It was clear that the Varnum fortunes were at the ebb, but the two women did what they could to preserve a decent dignity; and Mrs. Hale, in particular, had a certain wan refinement not out of keeping with her pale old-fashioned house.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

ne proximo decennio deum adorarent, &c. 6632 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Mengantarkan makan-makanan-nya, Yang di hulu, yang di hilir, Yang di laut, yang di darat, Anak unta bertujoh ekor Mengantarkan rezki-nya, Dan lagi gajah puteh sabrang lautan Mengantarkan rezki-mu.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

There's a dustman downstairs, Alfred Doolittle, wants to see you.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

A humour, according to Jonson, was a bias of disposition, a warp, so to speak, in character by which "Some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Many a provocation has been offered, and a system of petty oppression pursued towards men, the force and meaning of which would appear as nothing to strangers, and doubtless do appear so to many "'long-shore" juries and judges.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

To what will they aspire, those students moving so light-hearted amid the dead dragons and satans of an extinct world?
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Both Mary and Dickon drew a relieved breath.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Besides, from a few words that were dropped, Darya Alexandrovna saw at once that Anna, the two nurses, and the child had no common existence, and that the mother’s visit was something exceptional.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But there warn't no time to swap knives; the old man grabbed me by the hand and shook, and kept on shaking; and all the time how the woman did dance around and laugh and cry; and then how they both did fire off questions about Sid, and Mary, and the rest of the tribe.
— from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) by Mark Twain

His life from without may seem but a rude mound of mud; there will be some golden chamber at the heart of it, in which he dwells delighted; and for as dark as his pathway seems to the observer, he will have some kind of a bull’s-eye at his belt.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Discẻndẻnte, descending, a descendant.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Pennsylvania will never be behind her sister States in doing honor to the brave men who gave up their lives while fighting her battles; and the demonstrations of each Decoration Day are evidences that she will not soon forget their deeds, or their claim upon her deepest gratitude.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

“Don Xp̄oual (Christoval de Moura), á Don Juan; Lisboa, 2 de Julio de 600: sobre el proyectado casamiento de D a .
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

In learning, for instance, a new language, at first, whilst the pupil is in the midst of the difficulties of regular and irregular verbs, and when, in translation, a dictionary is wanted at every moment, the occupation itself cannot be very agreeable; but we are excited by the hope that our labour will every day diminish, and that we shall at last enjoy the entertainment of reading useful and agreeable books.
— from Practical Education, Volume I by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

All this made good sport for us, save only for Jost Tetzel, who was himself a right moderate man; indeed, in aftertimes, when at Venice I saw how that wealthy and noble gentlemen drank but sparingly of the juice of the grape, I marvelled wherefor we Germans are ever proud of a man who is able to drink deep, and apt to look askance at such as fear to see the bottom of the cup.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers

Prince Karol is an idle, disconsolate dreamer, and his story a tedious analysis of the more unamiable aspect of passion.
— from Studies in Modern Music, Second Series Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Brahms by W. H. (William Henry) Hadow

Great palms rise like columns, and huge trees of the fig persuasion spread and drop down at several spots to form green bowers, and capital places to make huts.
— from Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy by George Manville Fenn