Jean Valjean pictured to himself the whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. “Impossible!” said he.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He now will call each faithful friend, Enter the city, and attend With sage advice and prudent care To every task that waits him there.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

here! ê-dûcô, -ere, -dûxî, -ductus [ ê , out , + dûcô , lead ], lead out, draw out ef-ficiô, -ere, -fêcî, -fectus [ ex , thoroughly , + faciô , do ], work out; make, cause ef-fugiô, -ere, -fûgî, -fugitûrus [
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

ē-dūcō, -ere, -dūxī, -ductus [ ē , out , + dūcō , lead ], lead out, draw out ef-ficiō, -ere, -fēcī, -fectus [ ex , thoroughly , + faciō , do ], work out; make, cause ef-fugiō, -ere, -fūgī, -fugitūrus [ ex , from , + fugiō , flee ], escape egeō, -ēre, -uī , ——, be in need of, lack , with abl.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

So when the new Minister of War proposed, and the Chamber of Deputies passed, an ordinance that made it illegal to buy a substitute, and required every Frenchman, from eighteen to twenty-one years of age, to serve in the army, the peasant found small consolation for the loss of his sons' services in the thought that the son of a duke must serve as well as the son of a laborer.
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

The fat used, olive oil, lard, etc., should be entirely neutral, i. e. , free from every trace of acid.
— from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity by C. (Carl) Deite

The ground is exceptionally rich in gold, and it offers every facility for extracting the metal.
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

A hole ten feet broad from north to south, eight feet from east to west, and nearly three feet deep was the result of their work, the excavated stuff being banked north and south, so that if the wind blew up from either quarter, there would be less drift of sand into the hole.
— from Vanderdecken by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

The ammunition shoes, the grey trowsers, the coarse linen, and the stiff leathern stock encircling the neck, attested the sufferer to be a soldier of the garrison; but it was not until the face had been completely denuded of its unsightly covering, and every feature fully exposed, that that soldier was at length recognised to be Harry Donellan, the trusty and attached servant of Captain de Haldimar.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 1 by Major (John) Richardson

(Tr. 28) Eternal flowers, flowers equal to the gods
— from The Book of Masks by Remy de Gourmont