Mr. Prohartchin confessed that he was a poor man on this occasion, he said, simply because the subject had come up; that the day before yesterday he had meant to borrow a rouble from that impudent fellow, but now he should not borrow it for fear the puppy should brag, that that was the fact of the matter, and that his salary was such that one could not buy enough to eat, and that finally, a poor man, as you see, he sent his sister-in-law in Tver five roubles every month, that if he did not send his sister-in-law in Tver five roubles every month his sister-in-law would die, and if his sister-in-law, who was dependent on him, were dead, he, Semyon Ivanovitch, would long ago have bought himself a new suit....
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

By one of the vicissitudes common in the history of family residences everywhere, Mr. Secretary Jarvis's house, which we just now passed, became afterwards the place of business of a memorable cutler and gunsmith, named Isaac Columbus.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

“For riches!” echoed Mrs. Munt, having, as it were, at last secured her nut.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Among the latter were the majestic and genial General Jeremiah Johnson, with others, Gabriel Furman, Rev. E. M. Johnson, Alden Spooner, Mr. Pierrepont, Mr. Joralemon, Samuel Willoughby, Jonathan Trotter, George Hall, Cyrus P. Smith, N. B. Morse, John Dikeman, Adrian Hegeman, William Udall, and old Mr. Duflon, with his military garden.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

( Gu 192) = fæsten ± fæstan to fasten, make firm, ratify, establish , MkL, LkL : entrust, commit : ‘ fast ’ (‘ i-fast ’), abstain from food , A, Bl, Lcd ; CP: atone for ( by fasting ), Da 592. fæste (e) ‘ fast ,’ firmly, securely , BH, Bo ; Æ: straitly, strictly : heavily ( sleep ).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The accusative of direction of motion is used after nouns from roots expressing motion: Lia eniro en la urbon estis subita , his entrance into the city was sudden .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Scribonius Largus ( Comp. liii) is equally pessimistic: Ad dentium dolorem quamvis plurimi dicant forcipes remedium esse, multa tamen citra hanc necessitatem scio profuisse.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

The monarch in excessive ire, His eyes with fury darting fire, Rained every missile on the foe
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Was surprised to find it so little formal, really enjoyed my evening.”
— from Wives of the Prime Ministers, 1844-1906 by Lucy Masterman

"And there ain't a woman in the Mile End Road as 'ud a-done it cheaper, with bread at fourpence threefarden a quartern and landlords clamorin' for rent every Monday morning almost afore the sun's up and folks draggin' and slidderin' on till their shoes is only fit to throw after brides, and Christmas comin' and seven-pence a week for schoolin'!"
— from The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill

Given that same number of Russians, two hundred and fifty, put them in that same sized room, their mattresses in four rows, each mattress flush against the other, transport that shed into Russia and leave those men there without German supervision to make them keep reasonably clean, and you would get one result—cholera.
— from Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany by Edward Lyell Fox

“I happened to be in the bank the other day when the girl was begging Wentz for time on the loan which Mormon Joe had contracted for running expenses,” Mr. Pantin explained with somewhat elaborate carelessness.
— from The Fighting Shepherdess by Caroline Lockhart

We at last tore ourselves asunder from repeated embraces; my friend retired with the soul whom he loves,--I remained alone behind him with the Night.
— from The Campaner Thal, and Other Writings by Jean Paul

———— George Joslin ending up his days with dreams Of youth in Europe, travels, and with talk, Stirred to a recollection of a face He saw in Paris fifty years before, Because the face resembled Elenor Murray’s, Explored his drawers and boxes, where he kept Mementos, treasures of the olden days.
— from Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters

[18] I use the term commissioner as equivalent to the French représentant en mission, whose powers were almost limitless.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

This is the first remittance ever made from America by an English colony.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

Mrs. Trotter fitted our ad first rate except, maybe for beauty and age and property valuation.
— from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry

Come, farewell, Reine, embrace me, my child; say to my brothers that I hope to take them by the hand to-morrow.”
— from The Knight of Malta by Eugène Sue