The vases on the stone terrace in the foreground catch the rain all day; and the heavy drops fall—drip, drip, drip—upon the broad flagged pavement, called from old time the Ghost's Walk, all night.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

En réponse à l'attitude de cette minorité haïtienne, j'ai créé sur mon site web Windows on Haiti deux forums de discussion exclusivement en kreyòl.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

He was born in New-York in 1793, graduated at Princeton in 1811, studied medicine in Edinburgh, London, and Paris, and returning to New York was the friend and associate of Dr. Post, Dr. Hossack, Dr. Francis, Dr. Delafield, and other eminent members of his profession, in establishing medical and surgical institutions, &c. He has left no writings in print or MS.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various

In Dublin it would not have done for Dick Dawson to allow the man who would have held his horse the day before, to share the same board with him merely because Fortune had played one of her frolics and made Andy a lord; but in London the case was different.
— from Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life by Samuel Lover

[Pg 259] flesh cleared his head, and while Tara was rending at the throat of his dying foe, David drew her swiftly out of the cage and flung about her the light jacket he had worn.
— from The Courage of Marge O'Doone by James Oliver Curwood

He asked him to procure the commission he desired from Don Diego, and let him know how truly he was his servant and friend.
— from The War of Chupas by Pedro de Cieza de León

I tink he won'er, and b'lieve he rile a little that a almanack-maker so easy get a five hundred dollars for Dortje Deypester.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

[57] had detailed for different duties in connection with the fête, commenced operations by clearing the enclosed ground of all unauthorized persons.
— from Hyde Park from Domesday-book to Date by John Ashton

—I heard a small boy singing to-day: "Wo liegt Paris, Paris liegt Hier, Den fingen drauf' Das nehmen Wir."
— from A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes by Jephson, Harriet Julia Campbell, Lady