THE SLANG DICTIONARY ETYMOLOGICAL HISTORICAL AND ANECDOTAL “THE WEDGE” AND THE “WOODEN SPOON.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Hay un interés comercial, se pueden hacer varias operaciones, pero…, a veces dudamos en hacerlo por
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Mr. Cruncher, with some diffidence, explained himself as meaning “Old Nick's.”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

If a dog enters his house, it is killed and thrown out.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

When he had spent some months there, in successful study, he returned into Gaul, to Dalfinus; 900 and having stayed with him three years, received from him the tonsure, and Dalfinus esteemed him so highly in love that he had thoughts of making him his heir; but this was prevented by the bishop's cruel death, and Wilfrid was reserved to be a bishop of his own, that is, the English, nation.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

XV Oukoun chrê thaumazein, ei pantelôs oligon ek tês koilias, hoson an akribôs ê kateirgasmenon, eis tas artêrias paragignetai phthanousas plêrousthai tôn kouphoterôn, all' ekeino gignôskein, hôs dy' eston holkês eidê, to men tê pros to kenoumenon akolouthia, to d' oikeiotêti poiotêtos gignomenon; heterôs men gar eis tas physas ho aêr, heterôs
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

The slope down is gradual as the traveller moves south, but one would not judge that, in going to Cuantla, descent enough had been made to occasion a material change in the climate and productions of the soil; but such is the case.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

“Throughout the whole period of Mr. Candy’s illness, from first to last, not one word about the Diamond escaped his lips.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

"Aided and abetted by Miss Gurney," the detective egged her on.
— from In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells

France was the only country in Europe that could do England harm, and on the other hand England was the only country that could injure France—the late war with Russia had not the slightest effect upon France except costing her money, but a war with England would set every party in France into activity each with its own peculiar objects, but all of them against the existing order of things— l'ordre social serait bouleversé and the Empire might perish in the convulsion.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

It may be well to give the passage now in Moesinger's work: “ ‘ Vae fuit, vae fuit nobis, Filius Dei erat hic. ’
— from The Gospel According To Peter: A Study by Walter Richard Cassels

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty : The Humble Petition of Sir George Horsey Knight; David Ramsey , Roger Foulke , and Dud Dudley , Esquires: Humbly Sheweth,
— from The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860 Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc. by C. F. G. Clark

The results of these reconnaissances in locating the positions occupied by the Russians, combined with the success of the Japanese transport arrangements, which, as stated already, placed an army of 60,000 to 70,000 men at General Kuroki's disposal, enabled him to complete his preparations for the great task before him by the beginning of the last week in April.
— from The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East by Sydney Tyler

Jezebel was destroyed except her hands and feet, and the same fate is recorded of many other witches, or of those who suffered under the influence of malevolent spells.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 566, September 15, 1832 by Various

What more deadly enemies had France in the day of Louis XIV, than the persecuted Huguenots?
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf