Her cheeks grew pale, and a deep, earnest shadow passed over her eyes.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

ignavos et ignobiles ad dignitates et sacerdotia promotos quotidie videret , when other men rose, still he was in the same state, eodem tenore et fortuna cui mercedem laborum studiorumque deberi putaret , whom he thought to deserve as well as the rest.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[168] puede beberse de ella sin peligro y su sabor carece del dejo especial de ciertas aguas de fuente.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

From its very nature, the relation has called for an unusual amount of [ 12 ] annotation, which has been drawn freely from various sources: chiefly Mosto’s annotations in his publication of Pigafetta’s relation in Part V, volume iii, of the Raccolta di documenti e studi , published by the Royal Columbian Commission of the fourth centenary of the discovery of America under the auspices of the Minister of Public Instruction (Roma, 1894); Navarrete’s Col. de viages , iv (Madrid, 1837); various publications of the Hakluyt Society; and F. H. H. Guillemard’s Life of Ferdinand Magellan (New York, 1891).
— 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

And so I out by water among the ships, and to Deptford and Blackewall about business, and so home and to dinner with my father and sister and family, mighty pleasant all of us; and, among other things, with a sparrow that our Mercer hath brought up now for three weeks, which is so tame that it flies up and down, and upon the table, and eats and pecks, and do everything so pleasantly, that we are mightily pleased with it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She kissed me, and still keeping me at her side (where I was well contented to stand, for I derived a child’s pleasure from the contemplation of her face, her dress, her one or two ornaments, her white forehead, her clustered and shining curls, and beaming dark eyes), she proceeded to address Helen Burns.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

[Instruments] abacus, logometer[obs3], slide rule, slipstick[coll.], tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan- pan[obs3]; adding machine; cash register; electronic calculator, calculator, computer; [people who calculate] arithmetician, calculator, abacist[obs3], algebraist, mathematician; statistician, geometer; programmer; accountant, auditor.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

This theory, too, helps to "let down easy" some prominent naturalists whose great names have served to give countenance to one of the most widespread and persistent errors in current natural history.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various

[650] del excelentísimo señor presidente de la República .
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

But when the postman wound his horn at the bottom of the village, and the Parson hurried down from the churchyard to meet him, at the expense of eightpence he received the following dry epistle. " Son Philip ,—We are much surprised and pained by your extraordinary letter.
— from Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

No doubt: every song published now-a-days is not only admired, but ‘enthusiastically applauded,’ wherever performed.
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

I did realize, without any effort, that my lower limbs were developing excruciating shooting pains from the cramped position.
— from Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures by Edgar Franklin