Cuando el ladrón vio a la princesa que se paseaba por la playa, exclamó: —¡Deseo a la princesa en nuestro barco!—e inmediatamente la princesa estuvo en el barco; pero como el dragón vio esto, con rugido terrible se precipitó sobre el barco.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

(7) Dellepiane, A. "Le Progrès et sa formule.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

With the picture of Dives and Lazarus presented elsewhere ( vol. i. p. 281 ) may be instructively compared the accompanying scene of a rich man’s death-bed ( Fig. 24 ), taken from ‘Ars Moriendi,’ one of the early block-books.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

ordeno questo hordine et lo dete atuti li piloti et maeſtri de le ſue naui Loqual era lui de note ſempre voleua andar inanzi dele altre naui et elle ſeguitaſeno la ſua con vna facela grande de legnio che la quiamano farol Qual ſemp̃ portaua pendẽte de la popa de la Sua naue queſto ſegniale era acio de continuo lo ſeguitaſeno se faceua vno alt o fuoco con vna lanterna ho cõ vno pezo
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

"Save, save, save," seemed to be his motto, and when at church the plate was passed to him he gave his dime a loving pinch ere parting company with it; and yet none read the service louder or defended his favorite liturgy more zealously than himself.
— from Cousin Maude by Mary Jane Holmes

It is common in dooryards, and like places, especially in the Southern United States.
— from The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section X, Y, and Z by Project Gutenberg

As a well spent day affords happy sleep, so does a life profitably employed afford a happy death.
— from Thoughts on Art and Life by da Vinci Leonardo

Owing to its slower operation, no doubt a larger portion escape into the open before dying than when strychnin is used.
— from House Rats and Mice by David E. (David Ernest) Lantz

de chambre et ma bibliothèque sont les deux articles les plus embarrassans.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

And then a large red-faced person came in, with a puffy important mouth, a fringe of whiskers meeting under his chin, and what Trixie, in speaking privately of her relative's personal appearance, described as 'little piggy eyes,' which had, however, a twinkle of a rather primitive kind of humour in them.
— from The Giant's Robe by F. Anstey

He was unfortunate; and when he died, my mother came down, and lived penuriously enough, I knew not how till I grew older, down in that same suburban street.
— from Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley