D'Orleans,—for be sure he, on his way to Chaos, is in the thick of this,—promulgates his Deliberations; ( Deliberations a prendre pour les Assemblees des Bailliages. ) fathered by him, written by Laclos of the Liaisons Dangereuses.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Éste se levantó en el momento en que la señora hablaba con su sobrino de asuntos de familia y dió algunos pasos por la estancia.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

la cabeza y dando algunos pasos por la habitación.—¿Rosario salió anoche de su cuarto?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Come quando una grossa nebbia spira, o quando l'emisperio nostro annotta, par di lungi un molin che 'l vento gira, veder mi parve un tal dificio allotta; poi per lo vento mi ristrinsi retro al duca mio; che' non li` era altra grotta.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

One suspects that this kind of divinity and philosopher perhaps lacks shame?—He once said: "Under certain circumstances I love mankind"—and referred thereby to Ariadne, who was present; "in my opinion man is an agreeable, brave, inventive animal, that has not his equal upon earth, he makes his way even through all labyrinths.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When Thorbiorn Hook found that he could contrive in no way to get Grettir out of Drangey, and when he saw that if his expulsion were delayed, and Grettir left of his own accord, he would forfeit the money he had paid for the rights of pasturage on the island, he went to his foster-mother, and told her his difficulty, and pretty plainly let her understand that as he could get help nowhere else, he did not mind having recourse to the black art.
— from Grettir the Outlaw: A Story of Iceland by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

These districts are Parang, Pansul, Lati, Gi’tŭng, Lu’uk and Tandu.
— from The History of Sulu by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

[Footnote 1: 'J'ai passé moi-même chez une peuplade Indienne, qui se prenaît a pleurer à la vue d'un voyageur, parce qu'il lui rappelait des amis partis pour la contrée des Ames, et depuis long-temps en voyage. —CHATEAUBRIAND.]
— from The Pilgrims of New England A Tale of the Early American Settlers by Mrs. (Annie) Webb-Peploe

Babies, she calls the tiny things, and babies they are to her, all the little newly-borns of her farm, whether a pinky piglet, a calf that gambols awkwardly, a little turkey that must not get its feet wet, a colt unsteady on stilt-legs, a beady-eyed yellow duckling, a plunging puppy lost among its own four legs,—babies all.
— from The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland

Just beyond the gash that marks the exit of the Deva, a prominent peak, like a small cousin of the Matterhorn
— from Northern Spain by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram