In the course of the evening Rawdon got a little family-note from his wife, which, although he crumpled it up and burnt it instantly in the candle, we had the good luck to read over Rebecca's shoulder.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I was serene in the midst of the scoldings that were heaped upon the Ottoman government for its affront offered to a pleasuring party of entirely respectable gentlemen and ladies I said, “We that have free souls, it touches us not.”
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Ante todo, la disposición geográfica del territorio americano que va desde el Río Grande a la Tierra del Fuego, no permite fácilmente la cohesión de muchos millones de hombres en una misma comunidad de ideales sociales, artísticos, religiosos; el hombre es hijo de las condiciones climatéricas en que vive, y a lo largo de [1] la América latina hay individuos que se tuestan doce meses al sol, y otros que tiritan de frío, y hay recios escaladores de montañas y míseros palúdicos de los pantanos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"I am coming back at Easter," replied George, and looked at her.
— from The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler

“He didn't say?” echoed Rhoda Gray, a little tartly.
— from The White Moll by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

The commissariat have made up their minds that all servants and followers must be Hindoos, and therefore abstainers from meat, and so issue no meat whatever in their rations—nothing, indeed, except rice, grain, a little flour, and a little ghee.
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Foreigners, artists, men from everywhere, roved, gazed, and listened, shared.
— from Foes by Mary Johnston

He would, for example, rather give a large sum than read to the end of Homer's Iliad,—the ceaseless repetition of battles, speeches, and epithets like well-greaved Greeks, horse-breaking Trojans; the tedious enumeration of details of dresses, arms, and chariots; such absurdities as giving the genealogy of a horse while in the midst of a battle; and the appeals to savage and brutal passions, having soon made the poem intolerable to him (vol.
— from Memories and Studies by William James

SEE Groves, Ernest R. GUERARD, ALBERT LEON.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1956 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

And also where as the said sp iri tuall Ordinaries do daily conferre and geve sundry benefices vnto certen yong folkes calling them their Nephews or Kynsfolkes being in their mynorite and w i t h in age not apt ne able to S er ue the Cure of any suche benefice Wherby the said ordinaries do kepe and deteyn the frutes & p ro fittes of the same benefices in their owne handes and therby accumulate to themselff es right grete and large so m mes of money & yerely p ro fittes to the most p er nicious exsample of all yo
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

When he has made choice of a situation, he applies to the governor of the district, who orders the proper officers to mark out the extent required, generally a league or a league and a half square, sometimes more.
— from Travels in the interior of Brazil with notices on its climate, agriculture, commerce, population, mines, manners, and customs: and a particular account of the gold and diamond districts. by John Mawe