Oneguine's cheek grew ashy pale, Either she saw not or ignored; Oneguine wasted; on my word, Already he grew phthisical.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Again, people leap over the bonfires as a preventive of colic, and look at the flames steadily in order to preserve their eyes in good health; and both colic and sore eyes are in Germany, and probably elsewhere, set down to the machinations of witches.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

"About now he'll be eating grapefruit and poached egg," said the boy.
— from Scattergood Baines by Clarence Budington Kelland

“I’se got a pair er sneakers dat you kin wear, Missy,” Uncle Abe announced.
— from Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway Case by Dorothy Wayne

I then procured her address, visited her home, where I found her godmother, and proposed—" "Enough, sir!
— from A Cardinal Sin by Eugène Sue

You go and play 'em somewhere else.'
— from The Lady of the Barge and Others, Entire Collection by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

The cells contain a transparent liquid through which minute solid particles of various 222 shades of green are pretty evenly scattered.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

So we may hold to these things when they are held with a temperate will; for whatever God has made is good and perfect, except sin, which was not made by Him, and therefore is not worthy of love.
— from Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint

But when it comes to the theater, in many respects the Russians—" "—Like to make a proposal to our mutual advanceage—" "—You wouldn't find an actor there playing a lead role one season and then not be able to get any parts except summer stock and odd bits for the next two years.
— from My Fair Planet by Evelyn E. Smith

There had been little gatherings and parties ever since the plane that brought her back had landed at the Marchton airport.
— from The Adventure Girls in the Air by Clair Blank

Contents: General advice; Physical exercise; School of the soldier; School of the squad; School of the company; Fire superiority; The service of security; Attack and defense; General principles of target practice; Practice march or “hike”; Officers’ reserve corps.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various