Faithful to her promise, she either came to see me, or met me somewhere near, once every week, and never empty-handed; but many and bitter were the disappointments I had, in being refused permission to pay a visit to her at her house.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Cuando se quiere arrendar a la derecha, se pasa el hico por sobre el cuerno derecho, y cuando a la izquierda, por sobre el cuerno izquierdo.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

There he published some excellent chemical treatises, and essays upon such subjects as the calculus, sea-scurvy, consumption, catarrh, and fever.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Atrebates to Bedlis Vol. 1 Part 3 by Various

I am led to this conclusion by a careful study of all the pictographs in which this deity appears; they all seem to show that it is Itzamna wearing a mask to indicate some one manifestation of his power (see especially Cod.
— from A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

He was the old man not 101 afraid of eternity; and the prospective extended term of payment, if happily payment should ever come at all, was a prime element in adjusting margins of profit.
— from The Army Mule, and Other War Sketches by Henry A. (Henry Anson) Castle