The French explosion, like the English one, got its King,—who had no Notary parchment to show for himself.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

[A; a] put on false eyebrows, line the eyebrows.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Stare the sun for example like the eagle then look at a shoe see a blotch blob yellowish.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

J'ai développé ces deux matières car elles correspondent à des études que j'ai, entre autres, faites en leur temps, et parce qu'il se trouve que, depuis une dizaine d'années, j'exerce des fonctions de professeur dans l'enseignement public (18 établissements de la 6e
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

This was the Shinnár[EN#6] (caccabis), a partridge as large as a pheasant, and flavoured exactly like the emigrant from Phasis.
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

From each landing, the explorer turns to the succeeding flight of steps, until he arrives within the gloomy chambers below, to which he is admitted by a large stone door.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 2, August 1837 by Various

By six o’clock in the morning in summer he began to find enough light to enable him to trace the minutiæ of natural objects.
— from The Structure and Life-history of the Cockroach (Periplaneta orientalis) An Introduction to the Study of Insects by L. C. (Louis Compton) Miall

[435] But Susa, which in spite of its numerous population was inhabited only to a small extent by Persians, required to be fortified even less than Ecbatana.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6) by Max Duncker

Then he said that we were not to return evil for evil, lest the evil rebound upon ourselves with redoubled force.
— from My Religion by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For example, let the effect a be crystallization.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill