reliquōs dēterrērī spērāns , Caes.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

She drew up plans of economy, she made exact calculations, and she did what nobody else thought of doing: she consulted Anne, who never seemed considered by the others as having any interest in the question.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

“La Carconte, on the contrary, rose, and going with a firm step towards the door, opened it, saying, as she did so: “‘Come in, dear M. Joannes.’
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But what does she care, as long as he can be beautiful and have admirers!”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

V ARIANTS : Diríase; se creería; se pensaría.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

“It's nine dollars,” said Carrie.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Il faut des systèmes costauds, bien pourvus en mémoire, avec des microprocesseurs puissants.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The terrified women and children flee for life, the men huddle them inside a circle, and, on the principle of fighting the devil with fire, they swing blazing firebrands in the air, yell, whoop, and make frantic dashes at the marauding and bloodthirsty devils, so creating a terrific spectacle, and striking great fear into the hearts of the assembled hundreds of women, who are screaming and fainting and clinging to their valorous protectors.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

In the upper part of the room, stood a divan ornamented with gems, on which the Emperor's daughter, Shou Ch'ang, was wont to sleep, in the Han Chang Palace Hanging, were curtains embroidered with strings of pearls, by T'ung Ch'ang, the Imperial Princess.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

If the existing judicial tribunals are inadequate to this purpose, a special court may be authorized, with power to hear and decide such claims of the character referred to as may have arisen under treaties and the public law.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

“There is but one thing to do, Cousin David,” she cried.
— from Peggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

"I've got all the portières, table covers, couch covers, scarfs and doilies," she called.
— from Greenacre Girls by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

"Bon Dieu!" said Champlain, "you swear well for a Reformer!"
— from France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman

There was a very large thorn-tree, growing near a spring 118 at the side of a hill, close to which a species of rude cottage had been built into the hill, so that it had the appearance of being—and perhaps was—the way by which those who had the right, and the will to do so, could enter into the bowels of the earth.
— from River Legends; Or, Father Thames and Father Rhine by Brabourne, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, Baron

"But at last a day shall come which will cut away this power, and all these will be left wretched orphans.
— from Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

—Nowhere do social contacts so readily provoke conflicts as in the relations between the races, particularly when racial differences are re-enforced, not merely by differences of culture, but of color.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

You are all so difficult, so caged, so—dead!"
— from The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood