Capitan Basilio approaches one of the townsmen and asks, “Do you know which cock Capitan Tiago is going to bring?” “I don’t know, sir.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

And that's a less sin, to my mind, to making men's hearts so hard that they'll not do a kindness to them as needs it, or help on the right and just cause, though it goes again the strong hand.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

And every time I come out of the theatre more conservative than I go in.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But neither individual nations nor men can thrive when severed from natural intercourse with their kind; whatever the native vigor of constitution, it requires healthful surroundings, and freedom to draw to itself from near and from far all that is conducive to its growth and strength and general welfare.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Contented in my rugged cot, Your lordly towers I envy not; Though rude our clime and coarse our cheer, True independence greets you here; Amid these forests, dark and wild, Dwells honest labour's hardy child.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

To express our thoughts we must put words together,—we must combine them into groups; and such groups have settled meanings (just as words have), established (like the meanings of single words) by the customs or habits of the particular language that we are speaking or writing.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

We halted above the point on the river Kimooenim to Smoke with the Indians who had collected there in great numbers to view us, here we met our 2 Chiefs who left us two days ago and proceeded on to this place to inform those bands of our approach and friendly intentions towards all nations &c. we also met the 2 men who had passed us Several days ago on hors back, one of them we observed was a man of great influence with those Indians, harranged them; after Smokeing with the Indians who had collected to view us we formed a camp at the point near which place I Saw a fiew pieces of Drift wood after we had our camp fixed and fires made, a Chief came from their Camp which was about 1/4 of a mile up the Columbia river at the head of about 200 men Singing and beeting on their drums Stick and keeping time to the musik, they formed a half circle around us and Sung for Some time, we gave them all Smoke, and Spoke to their Chiefs as well as we could by Signs informing them of our friendly disposition to all nations, and our joy in Seeing those of our Children around us, Gave the principal chief a large Medal Shirt and Handkf.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Slowly and carefully, therefore, I gained my feet, only to see that my watcher did the same; cautiously I advanced toward him, finding that by moving with a shuffling gait I could retain my balance as well as make reasonably rapid progress.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

For in the sterres, clerer than is glas, Is writen, god wot, who-so coude it rede, The deeth of every man, withouten drede.”
— from Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. (Florence Marie) Grimm

He turned hastily away, passed the great Englishman with unseeing eyes, clanged the iron gate heavily behind him, and went on towards the house of his father.
— from The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

The artificial lake lies still, reflecting in its crystal clarity the innumerable graces of the poplars and pine trees that grow down to [Pg v] the very banks of the trim island.
— from The Rush for the Spoil (La Curée): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

* * * * * * * C Let those who to this daedal Valley throng And by my tumid Ashes pass along, Let them be glad with this consoling Thought: I got a Market Value for my Song.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin

As when a child on some long Winter's night Affrighted clinging to its Grandam's knees With eager wond'ring and perturb'd delight Listens strange tales of fearful dark decrees [ 86 ] Muttered to wretch by necromantic spell; 5 Or of those hags, who at the witching time Of murky Midnight ride the air sublime, And mingle foul embrace with fiends of Hell: Cold Horror drinks its blood!
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But when all Tuesday and Tuesday night went by, and no word from the master, I must confess that I got uneasy; and now here's Wednesday noon, and no news; so I just took the liberty to come down and ask your opinion in the matter, seeing as [Pg 172] how you are a particular friend of the family, and an Inspector to boot."
— from Final Proof; Or, The Value of Evidence by Rodrigues Ottolengui

but grows up clasping it ever closer and closer, till it grows quite one with it, and no one can separate them any more for ever!”
— from Household stories from the Land of Hofer; or, Popular Myths of Tirol by Rachel Harriette Busk

But in a country not normally governed (and no one either inside or outside Ireland considered the Irish government to be normal) the matter is more intricate.
— from The Evolution of Sinn Fein by Robert Mitchell Henry

As nobody has better caught the infinite glory of being a child, and as nobody in literature has more successfully "set the little child in the midst," than has Traherne, it may be well to let him tell us here in his splendid enthusiasm what it is to be a child and what the eyes of a child can see.
— from Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones