Yo’ pappy would sell him to somebody, some time, en den he’d go down de river, sho’, en I couldn’t, couldn’t, couldn’t stan’ it.”
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

[3] «La Gloria de don Ramiro,» a work which, although written by an Argentine, depicts the life and people of Spain in the sixteenth century.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

But we say that they are happy if they rule justly; if they are not lifted up amid the praises of those who pay them sublime honours, and the obsequiousness of those who salute them with an excessive humility, but remember that they are men; if they make their power the handmaid of His majesty by using it for the greatest possible extension of His worship; if they fear, love, worship God; if more than their own they love that kingdom in which they are not afraid to have partners; if they are slow to punish, ready to pardon; if they apply that punishment as necessary to government and defence of the republic, and not in order to gratify their own enmity; if they grant pardon, not that iniquity may go unpunished, but with the hope that the transgressor may amend his ways; if they compensate with the lenity of mercy and the liberality of benevolence for whatever severity they may be compelled to decree; if their luxury is as much restrained as it might have been unrestrained; if they prefer to govern depraved desires rather than any nation whatever; and if they do all these things, not through ardent desire of empty glory, but through love of eternal felicity, not neglecting to offer to the true God, who is their God, for their sins, the sacrifices of humility, contrition, and prayer.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

[2] En nuestros días, es muy variado y extenso el panorama de la novela en América, donde si bien es verdad que algunos escritores como Enrique Rodríguez Larreta, el discutido autor de «La gloria de don Ramiro», [3] eligen o prefieren temas exóticos, la mayoría de los que al género novelesco se dedican ha sabido encontrar en el marco de las costumbres nacionales asuntos múltiples que esperaban ser explotados.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Nestor alone continues in the field in great danger: Diomed relieves him; whose exploits, and those of Hector, are excellently described.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The best known of his works are "Poetischer Hausschatz des Deutschen Volkes" (Leipzig, 1839); "Hausschatz Deutscher Prosa" ( ib. , 1855) and "Geschichte des Deutschen Romans," Jena 1843.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

“No, sir.” “Are you quite sure?” “Oh, yes, sir.” “Has anyone else in the house got a green dress?” Dorcas reflected.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Good day, Doctor Rank.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

Struggling up the front of the house, through the virginian creeper and old Gloire de Dijon rose, were the bare branches of a yellow jasmine.
— from How the Garden Grew by Maud Maryon

Charles G. Davis " did rescue," and the above named George Lunt made oath to the truth of the facts .
— from Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave: Held in Boston, in February, 1851. by Charles G. (Charles Gideon) Davis

[195] FOOTNOTES: [170] Emmanuel de Gondy, Due de Retz, and General of the Galleys, was the grandson of the celebrated Maréchal Gilles de Laval, Baron de Retz, who, under Charles VII, greatly contributed to the expulsion of the English from France, but who subsequently suffered strangulation by a decree of the ecclesiastical tribunal of Nantes for his frightful debaucheries.
— from The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII — Volume 2 by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

His grandfather was Albert de Gondi, Duc de Retz, Marquis de Belle Isle, a Peer of France, Marshal and General of the Galleys, Colonel of the French Horse, First Gentleman of the Bedchamber, and Great Chamberlain to the Kings Charles IX.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Suppose you have de painter who take de looking-glass; and when you look in him, glue down de reflection dare for ever!—de natural colour, de natural drawing, de light and de shade?
— from Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Robert Montgomery Bird

Guy de Dammartin re-established the donjon tower called Maubergeon, now cut off at the third story.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly