And marry them they do, making a regular contract!
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Now bees, as may be clearly seen by examining the edge of a growing comb, do make a rough, circumferential wall or rim all round the comb; and they gnaw this away from the opposite sides, always working circularly as they deepen each cell.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

He used to have a ride before dinner, and his suite on those occasions were generally Davoust, myself, and Roustan.” “Constant?” said the prince, suddenly, and quite involuntarily.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ang hugsaw nga bátà dì mahimutang, A restless child will not sit still.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Now bees, as may be clearly seen by examining the edge of a growing comb, do make a rough, circumferential wall or rim all round the comb; and they gnaw into this from the opposite sides, always working circularly as they deepen each cell.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

In yonder rippling bay, their naval host Did many a Roman chief and Asian king To doubtful conflict, certain slaughter, bring Look where the second Caesar's trophies rose, Now, like the hands that reared them, withering; Imperial anarchs, doubling human woes!
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Personalmente tengo también más amigos a causa de mis actividades relacionadas con Internet.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Unfortunately there were no calls for Mr. Gubb’s detective services for some time after he received his disguises and diploma, but while waiting he devoted his spare time to the dynamite mystery, a remarkable case on which many detectives had been working for many weeks.
— from Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Ellis Parker Butler

Other mottoes are from The Merry Devil of Edmonton , from Jonson, from Fletcher ( The Little French Lawyer , Women Pleased , The Fair Maid of the Inn , The Beggar's Bush ), from Brome, Dekker, Middleton and Rowley, Cartwright, Otway, Southerne, The Beggar's Opera , Walpole's Mysterious Mother , The Critic , Chrononhotonthologos , Joanna Baillie.
— from Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Margaret Ball

It was in 1887 that Dr. George M. Dawson, the leader of an exploring expedition sent by the Canadian Government into the Yukon district, made a report confirming the presence of gold in vast quantities throughout that section.
— from Klondike Nuggets, and How Two Boys Secured Them by Edward Sylvester Ellis

People talk of modern civilization and the spirit of the age as though these expressions conveyed a clear and definite meaning, and represented certain ideas distinctly recognized as truth by all; as though this so-called spirit of the age were something as definite, as tangible, and of as efficacious an application as a code of civil law; and as though its practical working were one of truth and harmony; whereas, in reality, no incomprehensible jargon of words, no jumble of ideas, no jungle of thicket is so helplessly confused and impenetrable as the maze of struggling, confused, and contradictory theories supposed to constitute the spirit of the age and serve as the exponent of modern enlightenment.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

She decided to dress and act differently; make a radical change in her methods.
— from In Red and Gold by Samuel Merwin