Figúrese usted que recibe el susto y que además le quedan algunos huesos quebrantados, sin nada de heridas graves se entiende... pues en tal caso, o se acobarda y huye de Orbajosa, o se tiene que meter en la cama por quince días.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Them did the glistening serpents Enfold in their coils!
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Christie talked, and the good soul enjoyed that far more than her dinner, for she meant to ask Mr. Power to help her find the right sort of home for the stranger whose unfitness for her present place was every day made more apparent to the mind of her hostess.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

They came to Whydah with a St. George ’s Ensign, a black Silk Flag flying at their Mizen-Peek, and a Jack and Pendant of the same: The Flag had a Death in it, with an Hour-Glass in one Hand, and cross Bones in the other, a Dart by it, and underneath a Heart dropping three Drops of Blood.—The Jack had a Man pourtray’d in it, with a flaming Sword in his Hand, and standing on two Skulls, subscribed A B H and A M H i. e. a Barbadian ’s and a Martinican ’s Head, as has been before taken Notice of.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Then it is impossible that God should ever be willing to change; being, as is supposed, the fairest and best that is conceivable, every God remains absolutely and for ever in his own form.
— from The Republic by Plato

But to follow this direction was to go south, exactly opposite to that part of the coast where Harding might have landed.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The two children, who were neither of them very good sailors, experienced sensations that were the reverse of pleasant.
— from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

The most glorious system ever invented by the wit of man!
— from Industrial Conspiracies by Clarence Darrow

"The mind can only be trained to this by close study of campaigns, and by the solution of definite problems on maps and on the ground" (General Sir E. B. Hamley).
— from Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 by Anonymous