—¿Cómo se va, pues, a Tegucigalpa, la capital de Honduras?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

He made this seem likely, so ceaselessly did he talk of her charms and of her wit; so much so, that Binet once roughly answered him— “What does it matter to me since I’m not in her set?”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

They sought Kishkindhá's gate and stood Concealed by trees in densest wood, Sugríva, to the fight addressed, More closely drew his cinctured vest, And raised a wild sky-piercing shout [pg 339] To call the foeman Báli out.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Like Socrates I, too, had a demon to whom I referred my doubtful counsels, doing his will, and obeying blindly when I felt a voice within me telling me to forbear.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[4339] in which the seeds of cumin, rue, carrots, dill, have been boiled.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

1633-69 , A18 , A25 , B , C , Cy , D , H40 , H49 , L74 , Lec , N , O'F , P , S , TCC ( torn out of TCD ): Amoris Dieta.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

114 7 Daba diente con diente : 'her teeth chattered.'
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

In the ages of victory, as often as the senate decreed some distant conquest, the consul denounced hostilities, by unbarring, in solemn pomp, the gates of the temple of Janus.
— 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

generally 43 beare] hear 1669 this: Q: this, 1633-69 44 With his tongue, 1669 , Q: With his tongue: 1633-54 47 or] and Cy , D , H49 ,
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

He had cooled down, he was himself again: and after a moment he added, “I will write a little note which you can take,” with once more the smile that Betty thought silly floating across his face.
— from The Sorceress, v. 3 of 3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The children danced hard, with intervals for tea and refreshment; and as seven o'clock struck, there was a transformation scene.
— from The Professional Aunt by Mary C. E. Wemyss

Numbers of the red-skins were constantly dancing, hooting, and 182 yelling around the fort, many of whom were shot by the old men of the garrison, who had ascended to the attic of the largest house and cut holes in the roof.
— from A History, of the War of 1812-15 Between the United States and Great Britain by Rossiter Johnson

The appearance of M. de la Chtre was something like a coup de thatre; for, despite our curiosity, I had no idea we should ever see him, thinking that nothing could detach him from the service of the French princes.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

I could drop him wi’ one hand down Garstang’s Copper-hole—a place where th’ beck slithered ower th’ edge on a rock, and fell wi’ a bit of a whisper into a pit as no rope
— from Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People by Rudyard Kipling

Still, if she finds--as she undoubtedly will find--that some natural barriers and hindrances remain at last, and that she can no more do man's whole work in the world than he can do hers, why should she complain?
— from Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

"I believe it's Bad Pete coming," declared Harry, as he made out, a quarter of a mile behind them, the form of a man mounted on a small, wiry mustang.
— from The Young Engineers in Colorado; Or, At Railroad Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

In his old calm despair he turned away from the Crucified, and at the same moment he fancied that the noisome mist, the terrible stench of the burning had reached him even here in this last refuge.
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

- 66 - The Spanish custom, when speaking or writing to an individual, of using the Christian name instead of the surname, is very pleasing; and as I am a great lover of the romantic, it will necessarily follow, that I am more charmed with Don Carlos, Don Henrico, Don Guillermo, &c. than plain Mr. Smith, Mr. Wilkins, and Mr. Tomkins; and Doña Clara, Doña Dominga, and Doña Saturnina, than Miss Williams, Miss White, and Miss Brown.
— from A Five Years' Residence in Buenos Ayres, During the years 1820 to 1825 Containing Remarks on the Country and Inhabitants; and a Visit to Colonia Del Sacramento by George Thomas Love