Few portions of the globe attest more powerfully the force exerted by the action of waters to subdue every obstacle, than a view of the rock-bound channels of these streams in this adamantine barrier.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

And, while the archdeacon was disappearing in one direction, he set off in the other, saying to himself in a low voice: “Here’s a grand affair, Monsieur Pierre Gringoire.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Gipahimútang ang mga pagkáun sa pridyidir, The food was put away carefully in the frigidaire.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For my part, I am ready to engage for thee all these my goods and my person, to boot, for as much as he will lend thereon; but how wilt thou assure him of the rest?'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

"In this way love should be less gay and more passionate."
— from On Love by Stendhal

"Illustrious Venetians," said the marshal of Champagne, "we are sent by the greatest and most powerful barons of France to implore the aid of the masters of the sea for the deliverance of Jerusalem.
— 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

Íyang gilistúnan ang mga piktiyur prim, He attached the mouldings (around the sides) of the picture frame.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Then she gave a most piteous cry, and running to me, she began to pull at me with her little hands.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

At last we went booming through the Golden Gate, and my pulses leaped for joy.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

And that our visitor was a lady of easy virtue I could see from her smile, from her scent, from the peculiar way in which she glanced and made play with her eyelashes, from the tone in which she talked with my wife—a respectable woman.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"'Twill be a mad Parliament, gentlemen, a mad Parliament," said one reverend doctor, as the news was definitely made known in Oxford that that place had been selected by King and Barons as a neutral spot where the adjourned Parliament should meet.
— from A Clerk of Oxford, and His Adventures in the Barons' War by Evelyn Everett-Green

“Well, then, your highness,” returned Baba boldly, “feeling that my income was not quite so good as my position at Court required, and desiring earnestly to increase it without further taxing the resources of your highness’s treasury, I ventured to make the request which I did, and the result has been—has been—most satisfactory.”
— from The Pirate City: An Algerine Tale by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

HOW GEOFFREY AND MONA PLAN
— from Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

The Amanuensis states that you are a lover of silence—and that ours is a noisy house—and she is a chatterbox—I am not answerable for these statements, though I do think there is a touch of garrulity about my premises.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

So, too, you will remember, how we built the great Kraal of Ekupumuleni, and subdued all the tribes round about, and sat in our fair resting-place, feared as a great and mighty people.
— from The White Shield by Bertram Mitford

"I wish she had been living," observed Mr. Carless, with a glance at Mr. Pawle.
— from The Middle of Things by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

God, a man passes himself off as one—I. 80 , 573.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

The vote was closer than close—didn’t pass, but they had to stay till the next day at two—we stayed too, and in the morning—of the last day—we got a majority petition from the Florida legislature which showed Trammell and Fletcher that Florida wanted their Suffrage votes.
— from The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore

We have no hesitation in saying that a great artist might produce a portrait of this remarkable woman at least as striking as that in the novel of Kenilworth, without employing a single trait not authenticated by ample testimony.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron