We come ere long Down to the river of blood
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

cantus et Lūnam dēdūcere temptat et faceret, sī nōn aera repulsa sonent , Tib. 1, 8, 21, magic essays to draw Luna down and would succeed if clashing brass should not resound ( 1560 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

de [3] trigo, maíz, arroz, algodón, tabaco, azúcar, de que se fabrican regaladas y exquisitas conservas; cacao, en cuyo trato tienen sus vecinos asegurada su mayor riqueza; frutas, así indianas como europeas; legumbres de todos géneros,
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

“He wanted I should speak to you about a girl he's heard about, that might come—” Ethan laid down the razor and straightened himself with a laugh.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Where money was scarce, tenants were sometimes allowed to pay in kind as a concession to their interests, and some landlords still found it convenient to receive part of their rent in grain, fowls, pigeons, fish, or a fat bull, a practice which on college estates lasted down to the very end of the seventeenth century.
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

The same author has recently published another interesting and valuable contribution, entitled “Les Derniers travaux relatifs
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

She had evidently been out walking before I arrived, for she still wore her coquette garden-hat—the chipstraw affair, with the lilac ribbons tied in a bow under her rounded chin; and a white, thin gown, most ravishing, and all bestrewn with sprigs and posies, which displayed her smooth and delicately moulded throat above the low-pinned kerchief, and her lovely arms from the creamy elbow lace down to her finger tips.
— from The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

During the present century, the Abbé Constant (Eliphas Levi), declared the Pentegram to be the key of the two worlds, and if rightly understood, endowing man with infinite power.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

Colbert entered; Louis dismissed the nurse, who closed the door as she went out.
— from The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

[190] Sophron, your bare grand neck's a tawny pillar To lean a cheek against in burning noons; Your careless eyes look deeplier than you know; You must be kept in life....
— from King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Danaë by Gordon Bottomley

Its author, who is commonly known as the Chronicler, evidently lived during the earlier part or middle of the Greek period.
— from The Makers and Teachers of Judaism From the Fall of Jerusalem to the Death of Herod the Great by Charles Foster Kent

A. —“I can at least offer you this comfort; that whereas you could not have got out of the stage half–way on the road without much inconvenience, you can easily lay down the book whenever you find it becoming tedious: if you seek for amusement only, you probably will be disappointed, because one of my chief aims has been to afford you correct information respecting the habits, condition, and character of the North American Indians and those bordering on their territory.
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir