I wished earnestly to have got admittance, that I might have taken another leave of your favourite plane-tree, and thought of you once more beneath its shade: but I forbore to tempt the curiosity of strangers: the fishing-house in the woods, however, was still open to me; thither I went, and passed an hour, which I cannot even look back upon without emotion.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

As to the sentiments of Solomon and Jonah, they were held in utter suspense: it seemed to them that the old will would have a certain validity, and that there might be such an interlacement of poor Peter's former and latter intentions as to create endless "lawing" before anybody came by their own—an inconvenience which would have at least the advantage of going all round.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Inter canem et lupum —Between the dog and the wolf; at the twilight.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I suppose at bottom many of them were forest-fellers as well as fighters, though the Skalds talk mainly of the latter,—misleading certain critics not a little; for no nation of men could ever live by fighting alone; there could not produce enough come out of that!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

It was called Egyptian Larissa, because Cyrus the Great settled here a body of his Egyptian soldiers.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Cómo es la boca?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

El zum-zum , sedentario en esta isla, habita (si así puede decirse [3] ), en las cavidades formadas en las barrancas; sus pequeños nidos son dignos de admirarse por el modo y perfección de su labor: compónelos artísticamente con la lana o seda de la flor de calentura , aforrados de casaisaco , colocándolos en la bifurcación de las ramas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

If you have reason to doubt your own spelling, carefully read and correct every letter before you fold it.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

It took the trained mind of an engineer, Commodore A. J. Mitchell, to see value in the calcium carbonate (marble) deposits that had taken eons to form and place in such a position that man could extract large blocks from their beds; it took the indominable courage and optimism of a man like Col. C. F. Meek to see the possibilities of developing an industry that would make Colorado famous; it took the foresight and energy of the promoter, the engineer, and the mechanic; it took the architect, Harry Bacon, to see the possibilities of erecting a monument of the translucent white marble from the Yule quarries to the memory of the great statesman, Abraham Lincoln.
— from Crystal River Saga: Lore of the Colorado Rockies by Theresa V. Francis

Je suis toujour content a recevoir vos lettres, parceque vous est mon premier amour, je vous aime plus que tout dans le monde et dans le ciel exceptey le bon Dieu et la sainte Vierge.
— from Bolax, Imp or Angel—Which? by Josephine Culpeper

Suffice it to say that at length my name was so constantly en la boca de la fama , [214] that a large reward was offered for the body of Blas el Ratonero , dead or alive.
— from Excursions in the mountains of Ronda and Granada, with characteristic sketches of the inhabitants of southern Spain, vol. 1/2 by C. Rochfort‏ (Charles Rochfort) Scott

It must come to man, not like the Jewish Talmud with its seventy thousand precepts which few indeed can ever learn, but with a compendious and condensed, yet all-embracing brevity—with words that are spirit and life.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John by William Alexander

Tell this 'ere gent, Bobby, 'cause as how he wouldn't take it in if I said it myself, what I did when I was a young chap—how I was known all over London as 'the strong man,' how I dressed tight and carried two weights, each a real hundred, about with me, and as how I used to get rings of people round me by throwing up the weights and catching 'em like baby balls.
— from The Man with the Book; or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland

The old law against crime, established long before by Draco, had made death the penalty for every crime, from murder to petty theft.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek by Charles Morris