"This comes of driving 'em home," she remarked.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

He at once wheeled about, Sancho ran to take possession of his Dapple, Death and his flying squadron returned to their cart and pursued their journey, and thus the dread adventure of the cart of Death ended happily, thanks to the advice Sancho gave his master; who had, the following day, a fresh adventure, of no less thrilling interest than the last, with an enamoured knight-errant.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

7. Explorātōrēs, qui Caesarī occurrērunt, dīxērunt exercitum hostium vulneribus dēfessum sēsē in alium locum contulisse.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

5. Gallî molestê ferêbant Rômânôs agrôs vastâre. 6. Caesar sociîs imperâvit nê fînitimis suîs bellum înferrent. 7. Explorâtôrês, qui Caesarî occurrêrunt, dîxêrunt exercitum hostium vulneribus dêfessum sêsê in alium locum contulisse.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

He was only eighteen, but he was quite capable of doing everything his father had done.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The gayest butterflies float above them upon painted wings; and the whip-poor-will pours forth from the neighbouring woods, at close of dewy eve, his strange but sadly plaintive cry.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

It is a far cry from the city of Seattle in the State of Washington, U.S.A., to the little village of Sejny in the Polish government of Suwalki, but this is the jump that one must make to follow the career of Dr. Eugene Hurd, the only American surgeon attached to the Russian Red Cross working in the field in this war.
— from The Russian Campaign, April to August, 1915 Being the Second Volume of "Field Notes from the Russian Front" by Stanley Washburn

The explanation that has sometimes been given of his abstention, that it was not etiquette for a king’s son to engage in fight with a commoner, can hardly hold water; Jonathan showed no such squeamishness at Michmash; and besides, in cases of desperation etiquette has to be thrown to the winds.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

He conjured up the lad's face, and a cry of discovery escaped him.
— from The Tavern Knight by Rafael Sabatini

Ban Vota [Norbert GEORGE]; C-93 [Stanley BROWN]; Democratic Party of Curacao or DP [Errol HERNANDEZ]; E Mayoria [Aurelio PEDRO]; Forsa Korsou [Nelson NAVARRO]; Liste Ni'un Paso Atras [Nelson PIERRE]; Movemiento Patriotiko Korsou [Reginald LAK]; New Antilles Movement or MAN
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The four provincial courts of circuit and appeal were swept away, and the supervision of districts was entrusted to commissioners of divisions, each having five or six districts under his control.
— from India Under British Rule from the Foundation of the East India Company by James Talboys Wheeler

He turned, therefore, and ran as fast as he was able, till a cry of dismay escaped him.
— from Roger the Bold: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

That their youth was passing; that absence of cares may on the other side mean absence of interest; that the due supply of mere physical necessities can or does ensure health in the fullest sense of the word to eager, capable natures longing for work and “object” as well as enjoyment, never struck her.
— from The Laurel Walk by Mrs. Molesworth

Lest the reader should feel curious as to the course of Des Esseintes’ history, let us add that a serious nervous illness attacks him in his solitude, and that his doctor imperiously orders him to return to Paris and the common life.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

He no longer saw his marriage as a chain of disconnected episodes; he saw it as a drama the true meaning of which was at last revealed by the climax now upon him.
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett