"Why need you be so modest?" observed Chia Chen; "Doctor, do please walk in at once to see our son's wife, for I look up, with full reliance, to your lofty intelligence to dispel my solicitude!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Como usted lo ve, asistimos a un deterioro regular y constante del dominio público.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

In proportion as a nation assumes a democratic condition of society, and as communities display democratic propensities, it becomes more and more dangerous to connect religion with political institutions; for the time is coming when authority will be bandied from hand to hand, when political theories will succeed each other, and when men, laws, and constitutions will disappear, or be modified from day to day, and this, not for a season only, but unceasingly.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

—¿Va a casa de doña Perfecta?—preguntó Ramos.—Allí he estado hace un momento; no quise detenerme.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

dieu , m. , être suprême; créateur; divinité du paganisme.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

[Bp. Hornel]; labor omnia vincit "labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven" [Lat][Vergil][Carlyle]; le travail du corps delivre des peines de l'esprit [Fr][fr]; manu forti[Lat]; ora et labora[Lat].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

En la casa de doña Perfecta también había silencio.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

—Sí; y usted—repuso el caballero con alegría—será el criado de doña Perfecta, que viene a buscarme a este 30 apeadero para conducirme a Orbajosa.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

N. clergy, clericals, ministry, priesthood, presbytery, the cloth, the desk. clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant[obs3], pastor, shepherd, minister; father, father in Christ; padre, abbe, cure; patriarch; reverend; black coat; confessor. dignitaries of the church; ecclesiarch[obs3], hierarch[obs3]; ebdomarius[Lat]; eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan[obs3], dean, subdean[obs3], archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary[obs3], beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate; deacon, deaconess; preacher, reader, lecturer; capitular[obs3]; missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Much it pleased her for awhile to hear the bright and witty speeches that were bandied to and fro; then Sam Spruce, a colored boy of about twenty years, in white short sack, black cotton trousers, and white apron, came gliding over the side lawn, tray in hand, and on it were small glasses, a crystal pitcher, a silver cake dish, delicate plates, and very small, snowy napkins.
— from Maid Sally by Harriet A. (Harriet Anna) Cheever

Sir Frederick Wedmore is such an artist in words, so punctilious in the niceties of their employment, that to find him writing a story of modern stage-life, and using for it—with, as it were, a certain delicate deliberation—phrases peculiar to the jargon of the class of which it treats, gives one a series of small shocks.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, May 24, 1916 by Various

iv, xiii, xiv, xx, xxi.—Ayala, Crónica de Don Pedro I, año III, cap.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

"Come down, Davy," pleaded Janet, "don't stand and hear the poor birds beat themselves to death.
— from Janet of the Dunes by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

Mwth i rhydd, arwydd yngwascar, Mal Arthur cein fodur cibddar, Cann a chann; a chein wyllt a gwar, Cant a chant a chynt nog adar Adar weinidawg, caeawg Cynran drud, Dreig Prydein pedryddan, Addod Lloegr, lluossawg am bann, Addaf hir in herwydd calan, Adwedd teyrnedd tir nis rhan, A dan ser ys sef i amcan, Adnes
— from Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evan Evans

We takes de leaves and cures dem, den place dem on de board and put honey 'tween 'em.
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration

[1518] Mémoires et correspondance de Du Plessis-Mornay , I, 36-38 (Paris, 1824).
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

Dey takes four sticks and lays poles in de crotches, den dey puts branches crossways.
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration