Yet the curious reader may consult Daille de Uus Patrum, l. ii. c. 4.]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

—Hoy no se trabaja—gritó una volcando de un puntapié la cesta de la costura. 91 —Es lo mismo que decir, "mañana no se come"—añadió la mayor, recogiendo los enseres.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

no, la compasión me habría impulsado a desafiar el furor y las intrigas de su terrible hermana de usted, porque la pobre Rosario,
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

It is clear that our sensations, considered as irregular appearances of physical objects, share the causal dependence belonging to comparatively distant appearances; therefore in our sensational life we are in causal dependence upon physical laws.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

In the treatise of Zypœus , de Notitia juris Belgici , lib. xii., quoted also in Menetrier , Recherches du Blazon , p. 218, we find the following:— "Ut secundo et ulterius geniti, quinimo primogeniti vivo patre, integra insignia non gerant, sed aliqua nota distincta, ut perpetuo linæ dignosci possint, et ex qua quique descendant, donec anteriores defecerint.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

None of these poets have built castles of stone, whatever they may have done under poetical license.
— from Genius in Sunshine and Shadow by Maturin Murray Ballou

Legal system: based on French civil law system and customary law Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Pascal LISSOUBA (since August 1992); election last held 2-16 August 1992 (next to be held August 1997); results - President Pascal LISSOUBA won with 61% of the vote head of government: Prime Minister Jacques Joachim YHOMBI-OPANGO (since 23 June 1993) cabinet: Council of Ministers; named by the president Legislative branch: bicameral National Assembly (Assemblee Nationale): election last held 3 October 1993; results - percentage vote by party NA; seats - (125 total) UPADS 64, URD/PCT 58, others 3 Senate: election last held 26 July 1992 (next to be held July 1998); results - percentage vote by party NA; seats - (60 total) UPADS 23, MCDDI 14, RDD 8, RDPS 5, PCT 2, others 8 Judicial branch: Supreme Court (Cour Supreme) Political parties and leaders: Congolese Labor Party (PCT), Denis SASSOU-NGUESSO, president; Pan-African Union for Social Development (UPADS), Pascal LISSOUBA, leader; Association for Democracy and Development (RDD) -
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

and I found that I had landed in a dusty, untidy place, littered with old books and papers," he continued.
— from The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World by Margaret Vandercook

Now those who can truly and honestly say, that they never do use profane language, of any kind, may take their seats."
— from The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

We all knew then that even to keep a safe lead until sunset, it would do us precious little good; for in a clear starlight night our pursuer could follow us almost as well as by day.
— from The Great Quest A romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea by Charles Boardman Hawes