Starting hack in deep disgust, he brandished his crucifix in the face of the unmasked Fiend, and in a voice that made the dusky vault resound cried,— “Avaunt thee, Sathanas!
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

ꝓ il ſuo habito deſſerle ſempre fidelle facto queſto lo cap o donno aL re vna cathedra de veluta roſſo dicendoli ounque andaſſe ſemꝓ La faceſſe portare dinanzi avn ſuo piu porpinque et moſtroli Como La ſi doueua portare reſpoſe Lo farebe volentierj
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

These changes and this train de vivre required, as may be supposed, no small outlay; and I confess that I have little of that base spirit of economy in my composition which some people practise and admire.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

plusieurs , un nombre indéterminé; divers; V. reprises .
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Madame de Villefort had multiplied her questions in order to gain one answer, but to all her inquiries M. de Villefort remained mute and cold as a statue.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Le maître, de retour, surpris de ce que l'autre ne l'en avait pas empêché, lui en fit de violents reproches.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

We are thus enabled to collate with the text of the Rigveda directly handed down, various readings considerably older than even the testimony of Yāska and of the Prātiçākhyas.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Madame de Villefort received them with equal solemnity.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

When every resource, either of force or perfidy, was exhausted, Stoza, with some desperate Vandals, retired to the wilds of Mauritania, obtained the daughter of a Barbarian prince, and eluded the pursuit of his enemies, by the report of his death.
— 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

Then her clear deep voice rang out:— ‘My lord, I was the party that did it!’
— from Much Darker Days by Andrew Lang

Linen fibers draw in moisture quickly, and linen materials dry very rapidly.
— from Clothing and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making by Anna M. (Anna Maria) Cooley

Cardinal Merry del Val represents the most advanced and progressive thought of the day.
— from Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting

[coaxingly] Take it ever so easy, dear Viv. Remember: even if the rifle scared that fellow into telling the truth for the first time in his life, that only makes us the babes in the woods in earnest.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

The occasion was this:--An officer, in winter-quarters at Chateau-Thierry, one day read to him, with great spirit, an ode of Malherbe, beginning thus-- Que direz-vous, races futures, Si quelquefois un vrai discours Vous récite les aventures De nos abominables jours?
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

the deep voice roared, now angrily.
— 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

"Der ish somedings vot don'd vas right apoud dot vimmens," he soliloquized.
— from Fritz to the Front, or, the Ventriloquist Scamp-Hunter by Edward L. (Edward Lytton) Wheeler

19 juillet .—Je m'empresse de vous remercier de votre lettre, et de vous dire que je vous enverrai jeudi, à Dieppe, une voiture pour vous chercher à l'Hôtel de la Plage à deux heures après midi, à moins d'avis contraire.
— from Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Henry Reeve

Day v. Robinson, 12 N. J. L., 206. 367.
— from The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law: The Law of Church and Grave by Charles Martin Scanlan