5 ada — particle expressing resignation to s.t. bad and indicating the speaker doesn’t care.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

You're casting your eye round the shop, Mr Wegg.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Pain distorted her face, Siddhartha's eyes read the suffering on her mouth, on her pale cheeks.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

That picture remains for ever graven upon my mind; I can assert with truth that everything remains the same in my heart as the night I first became yours.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Kinglake was in Cairo many years ago during an epidemic of the Black Death, and he has imagined the terrors that creep into a man’s heart at such a time and follow him until they themselves breed the fatal sign in the armpit, and then the delirium with confused images, and home-dreams, and reeling billiard-tables, and then the sudden blank of death: “To the contagionist, filled as he is with the dread of final causes, having no faith in destiny, nor in the fixed will of God, and with none of the devil-may-care indifference which might stand him instead of creeds—to such one, every rag that shivers in the breeze of a plague-stricken city has this sort of sublimity.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

The effects, therefore, of a capital employed in such a round-about foreign trade of consumption, are, in every respect, the same as those of one employed in the most direct trade of the same kind, except that the final returns are likely to be still more distant, as they must depend upon the returns of two or three distinct foreign trades.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Even now hostile voices are being raised against philosophy, exclaiming: “Return to science, to nature, and the naturalness of science!” and thus an age may begin which may discover the most powerful beauty precisely in the “savage and ugly” domains of science, just as it is only since the time of Rousseau that we have discovered the sense for the beauty of high mountains and deserts.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Note 26 ( return ) [ Cantoclarus, with his usual accuracy, chooses to translate three hundred thousand: his version is equally repugnant to sense and to grammar.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry; All beat their breasts, and echoes rend the sky.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

The courtiers of the two brothers, alarmed by these demonstrations of attachment to Irij continually before their eyes, represented to Sнlim and Tъr that the army was disaffected towards them, and that Irij alone was considered
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Firdawsi

Women had not found it difficult to fall in love with him; his reticence, his enigmatical reluctance to speak out, the sympathetic sullenness of his face, a certain painful sensibility which shot like distressed nerves across his cheeks and forehead and tugged at the restless corners of his eyelids, seemed to attract them as to something which they could perhaps find out, and then soothe, and put to rest.
— from Spiritual Adventures by Arthur Symons

Its metal parts were finally melted down by the Parliament Commissioners a hundred years later, but the marble sarcophagus lingered on, and was eventually removed to St. Paul's Cathedral in London, and utilized in the monument of Lord Nelson.
— from Early Renaissance Architecture in England A Historical & Descriptive Account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, & Jacobean Periods, 1500-1625 by J. Alfred (John Alfred) Gotch

My good fortune excited Robbie to such a degree that he would not be satisfied without again trying a shot.
— from The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands by Robert Leighton

Miss Pratt had now been a visitor at the Parchers' for something less than five weeks, but she had made no mention of prospective departure, and there was every reason to suppose that she meant to remain all summer.
— from Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William by Booth Tarkington

She was one of those fortunate beings who invariably through life see more smiles than frowns, more laughter than tears, for the two excellent reasons that she was always, even when herself tired or bored past the general freezing-point of politeness, alert to amuse and to be interested in other people; the second because she studiously avoided all people and places where frowns and tears were likely to be of the party.
— from The Relentless City by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

What he hankered after was the title of Duke of Austerlitz, but the Emperor refused to share the glories of that day.
— from Napoleon's Marshals by R. P. Dunn-Pattison

Our alliance with Europe remains the strongest the world has ever known.
— from State of the Union Addresses of Barack Obama, 2009-2016 by Barack Obama

No one ever received the slightest individual injury.
— from England and Canada A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster, with Historical Notes by Sandford Fleming