Don Quixote takes more pride in his rusty spear and skin-and-bone horse than in gold and lands, and a samurai is in hearty sympathy with his exaggerated confrère of La Mancha.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

He first compelled him to submit to his unnatural lust, and then ordered him to be executed, crying out, “Let my mother bestow her kisses on my successor thus defiled;” pretending that he had been his mothers paramour, and by her encouraged to aspire to the empire.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, Tholomyès’ merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with this melancholy strophe:— “Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses Ont le même destin; Et, rosse, elle a vécu ce que vivant les rosses, L’espace
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

So the brothers took their palkis to the river side and shut themselves in, and each called out “Let me have the deepest place, brother.”
— from Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas

Ere turning from the eleventh chapter of Leviticus, my reader might, with much spiritual profit, compare it with the tenth chapter of Acts, ver. 11-16.
— from Notes on the Book of Leviticus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

[17] First, five-eighths of a centumpondium of copper and two and three-quarters centumpondia of lead are taken; and since one liquation cake is made from this, therefore two and a half centumpondia of copper and eleven centumpondia of lead make four liquation cakes.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

[330] By a sort of sixth sense, he foresaw the growth of the ugly but enterprising city on Lake Michigan.
— from Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics by Allen Johnson

With the editorial cooperation of Lewis M. Terman.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

from his illness, an aviary, a cascade elaborately constructed of large masses of rock, a fountain copied after one in Rome, and a temple of Diana.
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

Wassamo was living with his parents on the shores of a large bay on the east coast of Lake Michigan.
— from Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian by Anonymous

Gnassingbe Eyadema, Cite OUA, Lome mailing address: B. P. 852, Lome; 2300 Lome Place, Washington, DC 20512-2300 telephone: [228] 261-5470 FAX:
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency