Ed ecco due da la sinistra costa, nudi e graffiati, fuggendo si` forte, che de la selva rompieno ogni rosta.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

"Off with him!" pursued Mr. Home, who certainly did look sorely crossed and annoyed—even a little bitter; "but, I suppose, if he went, Polly would pack a bundle and run after him; her heart is fairly won—won, and weaned from her old father."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Inferno: Canto XXIX La molta gente e le diverse piaghe avean le luci mie si` inebriate, che de lo stare a piangere eran vaghe.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Par ailleurs, internet m'a mise en contact avec d'autres poètes, dont certains fort intéressants… Cela rompt le cercle de la solitude et permet d'échanger des idées.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

LIBERIA Boutilly, V. Le caféier de Libéria, sa culture et sa manipulation.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Una vez que se reponen, conocida y hasta celebrada la causa de la sorpresa que han experimentado, para hallar entonces motivo de charla, porque las mujeres no callan sino cuando duermen, si bien las hay que hasta hablan en sueños, pregunta una la hora que es; otra añade que tiene frío; y alguna, sintiendo así como
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It was as remarkable as it was characteristic that the one sentence he uttered was in thankfulness:— "Thank God I am not married: what would she have done in the poverty now coming upon me!" Oak raised his head, and wondering what he could do, listlessly surveyed the scene.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Then from the cold crust one of that sad crew Demanded loud: ‘Spirits, for whom they hold 110 The inmost room, so truculent were you, Back from my face let these hard veils be rolled,
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

v 1 [A2; c16] drink liquor straight.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I wish I could do like she does!”
— from The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Katharine Ellis Barrett

Co. (PWH); 28Sep67; R418454. CLARK, DONALD L. SEE Columbia Pottery, 1939.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

San Martín, con su alto buen sentido, dándose cuenta clara de la situación y de sus deberes para con ella, se inmoló en aras de una ambición implacable, que era una fuerza eficiente, y cuya dilatación fatal era indispensable al triunfo de su causa.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

"You always make me see things, Cousin Delight," Leslie said.
— from A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

to depth of exploitation exclusive economic zone: 200 NM territorial sea: 12 NM Climate: tropical; semiarid where mountains in east cut off trade winds Terrain: mostly rough and mountainous Elevation extremes: lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: Chaine de la Selle 2,680 m Natural resources: bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, marble, hydropower Land use: arable land: 20% permanent crops: 13% permanent pastures: 18% forests and woodland: 5% other: 44% (1993 est.)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

They colonise distant lands, subdue their weaker neighbours, 232 and the mother state becomes a centre of dominion, of luxury and its attendant arts.
— from The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times by Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir