How much will it be?' 'Eighteen hundred dollars apiece.' 'Heavens and earth!
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

tinos d' heneka toioutoi gegonasin, Erasistratos men oud' epecheirêsen eipein, hêmeis d' eroumen.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

There was not lacking an evil rumor that his Excellency had decided to take some action, since in this he saw the first symptoms of a rebellion which should be strangled in its infancy, that a fruitless hunt hurt the prestige of the Spanish name, that he already had his eye on a wretch to be dressed up as a deer, when his Excellency, with clemency that Ben-Zayb lacked words to extol sufficiently, dispelled all the fears by declaring that it pained him to sacrifice to his pleasure the beasts of the forest.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Testing shows that these dreams have suffered by distortion to an exceptionally high degree.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Apropos of this last, let me confess, Mr. President, before the praise of New England has died on my lips, that I believe the best product of her present life is the procession of seventeen thousand Vermont Democrats that for twenty-two years, undiminished by death, unrecruited by birth or conversion, have marched over their rugged hills, cast their Democratic ballots and gone back home to pray for their unregenerate neighbors, and awake to read the record of twenty-six thousand Republican majority.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The enemy had distributed his force as follows:
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

It seemed to him that he was the first who had discovered this pleasure, and he was enjoying his discovery.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

2. But on the third year, upon hearing that the king of the Babylonians made an expedition against the Egyptians, he did not pay his tribute; yet was he disappointed of his hope, for the Egyptians durst not fight at this time.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

( Then in tones tremulous with emotion ) How did he git out so soon?
— from Goat Alley: A Tragedy of Negro Life by Ernest Howard Culbertson

His experiments had developed nothing; chance was to make the revelation.
— from Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe

"Perhaps you had better not press me to explain myself," answered Duncan with a calmness that emphasized his determination.
— from A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs by George Cary Eggleston

Eet vas like he tread on me, eet hurt dat vay.
— from Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West by Randall Parrish

When the Poor Brother came in, they picked him up at once, and put him over one of the hottest fires, and began to turn him round and round like the rest; and of course the Chief Man came up to him and said, "Eh, how do you feel now?
— from How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell by Sara Cone Bryant

They found Sarba lying as near as possible in the position where she had exploded her depth-charge, and where her sweep had brought her up.
— from Submarine and Anti-submarine by Newbolt, Henry John, Sir

M. Gambetta fell by the way, but the evil he did lives after him.
— from France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert

With a perversity which only such men know, such heart as he had turned to the unknown Quaker girl who had rebuked him, scathed him, laid bare his soul before himself, as no one ever had done.
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete by Gilbert Parker