I confess that the night you spent with us was a cruel one, but I do not think that you did rightly in giving up your visits to Madame Orio.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Yestreen I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen, A gate, I fear, I'll dearly rue; I gat my death frae twa sweet een, Twa lovely een o'bonie blue.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

HAITI AND DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Inginac, G.B. Industrie agricole.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen, / A gate, I fear, I'll dearly rue; / I got my death frae twa sweet een, / Twa lovely een o' bonnie blue.
— 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.

The Rhine, rising in Switzerland, is now a frontier river for a part of its course, and finds the sea in Holland; the Danube rises in Germany but flows over its greater length elsewhere; the Elbe rises in the mountains of Bohemia, now called Czecho-Slovakia; the Oder traverses Lower Silesia; and the Niemen now bounds the frontier of East Prussia and has its source in Russia.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

The finest rice flour, termed in France poudre de riz , is generally employed.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

And as he said this, Levin blushed even more, and his doubts as to whether he had done right in going to see Anna were settled once for all.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For newes, all say De Ruyter is gone to Guinny before us.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

développement des relations internationales grâce aux facilités de l'échange électronique.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

There is yet another sign by which it is easy to know that a great democratic revolution is going on or approaching.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

"But the diamond ring is gone, and if the ring is not recovered, I may be held responsible for it.
— from The Rover Boys in Business; Or, The Search for the Missing Bonds by Edward Stratemeyer

Till the dark of Sunday night; And we dinner on the dainties, Robe in garbs of gorgeous hue, But it's all another story When the bills came due.
— from Oklahoma Sunshine by Freeman Edwin Miller

It is evident to all alike that a great democratic revolution is going on among us; but there are two opinions as to its nature and consequences.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

Albert Seyton saw at a glance that it was so, and he immediately left the deserted rooms in grief for the loss of his young friend Harry, to whom he felt warmly attached.
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer

The cavalry, having beaten in the defenders, retired in good order; the archers advanced to cover a party of pikemen with scaling-ladders.
— from The Forest Lovers by Maurice Hewlett

M. de Barante writes to say that M. de Rémusat is giving readings from a work called Abélard ; [55] he speaks of it as a singular production in dramatic form, the reading of which will occupy three sessions of three hours each—a very long period.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

The Government of 1830 did right in giving the name of Beaumarchais to the boulevard on which he at one time lived, and where he possessed a certain amount of property.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

As for the instances of the free-will offerings, Ames hath answered sufficiently, 824 “that though the particulars were not, nor could not be, determined by a distinct rule in general, yet they were determined by the circumstances, as our divines are wont to answer the Papists about their vows, councils, supererogations not by a general law, but by concurrence of circumstances.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

I play another sleepy song and go to sleep and wake up and the diamond tail of the diamond rabbit is gone.
— from Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg