[98-4] Por todas estas razones necesito que me acompañe un español fiel y leal, de cuya vida sea yo dueño y a quien pueda hacer ahorcar con media palabra; un español, en fin, como tú, Juan Falgueira, que, 30 después de todo, nada adelantaste con robar ni matar, pues trabajas aquí como un asno, cuando con los millones que voy a proporcionarte podrás irte a América, a Francia, a la India, y gozar, y triunfar, y subir tal vez hasta rey.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Everyone did watch and ward, and not one was exempted from carrying the basket.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Eternal becoming, endless flux, characterises the revelation of the inner nature of will.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

This was the name given to the volcanic plain extending from Cumæ to Capua, and supposed to have been once covered with fire; whence the name, from φλέγω , “to burn.”
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

" "Nay, brother," said the elder from Canterbury; "the hoar-frost and the black frost hath done its work on Brother Adam and Sister Martha, even as we sometimes discern its traces in our cornfields while they are yet green.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

De Thévenot writes in this entertaining fashion concerning the use of the drink in Turkey in the middle of the seventeenth century: They have another drink in ordinary use.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

"Podbliudni pessni," are literally "dish songs," or songs used with dishes (of water) during the "sviatki" or Holy Nights, which extend from Christmas to Twelfth Night, for purposes of divination.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

And it must be confessed, that, in the present case of freezing, the event follows contrary to the rules of analogy, and is such as a rational Indian would not look for.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

The remaining eight publications in the Clarendon Press Series which have also been indexed are those marked C, C2, C3, W, W2, P, H, and G; i.e. three books containing extracts from Chaucer, two books containing parts of Wyclif’s Bible, part of Piers Plowman, Hampole’s Psalter, and Gamelyn; the full titles of which are given below.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

It was a good two hours' job getting all the sections with their guns, ammunition and various extras finally collected together in the dark a mile back, ready to put all the stuff in the limbers, and so back to billets.
— from Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather

"It is liable to stop any day now, and then, till the ice is thick enough for crossing, there will be no way of getting over."
— from The Voyage of the Rattletrap by Hayden Carruth

The priest consecrates the elements, by laying his hand upon all the bread, and upon every flagon containing the wine about to be dispensed.
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom

'Neath agèd oak of Elderslie Five centuries tell the tale How, at the name of Scotland's Chief Her enemies turned pale.
— from Carols of Canada, Etc., Etc. by E. S. (Elizabeth Susan) MacLeod

Injurious effect from kiln-drying fir cones, 108 A principle of selection existing in nature of the strongest varieties for reproduction, 109 Injurious effect from the plants spindling in the seed-bed and nursery line, 111 Injurious effect from cutting the roots and from pruning, ib.
— from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting by Patrick Matthew

England finally changed to the Gregorian calendar in 1752.
— from The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 by Philip Doddridge

Under its early Flemish Counts, the history of Ghent was, on the whole, one of rapid and almost uninterrupted expansion.
— from The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces by Edward Neville Vose

The weather, which had been unprecedentedly bad all summer, now became even worse, and although short periods of calm lasting an hour or less occasionally occurred, there were for several weeks no calm periods long enough for completing the necessary preparations and making a test, although the time required for assembling the aerodrome had been greatly shortened by building the “wing boxes” on the superstructure, and in other ways previously described.
— from Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Parts I and II Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volume 27 Number 3, Publication 1948, 1911 by Charles M. (Charles Matthews) Manly

I allude to "Life in London; or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis," by Pierce Egan.
— from The Romance of Book-Collecting by J. Herbert (John Herbert) Slater