—¿Gozan los extranjeros de especiales derechos?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Upon every one of these anniversaries, the venerable Baroness Von Swillenhausen was nervously sensitive for the well-being of her child the Baroness Von Koeldwethout; and although it was not found that the good lady ever did anything material towards contributing to her child’s recovery, still she made it a point of duty to be as nervous as possible at the castle of Grogzwig, and to divide her time between moral observations on the baron’s housekeeping, and bewailing the hard lot of her unhappy daughter.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

O honte, un lansquenet Gauche, et parodiant César dont il hérite, Gouverne les esprits du fond de sa guérite!" These manuscripts are lost.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

But grant the host with wealth the general load, Except detraction, what hast thou bestow'd? Suppose some hero should his spoils resign,
— from The Iliad by Homer

The prospect of ever getting out a 481 satisfactory history grows less each day....
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

I was given "Les Enfants des Bois," by Elie Berthet in French, to translate word for word.
— from Confessions of a Book-Lover by Maurice Francis Egan

“Me an' Milt get lost every day,” said Roy.
— from The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey

Are ye not sendin' them in the heighth of good livin' every day?”
— from Back to Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce

Patents have also been granted for electric smelling bottles, an adhesive plaster, for electric spectacles, scissors, a foot warmer, hair singer, syringes, a drinking cup, [98] a hair cutter, a torch, a catheter, a pessary, gas lighters, exercising devices, a door mat, and even for an electric hair pin and a pair of electric garters.
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn

She was gay longer every day than when the two of them had been being gay.
— from Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein

A few days after Gilbert left England, Dorothy accidentally encountered Lord Wilton on the heath.
— from The World Before Them: A Novel. Volume 2 (of 3) by Susanna Moodie