The curate sent for me, and fearing another scene I greeted him curtly in Tagalog.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

In the morning, worn out with fatigue and sorrow, I got up, and as soon as I was dressed I went to M. F——, who had sent for me to give me some orders.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

So, after a great deal of time lost in searching for a stone, I gave it over, and resolved to look out for a great block of hard wood, which I found, indeed, much easier; and getting one as big as I had strength to stir, I rounded it, and formed it on the outside with my axe and hatchet, and then with the help of fire and infinite labour, made a hollow place in it, as the Indians in Brazil make their canoes.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Interim fit aliquid —- Something is going on meanwhile.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I could conjure up no comparison that would convey to my mind a satisfactory comprehension of the magnitude of a pile of monstrous stones that covered thirteen acres of ground and stretched upward four hundred and eighty tiresome feet, and so I gave it up and walked down to the Sphynx.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

And now the rain poured as from a sieve, in great, swift drops; then the thunder roared and the drops united; now like straight s
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

We proceed from the SELF, in order to lose and find all self in GOD.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Death would come like the slow approach of a corpse, stealing gradually towards him through the forest, and showing its ghastly and motionless features from behind a nearer and yet a nearer tree.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Rev. A.F.A. Woodford, a F∴ M∴, happened to be turning over the contents of a second-hand bookstall in Farringdon Street when he came upon some cypher MSS., attached to which was a letter in German saying that if the finder were to communicate with Sapiens Dominabatur Astris, c/o Fraulein Anna Sprengel, in Germany, he would receive further interesting information.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

CHAPTER XII MUCH WONDERING Through the splintered and tangled crisscross of beams, planks and boards which barred their way to freedom, as some iron grill or lattice work might have kept in some ancient prisoner, the Khaki Boys looked at the man who had shouted to them; the man who had said he would rescue them.
— from The Khaki Boys over the Top; Or, Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam by Gordon Bates

The country to the east was a great snow upland, sloping upwards for a distance of seven or eight miles to a height of over 4000 ft. To the north it fell away steeply in glaciers into the bays, and to the south it was broken by huge outfalls from the inland ice-sheet.
— from South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917; Includes both text and audio files by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

Cool, strain, freeze, and serve in glasses.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

he sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
— from The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by James E. (James Edward) Talmage

Stock name for a slave in Greek comedies.
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 04 by of Samosata Lucian

This march, in which he followed a single Indian guide, must have led him to the foot of the rough, mountainous, granitic, and mineral region, at the sources of the St. Francis.
— from Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

On July 19th I left for the Continent, to labour for a season in Germany, and returned to Bristol on Oct 11th.
— from A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 4 by George Müller

If it is intended for a simple Indian girl, it had best be asked among the lodges of her people.
— from At War with Pontiac; Or, The Totem of the Bear: A Tale of Redcoat and Redskin by Kirk Munroe

"That is a 'feat accomplished,'" said Ishmael gayly, as he returned to Judge Merlin's room, after seeing Marinello out; "and now we may expect Mr. Tourneysee every moment."
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth