Poi mi tento`, e disse: <e fe' di se' la vendetta elli stesso.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

[4] codiciosas; el aventurero procaz roza el modesto traje del simple dependiente con los estirados faldones de su levita presuntuosa; el insular petimetre ostenta su bigote rizado a tijera [5] bajo la mirada aguda del periodista burlón que prepara su crónica sensacional, husmeando todas las conversaciones; el anciano enriquecido por largos años de duro trabajo comenta, con la frialdad del egoísmo que dan los años, esa crónica diaria de la Bolsa, muchas de cuyas páginas están escritas con sangre
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"Why did our earnings fall down so low last year?"
— from Mary Minds Her Business by George Weston

In reply to Lord Morpeth's declaration concerning the duty of the State to provide education for Dissenters so long as it fingered their gold, Mr. Gladstone said that if the State was to be regarded as having no other functions than that of representing the mere will of the people as to religious tenets, he admitted the truth of his principle, but not that the State could have a conscience.
— from The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook

When he gave them a graphic account of his narrow escape from discovery, she looked upon it as a certain proof that God was watching over them.
— from The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. (Ellen Hardin) Walworth

5 s. RAMSDEN’S ENGINE for Dividing Straight Lines .
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

II.4 “Conscioscia che l’arte e mestier delle carte & figure stampide, che se fano in Venesia è vegnudo a total deffaction, e questo sia per la gran quantità de carte a zugar, e fegure depente stampide, le qual vien fate de fuora de Venezia.”
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

I don't feel a bit like fighting giants to-day, and besides I promised to be home early for dinner ." Strenuous Life in the West.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 by Various

The lad paused for a moment, and then said, avec intention , as the stage directions express it, "Mais lui aussi, il est fils de St. Louis; n'est-ce pas?"
— from Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1) by Frances Milton Trollope