Dans un newsgroup, la rencontre d'un Japonais qui devait venir en France, et qui préparait son voyage.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

I was exceedingly mortified to find myself in danger of perishing through the ignorance and cowardice of these clowns; and felt my spirits decay apace, when an old woman entered the barn, followed by the two fugitives and with great intrepidity advanced to the place where I lay, saying, “If it be the devil I fearen not, and for a dead mon a can do us no harm.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

CLEINIAS: How so? ATHENIAN: I think that I am not wholly in want of a pattern, for when I consider the words which we have spoken from early dawn until now, and which, as I believe, have been inspired by Heaven, they appear to me to be quite like a poem.
— from Laws by Plato

It was an uncarpeted room of tolerable dimensions, with a large writing-table drawn up near the fire, the baize top of which had long since lost all claim to its original hue of green, and had gradually grown gray with dust and age, except where all traces of its natural colour were obliterated by ink-stains.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Poscia ch'io ebbi il mio dottore udito nomar le donne antiche e ' cavalieri, pieta` mi giunse, e fui quasi smarrito.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

—Sí, pues cada república hispano-americana le ha dado un nombre distinto: le llaman sombrero de pelo en la Argentina, colero en Chile, cubeta en Méjico, buche en el Ecuador, y en otras partes chistera , galera , sorbete , bolero , y qué sé yo cuántos
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Ubique periculum, ubique dolor, ubique naufragium, in hoc ambitu quocunque me vertam.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And, for the miracles of prophecy, these require no evidence and depend upon none: they carry their own evidence along with them; they utter their own testimonies, and they are continually reinforcing them; for, probably, every successive period of time reproduces fresh cases of prophecy completed.
— from Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey

Thus we kept up our hopes, and did not abate of our vigilance; and as the 7th of March was Sunday the beginning of Passion-week, which is observed by the Papists with great strictness, and a total cessation from all kinds of labour, so that no ship is permitted to stir out of port during the whole week, this quieted our apprehensions for some days, and disposed us not to expect the galleon till the week following.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

You have delivered us, now save yourself." SNOW-WHITE AND ROSY-RED.
— from Fairy Tales From all Nations by Anthony R. (Anthony Reubens) Montalba

At noon home to dinner, and after dinner all the afternoon within, with Mr. Hater, Gibson, and W. Hewer, reading over and drawing up new things in the Instructions of Commanders, which will be good, and I hope to get them confirmed by the Duke of York, though I perceive nothing will effectually perfect them but to look over the whole body of the Instructions, of all the Officers of a ship, and make them all perfect together.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 73: April/May 1669 by Samuel Pepys

Qu'on me donne un nouvel Alcide, Je gage qu'il file
— from Manners: A Novel, Vol 3 by Madame Panache

But the lowered blind was a sorry substitute for the time of rest, and brought him no light, refreshing sleep, so, in the spirit, he occupied his customary chair at the office, writing and receiving cheques, drawing up new circulars, and ordering the clerks about in the abrupt, peremptory manner he thought proper to adopt towards subordinates—the wife included.
— from The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

“They deserted us night before last.
— from The Cabin on the Prairie by C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson

"I would also add the following: "Neither hath the Treachery of one Man so far discouraged us, nor the easiness of certain others being seduced by him so much weakened us, as that We should accept a dishonorable Peace.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover