Daendels plan, each native family was required to keep 1000 coffee trees in bearing on village lands, and to give to the government two-fifths of the crop, delivered cleaned and sorted, at the government store.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Now, said Pantagruel, thou speakest naturally, and so let him go, for the poor Limousin had totally bewrayed and thoroughly conshit his breeches, which were not deep and large enough, but round straight cannioned gregs, having in the seat a piece like a keeling’s tail, and therefore in French called, de chausses a queue de merlus.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Mon avenir personnel sur internet est cependant légèrement distinct de celui de CyLibris, au sens où même si CyLibris disparaît, je resterai actif sur l'internet à l'avenir, cela ne fait pas de doute pour moi.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

So, when by hollow shores the fisher-train Sweep with their arching nets the roaring main, And scarce the meshy toils the copious draught contain, All naked of their element, and bare, The fishes pant, and gasp in thinner air; Wide o'er the sands are spread the stiffening prey, Till the warm sun exhales their soul away.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Illustration 211 shows a Chippendale double chair and one of four arm-chairs, formerly owned by Governor John Wentworth, whose household goods were confiscated and sold at auction by the Federal government, in 1776.
— from Furniture of the Olden Time by Frances Clary Morse

They also contain definite compounds, and may contain an excess of one of the metals.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Taking this into consideration, as well as the rapidity of production, the conception, amid the sordid surroundings of the King’s Bench Prison, of such cleverly drawn characters as Aurelia Darnel, Captain Crowe, and his nephew, Tom Clarke, the attorney of the amorous heart, is passing wonderful.
— from Tobias Smollett by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

de M____, who, at sixty, was brought here, because she happened to be the daughter of Count L____, who has been dead these thirty years!—The graces and silver accents of Madame de B____, might have assisted in beguiling severer captivity; and the Countess de C____, and her charming daughters (the eldest of whom is not to be described in the common place of panegyric), who, though they have borne their own afflictions with dignity, have been sensible to the misfortunes of others, and whom I must, in justice, except from all the imputations of meanness or levity, which I have sometimes had occasion to notice in those who, like themselves, were objects of republican persecution, have essentially contributed to diminish the horrors of confinement.—I reckon it likewise among my satisfactions, that, with the exception of the Marechalle de Biron,* and General O'Moran, none of our fellow-prisoners have suffered on the scaffold.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs

[4] The first report, based upon a survey made in Newcastle County, Delaware, contains among the conclusions these that are of special interest to the student of rural life: "Five-tenths of 1 per cent of 3,793 rural school children examined in New Castle County are definitely feeble-minded and in need of institutional treatment.
— from Rural Problems of Today by Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford) Groves

“We are allowed to criticise, I believe,” remarked the Comte de C. after a pause which followed these remarks.
— from Secrets of the Sword by Bazancourt, César Lecat, baron de