Six days he remained without appearing in public, and one night as he lay awake thinking of his misfortunes and of Altisidora's pursuit of him, he perceived that some one was opening the door of his room with a key, and he at once made up his mind that the enamoured damsel was coming to make an assault upon his chastity and put him in danger of failing in the fidelity he owed to his lady Dulcinea del Toboso.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The body of Dionysus was buried at Delphi beside the golden statue of Apollo, and his tomb bore the inscription, “Here lies Dionysus dead, the son of Semele.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

RECORDED CHAPTER VI OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY CHAPTER VII OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS CHAPTER VIII WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO CHAPTER IX WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE CHAPTER X WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO ADOPTED TO ENCHANT THE LADY DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS AS THEY ARE TRUE CHAPTER XI OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE CAR OR CART OF "THE CORTES OF DEATH" CHAPTER XII OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS CHAPTER XIII
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote laughed at Sancho's boorish eulogies and thought that, saving his lady Dulcinea del Toboso, he had never seen a more beautiful woman.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

HARRY looks disapprovingly down into this openness at his feet, returns to his breakfast .
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

La main, de hand; les doigts, de fingres.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He ended frowning, and his look denounc’d Desperate revenge, and Battel dangerous To less then Gods.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Although Bhilwara has not attained that high prosperity my enthusiasm anticipated, yet the philanthropic Heber records that in 1825 (three years after I had left the country) it exhibited “a greater appearance of trade, industry, and moderate but widely diffused wealth and comfort, than he had witnessed since he left Delhi Delhi ”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Wull the geatman latt me in, to zee as thee hast vair plai, lad?' He looked doubtfully down at the colour of his cowskin boots, and the mire upon the horses, for the sloughs were exceedingly mucky.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

[86] Hinojosa, Los Despachos de la Diplomacia Pontificia, I, 330.—Danvila
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

This is the most useful part of man's career and as he grows older he loses the vigour he formerly possessed and at the end—in the Winter of his life droops down, grows weaker and weaker until finally his career is run and he has to join Mother Earth again to serve some new purpose in the organization of nature.
— from Extracts from the Diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858 by William C. (William Christian) Lobenstine

The precise rules which he lays down disappear, for the most part, on a wider induction, and we greatly question whether it be worth while to register and tabulate such minutiæ as do not represent in any way Shakespeare’s mind or hand, but only the caprices of this or that compositor, at a period when spelling, punctuation, and even rules of grammar, were matters of private judgement.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 1 of 9] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising by William Shakespeare

These you were at first eager to examine; but finding the side you took not so clear and well-established as you had imagined, displeased by contradiction, and, in the spirit of that gallantry which you profess to admire, being willing to appear complaisant to the female to whom you pay your addresses, you have lately declined discussion.
— from Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

And Eliphalet Q. Carpenter Earned his living digging ditch.
— from The Girls of Central High on the Stage; Or, The Play That Took The Prize by Gertrude W. Morrison

Hope long deferred did not make the hot temper of the wreckers any more amiable, and Eric, worried as he was with his own troubles, found life harder than ever.
— from The Wreckers of Sable Island by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

"This edition differs materially from that used by Herbert, which has led Dr Dibdin to the conclusion that there were two impressions."
— from The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Sebastian Brant