a frowzy, ugly, disorderly, depressing scene
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The astral world is free from unwilling death, disease, and old age.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

During Kett’s rebellion in Norfolk, in the reign of Edward VI., a song was sung by the insurgents in which the term occurs— “The country GNOFFES , Hob, Dick, and Hick, With clubbes and clouted shoon, Shall fill up Dussyn dale With slaughter’d bodies soone.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

And, seeing upon the water, where it reflected the wall, a pallid smile responding to the smiling sky, I cried aloud in my enthusiasm, brandishing my furled umbrella: "Damn, damn, damn, damn!"
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

, faire usage de; donner de l'occupation à. empocher , mettre en poche.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

During Kett’s rebellion in Norfolk, in the reign of Edward VI., a song was sung by the insurgents in which the term occurs— “The country GNOFFES , Hob, Dick, and Hick, With clubbes and clouted shoon, Shall fill up Dussyn dale With slaughtered bodies soone.”
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Emphasis is on major international offerings available through services and networks like the Internet, BITNET, CompuServe, Echo, FidoNet, Usenet, Dialcom, Dow Jones/News Retrieval, MCI, NewsNet and UUCP.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The other presses hotly on his stealthy errand, and now bent his way towards Messapus' comrades, where he saw the last flicker of the fires go down, and the horses tethered in order cropping the grass; when Nisus briefly speaks thus, for he saw him carried away by excess of murderous desire; 'Let us stop; for unfriendly daylight draws nigh.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The little girl whom Adrian had rescued from utter desertion, during our ride through London on the twentieth of November, died at Auxerre.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This moment it was falling from my very feet into the void—falling, falling, unupheld, down, down, through the moonlight, to the ghastly rock-foot below!
— from The Flight of the Shadow by George MacDonald

—sagt der Franzose, und der Deutsche fragt: „Um Vergebung, was ist Ihre geneigte Ansicht hierüber?“ Der zweite Tenor sprach das alles in einem Atemzug und so drollig, daß alle lachten.
— from Eingeschneit: Eine Studentengeschichte by Emil Frommel

I asked her if she would be willing for me to cross the plains; She said she would be truthful until I returned again; She said she would be faithful until death did prove unkind, So we kissed, shook hands, and parted, and I left my girl behind.
— from Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads by Various

The development of Arthropoda may be accompanied by striking metamorphosis, e.g. , in many marine Crustacea, but, as in other animals, the terrestrial and fluviatile forms usually develop directly.
— from The Structure and Life-history of the Cockroach (Periplaneta orientalis) An Introduction to the Study of Insects by L. C. (Louis Compton) Miall

Quant uous estes a lescole, uous festes uostre deuoir dapprendre uostre lesson.
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

The Republic had certainly fallen upon dark days.
— from Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Willard W. Glazier