"Do put it away, please," Chia Lien entreated smirkingly, "and don't, on an any account, let her know about it!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

deudor y el endoso de la persona que lo negocie, se considera como un pagaré y se descuenta a un plazo variable, cuyo límite es seis meses.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[334] septimum annum post praeturam iaceret, neque petiturus umquam consulatum videretur, Q. Metellum, cuius legatus erat, summum virum et civem, cum ab eo, imperatore suo, Romam missus esset, apud populum Romanum criminatus est bellum illum ducere; si se consulem fecissent; brevi tempore aut vivum aut mortuum Iugurtham se in potestatem populi Romani redacturum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

When the drinks were brought and cigars lighted, Ed said: “Well, when I delivered the letter to Mr. Vanderbilt——” “Great Scott!”
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

There are all around many books, some quite handsome editions, some half cover'd by dust, some within reach, evidently used, (good-sized print, no type less than long primer,) some maps, the Bible, (the strong cheap edition of the English crown,) Homer, Shakspere, Walter Scott, Emerson, Ticknor's "Spanish Literature," John Carlyle's Dante, Felton's "Greece," George Sand's "Consuelo," avery choice little Epictetus, some novels, the latest foreign and American monthlies, quarterlies, and so on.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Irritábase más la piadosa señora con la energía serena de su sobrino.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

no pocas veces dan caza a los becerros, cuando los encuentran separados de sus madres, lo cual hacen
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan; Sky loured; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original: while Adam took no thought, Eating his fill; nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass feared, the more to sooth Him with her loved society; that now, As with new wine intoxicated both, They swim in mirth, and fancy that they feel Divinity within them breeding wings, Wherewith to scorn the earth: But that false fruit Far other operation first displayed, Carnal desire inflaming; he on Eve Began to cast lascivious eyes; she him As wantonly repaid; in lust they burn: Till Adam thus 'gan Eve to dalliance move.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Have I left anything behind me unseen, I go back to see it; ‘tis still on my way; I trace no certain line, either straight or crooked.—[Rousseau has translated this passage in his Emile, book v.]—Do I not find in the place to which I go what was reported to me—as it often falls out that the judgments of others do not jump with mine, and that I have found their reports for the most part false—I never complain of losing my labour: I have, at least, informed myself that what was told me was not true.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Walnut meats (cut in pieces), 1 cup As soon as the chocolate, sugar, corn syrup and milk had cooked long enough so that a little tried in cold water formed a hard ball, Betsey added the butter to the mixture before removing from the fire.
— from A Little Candy Book for a Little Girl by Waterman, Amy Harlow (Lane), Mrs.

Camp, Charles L., Earth Song: A Prologue to History , American West Publishing Co., 1970.
— from Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska by United States. National Park Service

Other basalts, however, are porphyritic , which means that they contain larger, easily seen crystals and grains of feldspar and pyroxene scattered either through a mass of the small mineral grains or through glassy material.
— from Texas Rocks and Minerals: An Amateur's Guide by Roselle M. Girard

et jus officii Admirallatus in eodem, quoad corrigendum, interpretandum, declarandum, et conservandum leges et statuta per ejus antecessores Angliæ Reges dudum ordinata ad conservandum pacem et
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

If the baby chances to be a boy, everybody is immensely pleased; if a girl, there is considerably less effusion shown.
— from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell

The Earl of Southampton must present himself with the nobles, and Sir Henry Nevill with the counsellors; like either shall be one of their rankes.
— from Diary of John Manningham Of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister‑at‑Law, 1602-1603 by John Manningham

Holmes's poetry is mostly on the colloquial level, excellent society-verse, but even in its serious moments too smart and too pretty to be taken very gravely; with a certain glitter, knowingness, and flippancy about it, and an absence of that self-forgetfulness and intense absorption in its theme which characterize the work of the higher imagination.
— from Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

“Oh, then, do forgive Fred, and let him be an artist!” cried Loo, eagerly stretching out one of her thin hands.
— from Fighting the Flames by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne