y me pidió noticias and asked for information de don Luis.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Ne sciante kion fari, ili demandis de la dioj.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

p. 427,) and the actual jurisprudence of France, in Denissart, (Decisions, &c., tom. iv.
— 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

The case is the same, as when we correct the different sentiments of virtue, which proceed from its different distances from ourselves.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

But may not human education fix the fine ideal of an equal maximum of freedom for every human soul combined with that minimum of slavery for each soul which the inexorable physical facts of the world impose—rather than complete freedom for some and complete slavery for others; and, again, is not the equality toward which the world moves an equality of honor in the assigned human task itself rather than equal facility in doing different tasks?
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

And this long row seemed particularly hard work to Levin; but when the end was reached and Tit, shouldering his scythe, began with deliberate stride returning on the tracks left by his heels in the cut grass, and Levin walked back in the same way over the space he had cut, in spite of the sweat that ran in streams over his face and fell in drops down his nose, and drenched his back as though he had been soaked in water, he felt very happy.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

To tear a piece off from such fabric, two distinct forces, in different directions, will be, in almost every case, required.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

When I mingled with other families, I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and gratitude assisted the developement of filial love.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

With this I am very well pleased, for I did desire it, and so I shall choose other counsel.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Alabama was full of chills and fevers in dem days and we drunk catnip tea for fevers and blue and white sage.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

The anecdote alluded to will be found in Dr. Dibdin’s Bibliographical Tour, vol. iii.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

My Administration has worked through the Interagency Coal Task Force Study, which I created, to promote cooperation and coordination of resources between shippers, railroads, vessel broker/ operators and port operators, and to determine the most appropriate Federal role in expanding and modernizing coal export facilities, including dredging deeper channels at selected ports.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Ich erscheine nur von Zeit zu Zeit Dann muss ich wieder fort in die Dunkelheit .
— from Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

For I do detest—" She interrupted him gaily.
— from Cape of Storms: A Novel by Percival Pollard

[Pg 159] "Well, I don't want to see him,—not with my things all torn off and looking like this," said Flaxie, in deep discouragement.
— from Kittyleen Flaxie Frizzle Stories by Sophie May

En delo tote Proton ego Kai Homeros aoidoi Melpomen, says Hesiod: "Then first in Delos did I and Homer, two Aoidoi, perform as musical reciters."
— from The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

This interesting young female welcomed her visitor with a clammy “Come in,” and led the way up stairs, he following, in due dread of being for ever extinguished by an avalanche of unwashed keelers and kettles, which were unsteadily piled up on the landing, and which an incautious touch would have toppled over, and deluged the stairs with unknown sweet-smelling compounds, whose legitimate destination was the sewer.
— from The Witches of New York by Q. K. Philander Doesticks

I feel it gittin’ on my fingers fo I drap dat straw!” said another.
— from The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865-1900 by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.