Simultaneously with these misfortunes, they were suffering from an inroad of the Numidians, who were doing even more damage to the country than the Romans.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

I recollected having put into my selection a number of letters from Diderot, De Leyre, Madam d’ Epinay, Madam de Chenonceaux, etc., which filled up the void and were missing.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

——Never mind, brother Toby, he would say,—by God’s blessing we shall have another war break out again some of these days; and when it does,—the belligerent powers, if they would hang themselves, cannot keep us out of play.——I defy ’em, my dear Toby, he would add, to take countries without taking towns,——or towns without sieges.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

No doubt; I thank the blessed skies, That, going out to say my prayers, As cats devout each morning do,
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

4 II Un viaje por el corazón de España Cuando empezada la caminata dejaron a un lado las casuchas de Villahorrenda, el caballero, que era joven y de muy buen ver, habló de este modo: —Dígame usted, Sr. Solón...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Do go again—I shall be glad to see her if it be only for a moment—for I am sure she must be in great Distress [exit MAID] —Dear Heart—how provoking!—I'm not mistress of half the circumstances!—We shall have the whole affair in the newspapers with the Names of the Parties at length before I have dropt the story at a dozen houses.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

ǣrdæg m. (nap. ǣrdagas) early day, early morn, dawn : in pl. former days, past times , AO.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Aurora made her appearance bringing gladness to the earth but sadness to Sancho Panza, for he found that his Dapple was missing, and seeing himself bereft of him he began the saddest and most doleful lament in the world, so loud that Don Quixote awoke at his exclamations and heard him saying, “O son of my bowels, born in my very house, my children’s plaything, my wife’s joy, the envy of my neighbours, relief of my burdens, and lastly, half supporter of myself, for with the six-and-twenty maravedis thou didst earn me daily I met half my charges.” Don Quixote, when he heard the lament and learned the cause, consoled Sancho with the best arguments he could, entreating him to be patient, and promising to give him a letter of exchange ordering three out of five ass-colts that he had at home to be given to him.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

One lady admits this way of spending the day entails much discomfort.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

“I am la Senora Dona Elvira Maria de Guadalupe de Menella,” replied the damsel, with a liquid sonorousness so annihilating, that Janet made a mocking courtesy; and her mother said it was like asking the head of the house of Hapsburg if she were a lady!
— from Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Tous ces malheurs, ces tristesses, tout ce sang répandu sont imposés par vous, mon Dieu, en manière de rédemption.
— from Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse

But while, in the west and centre, the [Pg 436] issue was hanging thus in doubt, events more decisive were happening in the east.
— from Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan

Histoire naturelle, développement et métamorphose de la Salamandre terrestre , 1854.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Dr. F. Stoney on her right; Dr. Ramsey left; Dr. Joan Watts, Dr. Emily Morris, Dr. Rose Turner and Dr. Helen Hanson behind.
— from The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere by M. A. (Mabel Annie) Stobart

Mixed up for twenty-five years with the gigantic commotions that disturbed Europe, M. de Metternich showed the lofty aptitude of his mind, and that rare penetration and sagacity which can foresee and direct events.
— from Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna by La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de

(This reply was borrowed from the romance of Espinel, entitled Vida del Escudero Marços de Obregon , 1618).
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

At such times Richard, stretched upon his lion-skin, would raise himself, and lift up his face to the immense, and with his noble voice make the darkness tremble as he sang— Domna, dels angels regina, Domna, roza ses espina, Domna, joves enfantina, Domna, estela marina, De las autras plus luzens!
— from The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett