Dos copas extraordinarias de plata, en forma de platillos cincelados, adornaban el bocado; y las cabezadas y riendas estaban cubiertas de argollas, pasadores, puntillas y cadenitas del mismo metal.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[Pg 272] CHAPTER VIII "Diagnosis difficult," said Dr. Antonio pompously professional, yet clearly puzzled and disturbed.
— from Star of India by Alice Perrin

And when he said that they were not, they began at the beginning and went all over the subject again, telling him what a discreet and proper place Yarmouth was, and how none such as he was seeking ever ventured there, until he was like to go distracted, and had not completed the search of even that one little Row when the hour was up, and he hastened to the place appointed to meet his men-at-arms.
— from A Boy's Ride by Gulielma Zollinger

If you want ’em to do anything particular, pretend you don’t wish ’em to do nothin’ of the sort.
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood

But since consequences last when deeds are past, perhaps you had better halt before you determine to do them.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

Rise, sir; I will pay your debts, and perhaps place you in a situation to contract others.
— from The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Carlo Goldoni

If you can't do any particular puzzle you will find its solution in the "key," which is bound with the book.
— from How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity by Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John

he fault of two of them, at least, is outweighed by the merit; and that of the third is so much extenuated by the circumstances of his life, as not to deserve a perpetual prison: yet must these, with multitudes equally blameless, languish in confinement, till malevolence shall relent, or the law be changed.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson

My idea then, is, that though proper exceptions to these general rules are desirable, and probably practicable, yet if the exceptions cannot be agreed on, the establishment of the rules, in all cases, will do ill in very few.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson

The monk seemed in the act of presenting a letter; but though that action, and his whole demeanour, appeared perfectly pacific, yet St. Real was convinced, from his previous knowledge, that the ultimate designs of the Jacobin must be evil; and striding across the audience-hall with the purpose of interposing, he had nearly reached the door of the cabinet, when one of the nobles in attendance stopped him for an instant, attempting to explain to him that the King would summon him when he thought fit.
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James