La latina kaj germana lingvoj estas sufiĉe malfacilaj, kvankam ili estas tre interesaj kaj ankaŭ konataj de la kleruloj en multaj landoj.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

The ways that lead there, be they near or far, Above, below, by turnpikes great or small,— Love (though she had a cursed taste for war, And was not the best wife, unless we call Such Clytemnestra, though perhaps 't is better That one should die, than two drag on the fetter)— Love had made Catherine make each lover's fortune, Unlike our own half-chaste Elizabeth, Whose avarice all disbursements did importune, If history, the grand liar, ever saith
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Dat man dat bought me ain’t a bad man; he’s good enough, as planters goes; en if he could ’a’ had his way I’d ’a’ be’n a house servant in his fambly en be’n comfortable: but his wife she was a Yank, en not right down good lookin’, en she riz up agin me straight off; so den dey sent me out to de quarter 229 ’mongst de common fiel’ han’s.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

I did my key and did the perp-walk around the gang, letting everyone snap a pic.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

By Charles Darwin, M.A., Fellow Of The Royal, Geological, Linnaean, Etc., Societies; Author Of 'Journal Of Researches During H.M.S. Beagle's Voyage Round The World.' From the First Edition LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Picture galleries, like exedrae, should be constructed of generous dimensions.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

[FR] [FR] Gaëlle Lacaze (Paris) #Ethnologue et professeur d'écrit électronique dans un institut universitaire professionnalisé Ethnologue, Gaëlle Lacaze est spécialiste de la Mongolie.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

and he started back a step, for there was a tiny head and shoulders poked out of the keyhole, and two bright, glittering little eyes seemed to gaze at the clerk for a moment, and then popped in again.
— from Christmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches for the Season by George Manville Fenn

We have lately had several conversations, one in particular which, even while it seemed to place him in an amiable, sincere, and generous light, excited some of the very doubts and terrors of which I speak—If he be a hypocrite, he guards himself with a tenfold mask!—It cannot—No—It cannot be!—
— from Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

On the horizon, coming at moderate speed, but growing large enough so that there could be no error of identification, came the amphibian.
— from The Haunted Hangar Sky Scouts/Air Mystery series #3 by Van Powell

Let me feel your teeth, phew—” “Gordon,” Lettice exclaimed suddenly in a throaty voice, “I’m afraid....
— from Mountain Blood: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

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— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

The place consists of about twelve acres of very good land, especially suited for poultry, being somewhat sandy and sloping enough for drainage.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller

Apart from the lack of a military force in any one state of Greece large enough, sufficiently trained, and led by a leader of the necessary magnetism and genius for organization, to undertake, unaided by allies on the way, a successful march to a point many months distant from its base--apart from this deficiency, the Empire to be conquered had not yet been really shaken.
— from The Ancient East by D. G. (David George) Hogarth

Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
— from A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson