“Then give me a letter to him, and tell him to sell out without an instant’s delay, perhaps even now I shall arrive too late.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

As in some shadow-pantomime, the deities and demons pursue each other in endless procession, dropping down as awe-inspiring Titans, vanishing as grotesque pigmies—vanishing beyond the lamp into Nothingness!
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

This combination assumes greater complexity in higher forms, and the human body is an exceedingly complex system of different parts, each of which has a peculiar life of its own, vita propria , subordinate to the whole.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Su lenguaje no es italiano ni español, aunque participa de ambos; es una graciosa mezcolanza de palabras españolas italianizadas y vice-versa, formada por él para su uso particular.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

His brother Dr. Paulus Ewald, had already renounced Judaism, and was Lutheran Pastor at Merkendorf, Bavaria.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Nor is the unity of the book that of an undeviating narrative in chronological order of one man's life; it grows rather out of a single dominating personality exhibited in all the vicissitudes of a manifold career.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

"Elle a donze portes, et sor chascune porte a une grandisme palais et biaus.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The use of primary adverbs precedes the explanation of adverb derivation; prepositions, especially de , da , je , etc., receive careful attention, also the verb system, and the differentiation of words whose English equivalents are ambiguous.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

“Don’t dey tear der suckin’ baby right off his mother’s breast, and sell him, and der little children as is crying and holding on by her clothes,—don’t dey pull ’em off and sells ’em?
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties.
— from A Great Success by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Recherches sur la segmentation de la cicatrule et la formation des produits adventifs de l'œuf des Plagiostomes et particulièrement des Raies.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

As she smiled, Roddy for the first time was looking directly at her, and as he looked his interest in assassins and his anxiety as to what they might do passed entirely from him.
— from The White Mice by Richard Harding Davis

"Some kinds it does," said the Ranger, "but there's others that go down pretty easy, lodge-pole pine, fer instance.
— from The Boy With the U. S. Foresters by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

D. pulverulénta (Echeveria) is beautiful but weird-looking.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong

et dimisit predictum equum ibidem stare per unum mensem absque aliquid clamando de predicto equo ideo preceptum dictum equum seisire ad opus domini Regis et inde Regi respondere.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

She is not su-su-superior—to"— Bertha did not assist him by completing this disjointed phrase, even if she suspected what he desired to say.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

M. Pyonnier, Director of the Customs, aware of the peculiar difficulty of his situation in a country where the customs were held in abhorrence, observed great caution and moderation in collecting the duties: Personal examination, which is so revolting and indecorous, especially with respect to females, was suppressed.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 12 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne