O deus, hunc creasti sole candidiorem, e diverso me et conjugem meum et natos meos omnes nigricantes.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

She was so completely unnerved by it, that some little time elapsed before she could summon composure enough to follow the proprietor of the Asylum to that part of the house in which the inmates were confined.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

[21] tienen salas de espera cómodas y con suficiente calefacción en los pueblos situados a considerable elevación.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

As to pelicans, kingfishers, water-hens, they came of themselves to the shores of the poultry-yard, and this little community, after some disputes, cooing, screaming, clucking, ended by settling down peacefully, and increased in encouraging proportion for the future use of the colony.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Cominos , Calantro , Sp.; Coriander , Eng. Uses.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

You call such conduct estimable and natural?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But in Holy Week and certain other great festival or penitential seasons of the Church, the great religious processions take place—floats sheathed in bunting and decked with innumerable candles in crystal shades, carrying either the altar of the Virgin or some of the many groups of figures picturing events in the life and passion of the Saviour.
— from A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee

It is here not at all uncommon to see on doors in one continued succession, “Children educated here,” “Shoes mended here,” “Foreign spirituous liquors sold here,” and “Funerals furnished here;” of all these inscriptions.
— from Travels in England in 1782 by Karl Philipp Moritz

60 Prague contains sixteen convents, every class of monk is to be found there, and though upon a much larger scale it reminds me of Friburg in Switzerland.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

[303] Rogniat, p. 147, speaking of charges, says,—"S'ils marchent, à la baïonette, ce n'est qu'un simulacre d'attaque: ils ne la croisent jamais avec celle d'un ennemi qu'ils craignent d'aborder, parcequ'ils se sentent sans défence contre ses coups, et l'un de deux partis prend la fuite avant d'en venir aux mains.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V. by Walter Scott

Draw lines of decrease of temperature from the following additional stations: Key West, Fla.; New Orleans, La.; Charleston, S. C.; El Paso, Tex.; San Diego, Cal.; Hatteras, N. C. Compare the directions of these lines on the different days.
— from Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology by Robert DeCourcy Ward

Later, a Prikase or office of direction was established, and this was followed by others empowered with the control of affairs relating respectively to carmen, Siberia, criminals, etc.
— from The Story of Moscow by Wirt Gerrare

It was proposed that the newspapers throughout the country should contribute each one dollar to a fund to be called "The Effingham Libel Fund," out of which all damages awarded the novelist were to be paid.
— from James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury