Who knows what this hot little General is meditating? Dumouriez Duke of Belgium or Brabant; and say, Egalite the Younger King of France: there were an end for our Revolution!—Committee of Defence gazes, and shakes its head: who except Danton, defective in suspicion, could still struggle to be of hope?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

" "Such beautiful ears, doctor, dear," interjected Susan with a relish.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

She rang the bell, and a woman, middle-aged but well-dressed and respectable-looking, laid out a table for two persons; she then placed on another table close by all that was necessary to enable us to do without attendance, and she brought, one after the other, eight different dishes in Sevres porcelain placed on silver heaters.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Every day ducal incomes sift and sparkle through the fingers of those young girls; yet they go to bed at night as poor as they were when they got up in the morning.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

exclaimed Dick Dennehy in scorn indescribable.
— from Mrs. Maxon Protests by Anthony Hope

Dey don't have no sech gwines-on now, suh. Ef dey did, I 'speck
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, October 1899 by Various

La constante calificación de cultura que ha servido de principal requisito al ejercicio del poder, ha impedido que éste caiga en manos mercenarias o bajo el dominio de inteligencias sin cultura que degradasen su función
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

On comparing maps V , VI and VII an eye duly directed is struck by a difference in the aspect of the lines.
— from Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell

Or, take another Sabbath-day entry: ‘Die Dom. I stayed at home, because of the time, and the observation, and the Earl of Moray . . .
— from Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Alexander Whyte

With Artemia I still must live a servant; but enjoying Divinest Dorothea, I shall rule, Rule as becomes a husband: for the danger , Or call it, if you will, assured destruction , I slight it thus.—If, then, thou art my friend, As I dare swear thou art, and wilt not take A governor's place upon thee
— from The Plays of Philip Massinger, Vol. I by Philip Massinger