The schooner sailed from Liverpool on the tenth of July, crossed the Tropic of Cancer on the twenty-fifth, in longitude twenty degrees west, and reached Sal, one of the Cape Verd islands, on the twenty-ninth, where she took in salt and other necessaries for the voyage.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The first Lord of the Treasury thinking of ways and means, could not have returned home with a more embarrassed look.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

4. They find leaves on the tree, but they do not see the fruit.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

This lord swore allegiance to some still more powerful man, or “overlord,” and became his “vassal,” pledged to follow him to war with a certain number of armed men; and this overlord, on his part, owed allegiance to the prince, who was, perhaps, a duke or bishop (bishops at this time were also feudal lords), or to the king or emperor.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Ad vitam aut culpam (Lat., for life or till a fault), a formula often used in regard to appointments to posts or offices, intimating that they are held for life or till the person forfeits his position by some fault or misdeed.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

A nice thing—member of our family led off to the police station!
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment’s notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

In the navigation 56 from Venice and Zara, the fleet was successfully steered by the skill and experience of the Venetian pilots: at Durazzo, the confederates first landed on the territories of the Greek empire: the Isle of Corfu afforded a station and repose; they doubled, without accident, the perilous cape of Malea, the southern point of Peloponnesus or the Morea; made a descent in the islands of Negropont and Andros; and cast anchor at Abydus on the Asiatic side of the Hellespont.
— 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

He laid four louis on the table.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He told you his wife was dying for lack of things that money would buy and he stole for her.
— from The Solar Magnet by S. P. (Sterner St. Paul) Meek

Old Broadbrim In a Race for Life; or, The Thirteen Days' Fight.
— from Old Broadbrim Into the Heart of Australia or, A Strange Bargain and Its Consequences by St. George Rathborne

“Well I have got rather a fearful lot of things to do.” “Come and try it now, d’ye mind?” “Have your tea Ro, darling.”
— from The Tunnel: Pilgrimage, Volume 4 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

because, if he has, I feel myself called on to say that [Pg 61] it was not founded on fact—that that address was got up at a hole-and-corner meeting—that it did not express the opinions of the people of the town of Dudley—that his Majesty has been deceived and cajoled by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the first Lord of the Treasury; and I think it high time that his Majesty’s confidence should be disabused, and that he should be informed that such are not the sentiments of my Honourable Friend’s constituents.
— from The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860 Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc. by C. F. G. Clark

The interior country from Lake Ontario to the Gulf was added to no colony, and a special instruction forbade the governors to exercise jurisdiction west of the mountains.
— from Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Albert Bushnell Hart

We had perfect confidence in one another, and our funds lay open to the observation or handling of any one possessing the pass key in the match box.
— from Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

The first law of the tragic art was to represent suffering nature.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

The socialists and the literati create the demand that forces into the mass of vaudeville, light opera, historical and melodramatic plays a more serious art element, a simple transcript from life or the theatric presentation of a Ghetto problem.
— from The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York by Hutchins Hapgood

If we follow the discussion as it centres about the terms “nominal” and “real,” it stands as follows: Leibniz objects to the use of the term “essence” in this connection, but is willing to accept that of “definition;” for, as he says, a substance can have but one essence, while there may be several definitions, which, however, all express the same essence.
— from Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition by John Dewey