[The Unconscious Humorists.] SCHINNER (Madame), wife of Hippolyte Schinner, born Adelaide Leseigneur de Rouville, daughter of the Baron and Baronne de Rouville, her father being a naval officer; lived during the Restoration in Paris with her mother, boarding at a house situated on the rue de Surene and belonging to Molineux.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Desaparece su cara entre un follaje espeso, compuesto de mil 10 suertes de encajes rizados con tenacillas, y la corona de media vara de alto, rodeada de rayos de oro, es un disforme catafalco que le han armado sobre la cabeza.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

We shall at some future time show that the moral laws not merely presuppose the existence of a Supreme Being, but also, as themselves absolutely necessary in a different relation, demand or postulate it—although only from a practical point of view.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

” “Ah! ah!” “Here is his Excellency the Marquis de Rastignac, Doctor of the Law of Contraries,” cried Bianchon, seizing Eugene by the throat, and almost throttling him.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

The low spirits caused by the drizzling rain during our last evening in the Sacred City were increased by telegraphic news received from Jaffa.
— from A Trip to the Orient: The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Robert Urie Jacob

In a dazed, abstract sort of way part of his spinning brain was conscious of the fact that some of the other Nazis were dropping right down on his unprotected tail.
— from Dave Dawson, Flight Lieutenant by Robert Sidney Bowen

In several hollows up above Captain Gay discovered rich deposits of small nuggets that were secured with ease, and two weeks later the Major called a meeting of all the members of the party on the sands before his tent.
— from Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

For on the North Downs near Lenham is a patch of Lower Pliocene deposit resting directly on the Chalk, the older Tertiary strata having been removed by denudation, clearly due to the uplift of the Wealden anticline.
— from The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil (John Cecil) Hughes