What do you let the girl chop the toast up into these dinky little chunks for?
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Esta aura que vaga llena The gentle air from the fields de los sencillos olores filled with its sweet scents de las campesinas flores of the wildflowers’ incense que brota esa orilla amena; that this sweet shore yields: esa agua limpia y serena that limpid wave so calm que atraviesa sin temor that the fishermen here la barca del pescador cross without a fear que espera cantando al día, as, singing, they wait for dawn, ¿no es cierto, paloma mía, isn’t it true, my dove, que están respirando amor?
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

A most active search was still prosecuted in the house near the Hotel de la Chevrette for the discovery of Planchet.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

La France marche à la tête de la civilisation —France leads the van in the civilisation of the world.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Their easy march was continued between Mount Libanus and the sea-shore: their wants were liberally supplied by the coasting traders of Genoa and Pisa; and they drew large contributions from the emirs of Tripoli, Tyre, Sidon, Acre, and Caesarea, who granted a free passage, and promised to follow the example of Jerusalem.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

mo di qua mo di la como fanno li cingani viueno de carne cruda et de vna radice dolce q̃ la quiamão chapae ogni vno de li dui q̃ pigliaſſemo mangiaua vna ſporta de biſcoto et beueua in vna fiata mezo ſechio de hacqua et mangiauão li ſorgi ſenza ſcorti carli.
— 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

El estupor de los circunstantes fué extraordinario.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Vedendo queſto Lo cap o gñale mando alguni abruſare le ſue caſe per ſpauentarli Quando queſti viſtenno bruzare le ſue caze deuentorono piu fero ci apreſſo de le caſe forenno amazati dui deli nrj et
— 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

During the first century of the occupation, Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, friend of the Indians, objected to the atrocities committed by the Spanish.
— from The Haciendas of Mexico: An Artist's Record by Paul Alexander Bartlett

In the course of time the wagons reached Knoxville, but my troops derived little comfort from this fact, for the train was stopped by General Foster, who had succeeded Burnside in command of the department, its contents distributed pro rata to the different organizations of the entire army, and I received but a small share.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 3 by Philip Henry Sheridan

y empiedro de las calles” f. 168 433.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

Their slave-daughter was permitted to step in and do little chores for them after her day's work was done.
— from A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland by Laura S. (Laura Smith) Haviland

Le Timbre-Poste français, étude historique et anecdotique de la poste et du timbre en France et dans les colonies françaises.
— from Chats on Postage Stamps by Frederick John Melville

M. de la Choue felt certain that the Baron would profit by his opportunity to win the Pope over to the theory of free corporations; whereas he, the Viscount, believed that the salvation of Catholicism and the world could only be worked by a system in which the corporations should be closed and obligatory.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3 by Émile Zola

forever generation, hatching, hymen, parturition, vast ensemble, exquisite and robust detail, living communion, fecundation, plenitude, production!
— from William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo

As it was, I dreamed horridly ; but not my usual dreams of social miseries and misunderstandings and all sorts of crucifixions of the spirit; but of good, cheery, physical things—of long successions of vaulted, dimly lit cellars full of black water, in which I went swimming among toads and unutterable, cold, blind fishes.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Didn't you bring me to this dear little cottage first of all?
— from The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli