Algunos países establecen que todo extranjero que ejerce algún oficio o profesión, o que posee propiedad raíz o capital en giro, es considerado ciudadano, a menos que aquél manifieste su propósito de conservar su nacionalidad original.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

No greater evil could befall a nation.—Translator's Note.]
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Christianity, appealing to all bloods, in [Pg 613] some measure to all economic classes, and spreading into all sections of the eastern Mediterranean region, did not to any great extent create communities.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

At length, just as they neared the house, General Epanchin came out and met them; he had only just arrived from town.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The cottage seemed to be considered and loved by him as his home; many more of his hours were spent there than at Allenham; and if no general engagement collected them at the park, the exercise which called him out in the morning was almost certain of ending there, where the rest of the day was spent by himself at the side of Marianne, and by his favourite pointer at her feet.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Ammianus describes the city as of no great extent, (civitatis ambitum non nimium amplae.)
— 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

With 24 Illustrations in Colour by G. E. Collins, R.B.A. Crown 4to.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

The Prince's will to execute Goes every class of beast and brute.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

He indeed imbued himself with Greek; everywhere he industriously and at great expense collected many Greek books.
— from The Eve of the Reformation Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII by Francis Aidan Gasquet

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— from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

And in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begins to cast a beam on the outward shape.”
— from Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in British Heraldry by John Vinycomb

In any place where troops are billeted it becomes necessary to immediately construct incinerators, either of brick or metal, where all rubbish in the shape of empty jam-tins, garbage, etc., can be destroyed and, after being thus burnt, is buried.
— from The Motor-Bus in War Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half Years at the Front by A. M. Beatson

384 The great heats of the dog-days have parched the ground; every creek has become a shallow, except here and there where in a deep hole the salmon and the trout have found a retreat; the sharp, slimy angles of multitudes of rocks project, as if to afford resting-places to the Wood-ducks and Herons that breed on the borders of these streams.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) by John James Audubon

Older MSS. of the Greek Euchologion contain numerous prayers to be offered over animals sacrificed; and in the form of agape such sacrifices were common in Italy and Gaul on the natalis dies of a saint, and Paulinus of Nola, the friend of Augustine, in his Latin poems, describes them (c. 400) in detail.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

If Thyrza’s heart gits broke I’ll give her a bit of mine to mend it with—but no good ever caum of talking of such things.”
— from The Four Roads by Sheila Kaye-Smith

I shall hold you fast by the throat, and drink and drink until I see your glassy eyes close, and your cheeks turn whiter than ashes, and I feel your heart flutter like a leaf in your bosom!
— from A Little Boy Lost by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

On the third night in the asteroid—the third night by ship-time, since there was neither day nor night in the great empty corridors of the fortress—Burke dreamed his dream again.
— from The Wailing Asteroid by Murray Leinster

One of the most remarkable features of the great electioneering contest of 1784 was the fact of the ex-demagogue Wilkes being returned as the ministerial candidate, to Pitt’s pronounced gratification too, for the county of Middlesex.
— from A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria by Joseph Grego