As he was yet unable to explain himself in French, he spoke and wrote to me in Latin, I answered in French, and this mingling of the two languages did not make our conversations either less smooth or lively.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In the sympathy of Colonel Singleton, he could easily lose sight of his danger; but the obdurate and collected air of the others was ominous of his fate.
— from The Spy: Condensed for use in schools by James Fenimore Cooper

The medical men had been encouraged to make requisition for every material appliance that could facilitate the cure of the sick; and paid female officers were appointed at the rate of one to each 150 or 200 beds, to superintend the giving of medicines and stimulants, and so forth: but of course so small a number, even had they been trained nurses, could do no real nursing, and could exercise little supervision over the twenty drunken or unreliable [1] pauper nurses who were under the nominal direction of each paid officer.
— from Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment by Florence Nightingale

Years hence she would doubtless be a large, well-formed, commanding woman, who could exhibit Lyons silk or Genoese 156 velvet to the best advantage, and would be considered a fine-looking, rosy, robust personage; but at present the face, which from under a small straw hat anxiously watched hers, was infinitely handsomer, more attractive, more delicate, and intellectual; and the miller’s child felt that she had little to apprehend from the merely personal charms of the wealthy ward.
— from Vashti; Or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Could ever Leto, she of the great King Beloved, be mother to so gross a thing?
— from The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides by Euripides

David s’acquitte de la commission, et le soir on festine sans souci du lendemain.
— from Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant) by Alphonse Daudet

In ten months after his arrival, he had collected eight large ships of war, four smaller for the commerce of Acapulco, and two still smaller for the protection of the intercourse with Molucca.
— from An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol 1 (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga

THE FISH IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT. LIFE STORY OF A SNAKE.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office