I fancy it will prove a costly frolic for Eilert Lovborg, crazy being that he is.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

[74] porque una barra de fango, formada en la desembocadura del río, impide la entrada de los transatlánticos al río, a
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The tenth day passed: the prince again Was free from every legal stain.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The public and private edifices, that were founded for eternity, lie prostrate, naked, and broken, like the limbs of a mighty giant; and the ruin is the more visible, from the stupendous relics that have survived the injuries of time and fortune."
— 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

Messrs. Ramsay and Whitaker have shown, and the observation is a most striking one, that the great lines of escarpment in the Wealden district and those ranging across England, which formerly were looked at as ancient sea-coasts, cannot have been thus formed, for each line is composed of one and the same formation, while our sea-cliffs are everywhere formed by the intersection of various formations.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Elli 'l serpente, e quei lui riguardava; l'un per la piaga, e l'altro per la bocca fummavan forte, e 'l fummo si scontrava.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Un des principaux problèmes auquel ces services doivent faire face est la très grande quantité d'informations.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Because there is no other way of guarding oneself from flatterers except letting men understand that to tell you the truth does not offend you; but when every one may tell you the truth, respect for you abates.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

That as for the Campanians indeed, they were undoubtedly vanquished more by circumstances flowing from excessive luxury and by their own want of energy than by the bravery of the enemy.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

You can handle this evasion effectively by going directly ahead and proposing, "I am perfectly willing that you should think over my usefulness to you, but during the week you are considering me for future employment, let me actually work on the job.
— from Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins

It would be the greatest comfort to all the sinners in front, for every last man of them—or woman—would think she was the one who was going to get away."
— from The Story of a Play A Novel by William Dean Howells

One after another he saw the heads of the families whom he had led forth from Egypt, laying their bones in the desert.
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

We are leading a gay, yet far from empty life, as is the way with happy people.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

[59] The inscription on the monument of Gonsalvo, Bishop of Sigüenza, contained the following passage: “Hic venerandus Pontifex fuit filius, ex legitimo matrimonio natus, Reverendi Pontificis Dñi Pauli,” &c. [60] Ceau Bermudez, Arq.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

One of his descendants, Frederick, first Elector, left this town in 1412 to take possession of Brandenburg, which the spendthrift Emperor Sigismund had sold him for 400,000 florins of Hungarian gold.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, January 1885 by Various

But the foure fearing exceedingly least he should betray something because they knew he suspected thē, endeuoured by all meanes to do him some priuie mischief by poyson giuen in his meate, & therefore they gaue him the sacrament dipped in poyson, which he presently cast vp againe by vomit: finally they so vexed and tormented him by so many wayes, that in the end he left the Colledge and ran away, and opened the whole matter to diuers and sundry men.
— from Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night And of Straunge Noyses, Crackes, and Sundrie Forewarnings, Which Commonly Happen Before the Death of Men: Great Slaughters, and Alterations of Kingdoms by Ludwig Lavater

The labor and immigration movement in its new aspect widened the field for economic legislation, for few States had factory laws, employers' liability laws, or laws protecting the weak,—the women and the children.
— from The New Nation by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson