The World War has tended also to demand a renewed consideration of scurvy.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

O dear, all right, come, there; vaya con lo que sale Vd.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

I want a bed to sleep in, good tea to drink, and refined conversation....
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Two specious principles of religious jurisprudence were established, from whence they deduced a direct and rigorous conclusion, against the subjects of the empire who still adhered to the ceremonies of their ancestors: that the magistrate is, in some measure, guilty of the crimes which he neglects to prohibit, or to punish; and, that the idolatrous worship of fabulous deities, and real dæmons, is the most abominable crime against the supreme majesty of the Creator.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And promptly as the United States mail could deliver and return, came Singletree, Darnley & Co.’s check for five thousand dollars.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

You conclude, that religious doctrines and reasonings can have no influence on life, because they ought to have no influence; never considering, that men reason not in the same manner you do, but draw many consequences from the belief of a divine Existence, and suppose that the Deity will inflict punishments on vice, and bestow rewards on virtue, beyond what appear in the ordinary course of nature.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

[103-2] en la soflama del tío 10 Juan Gómez, y miróle a fondo como para adivinar el sentido de aquella rara contestación; pero, no logrando leer nada en la fisonomía zorruna de su merced, parecióle oportuno añadir con fingida naturalidad: —Tampoco dejaría de agradarme
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Even those who yet survive are losing the poetry of existence which characterized them when the pursuit of the trade meant periodical journeys to the pit whence the material was dug, a regular camping out from month to month, except in the depth of winter, a peregrination among farms which could be counted by the hundred, and in spite of this Arab existence the preservation of that respectability which is insured by the never-failing production of a well-lined purse.
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Mr. Austen made no sign of denial and Rowland continued: "Then, for drugging a sailor into a stupor, and having him on lookout out of his turn while in that condition, and at the moment when the Titan struck the iceberg, Captain Bryce and Mr. Austen have, as part owners, committed an act which nullifies the insurance on that ship."
— from The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson

On one side of this entry was a tiny parlor, as dismal as rag carpet, fireless hearth, dingy paper and dark-green paper shades to the small windows could make it.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various

Godlike I fear no changes; Shatter the world with thunders loud, Still would I ray-like flit about the ranges Of dark and ruddy cloud.
— from Poems - First Series by Squire, John Collings, Sir

[22] with religion and the religious spirit, it is difficult to discover why he denies a religious character to myth.
— from An Introduction to Mythology by Lewis Spence

Graham doubted, and replied coldly, as he bent over the print,— “I once stayed there a few days, but my recollection of it is not sufficiently lively to enable me to recognize its features in this design.”
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

From these and other facts Thomassin observes that the popes had then the chief administration of the city of Rome and of the exarchate, made treaties of peace, averted wars, defended and recovered cities, and repulsed the enemies.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler

He was at first shy and distant, and remarkably circumspect, but he grew insensibly more and more agreeable as you got better acquainted with him, till at last you formed for him the most sincere friendship, and your acquaintance ended in the warmest and closest attachment.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson