—A propósito de la América Central, ¿sabía Ud. que el café de Costa Rica se ha cotizado en el mercado de Londres a precios más altos que el de los demás países de la América Central, lo que no es poco decir?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

with the methods of fire-making used by the North American Indians in Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (Cleveland reissue); see also Captivity of Hans Stade (Hakluyt Society edition), p. 126.
— 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

L.G. Συζητητής, οῦ, ὁ, a disputation, controversial reasoner, sophist, 1 Co. 1.20.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

I passed eight days in such torments as nothing but the pleasure of obeying Madam Dupin could render supportable: I would not have undertaken to pass eight other days like them had Madam Dupin given me herself for the recompense.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

After looking at Mrs. Gummidge for some moments, in sore distress of mind, he glanced at the Dutch clock, rose, snuffed the candle, and put it in the window.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

888 This dismal cry rings sadly in her ear, Through which it enters to surprise her heart; Who overcome by doubt and bloodless fear, With cold-pale weakness numbs each feeling part; 892 Like soldiers when their captain once doth yield, They basely fly and dare not stay the field.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A volume of dark clouds rose slowly from the ensanguined earth, and ascended gradually, till it reached the vault of the Cavern.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

"Oh what a dreadful cynical remark!" said Vivi with another admiring look.
— from Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Owen Johnson

As was seen, the question debated in the Dungannon Convention referred solely to the extension of the elective franchise to Catholics; and, though this was unjustly denied them by the majority of the Volunteers, under the guidance of the leaders of the movement, there was no question of any longer refusing to the native Irish Catholics the right of practising their religion freely.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

“We are going to Donald,” Clay replied, still keeping control of his rather unruly temper, “and we’ll pay the boy’s fare to that point, if you think we ought to.
— from The River Motor Boat Boys on the Columbia; Or, The Confession of a Photograph by Harry Gordon

Next day Charlie Russell saw him out back of the saloon, sitting on a box and looking very tough.
— from Memories of Old Montana by Con Price

The other elements that come to us from abroad—the German, the Celtic and all—we expect soon to be lost, and they will not retain their individuality; but this race will for generations remain a distinct colored race; so that it becomes a problem of peculiar difficulty to deal with them.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 12, December, 1881 by Various

A drunken clamorous ring Seethed around Marlowe and his enemy.
— from Collected Poems: Volume Two by Alfred Noyes

The man had come down, fully dressed, with his hat on his head; and the deputy chief roared: "Stop!
— from The Teeth of the Tiger by Maurice Leblanc