Some distance farther west, on the north side of Cany fork and about ten miles above Webster, in Jackson county, is a rock known as Jutaculla rock, covered with various rude carvings, which, according to the same tradition, are scratches made by the giant in jumping from his farm on the mountain to the creek below.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

On Clare's return to his horse and gig, Izz jumped up beside him.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Gaudeamus igitur juvenestus.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Why did not God inform Joseph by "inspiration" instead of employing the roundabout way of sending an angel to do it? 10.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

"Complaining doesn't have to do good, it just feels good!
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Dílì siya madalìdálì kay bansay man sa dyúdu, You can’t overcome him just like that because he is good in judo.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Just at this instant, while their eyes were fix'd Upon each other, with dilated glance, In Juan's look, pain, pleasure, hope, fear, mix'd With joy to save, and dread of some mischance Unto his protege; while hers, transfix'd With infant terrors, glared as from a trance, A pure, transparent, pale, yet radiant face, Like to a lighted alabaster vase;— Up came John Johnson (I will not say 'Jack,' For that were vulgar, cold, and commonplace
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

When they had gone, I just opened the big pulpit Bible and read that 146th Psalm, and told them the circumstance of my selecting it.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I could stain my skin just a little so as to get it just the right colour, and shave my head and put on a pigtail.
— from With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The vail of the great temple was rent, the sun overcast, and the moon turned to blood; and in my ecstasy of passion, I could have shouted, Great is Jesus of Nazareth!!
— from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne

The waving plumes which adorned the hats of the 28 Senators, Counsellors of State, and Tribunes; the splendid uniforms of the military; the clergy in all their ecclesiastical pomp; and the multitude of young and beautiful women, glittering in jewels, and arrayed in that style of grace and elegance which is only seen in Paris;—altogether presented a picture which has, perhaps, rarely been equalled, and certainly never excelled.
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 2 (of 2) by John Ashton

I guess it just took a while.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

Carlisle was speedily retaken by the English troops, and its garrison, including Jemmy Dawson of Jacobite song, sent in ignominy to London.
— from From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England. by Katharine Lee Bates

Those who were in Hyde Park on the evening of the great Sunday gathering in July 1855, witnessed how effectually this singular manœuvre was executed under the orders of Captain Labalmondiere.
— from Curiosities of Civilization by Andrew Wynter

And the men who get these letters are ashamed to do wrong and to get into jail again, because of the disappointment they will cause the jailer who believes in them.
— from Fifty-Two Story Talks to Boys and Girls by Howard J. (Howard James) Chidley

From France he wrote an insolent letter to the English Government in justification of his breach of parole.
— from The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, Huntingdonshire. 1796 to 1816 by Thomas (Thomas James) Walker

God is just: He gave a second husband to the widow.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09 by Voltaire