She smiled as her eye went from the scentless daisies, so pertly pretty, to her own posy full of perfume, and the half sad, half sweet associations that haunt these blue-eyed flowers.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

¡Se parecía a la de 25 los santos que el rey Nerón [7-8] echaba a los tigres, según dicen los padres predicadores.... Los bandidos sintieron moverse algo dentro de su pecho, pues se miraron unos a otros...; y viendo que todos estaban pensando la misma cosa, uno de ellos se
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Be silent always when you doubt your sense; And speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence: Some positive, persisting fops we know,
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Selden de diis Syris , Purchas' pilgrimage, [6506] Rosinus of the Romans, and Lilius Giraldus of the Greeks.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Transportadas a nuestros países, renovaron la sangre de la literatura española, diluyeron su pesadez, podaron sus floraciones excesivas y transformaron su aspecto, como una mujer delicada metamorfosea en boudoir propicio a la galantería el frío salón vetusto de un castillo con historia.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Then, before he let him go, he said, "Now, fare thee well, good Sheriff, and when next thou thinkest to despoil some poor prodigal, remember thy feast in Sherwood Forest.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

For had she done so poor Princess Baby would have burst into loud sobs; it was a very sore point with her that she had never had a mamma at all, whereas all the others, even Butter-ball, were perfectly sure they could remember their mother.
— from A Christmas Posy by Mrs. Molesworth

The characters technically known by printers as references are the following, which are used in the order here given:— Asterisk * Dagger † Double Dagger ‡ Section § Parallel ∥ Paragraph ¶ In Roman church-books, the Asterisk divides each verse of a psalm into two parts, and marks the place where the responses begin: this in the Book of Common Prayer is denoted by a colon placed between the two parts of each verse.
— from The American Printer: A Manual of Typography Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc. by Thomas MacKellar

On the most delicate, snowiest place possible, on the finest curtain there, I placed my Cecropia, and then stepped back and gazed at it with a sort of "Touch it over my dead body" sentiment in my heart.
— from Moths of the Limberlost: A Book About Limberlost Cabin by Gene Stratton-Porter

My dear sisters, pray permit them to come in; they will afford us diversion enough, and put us to little charge, because they desire shelter only for this night, and resolve to leave us as soon as day appears."
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Anonymous

Crown 8vo, cloth, 3 s. 6 d. Standard Practical Plumbing; being a complete Encyclopædia for Practical Plumbers and Guide for Architects, Builders, Gas Fitters, Hot-water Fitters, Ironmongers, Lead Burners, Sanitary Engineers, Zinc Workers, &c. Illustrated by over 2000 engravings.
— from Wrinkles in Electric Lighting by Vincent Stephen

But the English still indicate differences in size by such arbitrary and confusing names as brilliant , diamond , small pearl , pearl , ruby , ruby-nonpareil , nonpareil , minion-nonpareil , emerald , minion , brevier , bourgeois , long primer , small pica , pica , English , great primer and double pica .
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken