PECHON , PESCHON DE RUBY , apprenti gueux, enfant (sans doute dérobé).”
— 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

In general, every stimulus directs activity.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

You won't go to give evidence,” Smerdyakov decided with conviction.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Josef K. Psychologische Grundlegung eines Systems der Wert-Theorie.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The rest of the party passed through the dimly lit drawing-room to talk and smoke in the gallery beyond, George Eliot sat down in the darkness, and I beside her.
— from A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

He published a curious work called Les illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye, avec la Couronne Margaritique et plusieurs autres œuvres .
— from The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne

For, as I looked, the good green earth seemed dying— Dying or dead; And, as I looked on the old boat, I said:— " Dear God, it's I! "
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

It is beauty impersonized to her; she pours out gems and flowers of words, and sketches grotesquely exquisite shapes dimly all over the landscape, coins all the beautiful fancies that crowd her brain, throws them to Goethe sparkling in the sunlight, and says: This is music, and finds at last that music is God.
— from Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm and Concord by George William Curtis

Co'se he smell de grapes en see de vimes, an atter dahk de fus' thing he done wuz ter slip off ter de grapevimes 'dout sayin' nuffin ter nobody.
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

But He'll git 'em some day sure as—" "Am I interrupting any confidence between you and the Mrs. Biddies, Mr. Alloway?"
— from Rose of Old Harpeth by Maria Thompson Daviess

Fa la! (Gavotte.) (After Gavotte, enter Sir Despard.)
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

If you are German, English, Scotch, Dutch, American, French or whatever you are, you will find fellow countrymen among its 250,000 souls.
— from Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White