It enfolded the boulevard, where the street lights were dimmed and looked like smoking candles.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Quella che giva intorno era piu` molta, e quella men che giacea al tormento, ma piu` al duolo avea la lingua sciolta.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Tho' wit and worth, in either sex, Saint Mary's Isle can shaw that, Wi' Dukes and Lords let Selkirk mix, And weel does Selkirk fa' that.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

And then most folks are so darn crooked themselves that they expect a fellow to do a little lying, so if I was fool enough to never whoop the ante I'd get the credit for lying anyway!
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

‘And I wish, Redmond, that the young gentleman had been in danger a little longer,’ said the widow, her eyes filling with tears, ‘and you’d have stayed so much the more with your poor old mother.’
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Le plaisir de la lecture commence, pour moi, par une visite et une discussion avec le libraire spécialisé.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

They fell to the right and left, as the shots were directed a little low so as to hit the bearers.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

A defeat at Lincoln left Stephen a prisoner in the hands of his enemies; but after his escape he laid siege to the city of Oxford, where Matilda had assembled her followers.
— from Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by W. F. (William Francis) Dawson