la` venne uscir li orecchi de le gote scempie; cio` che non corse in dietro e si ritenne di quel soverchio, fe' naso a la faccia e le labbra ingrosso` quanto convenne.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Yet I have seen palates, otherwise not uninstructed in dietetical elegances, sup it up with avidity.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Now the beloved is taken captive in the following manner:— As I said at the beginning of this tale, I divided each soul into three—two horses and a charioteer; and one of the horses was good and the other bad: the division may remain, but I have not yet explained in what the goodness or badness of either consists, and to that
— from Phaedrus by Plato

I did everything she asked me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Todos saludaron al ingeniero, demostrando en sus palabras y actitudes que satisfacían, al verle, la más viva curiosidad.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

In the eventful period of the siege and defence of Antioch, the crusaders were alternately exalted by victory or sunk in despair; either swelled with plenty or emaciated with hunger.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It stands in contrast with an immediate, direct experience, something in which we take part vitally and at first hand, instead of through the intervention of representative media.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Nothing works a more complete and penetrating disaster than every “impersonal” duty, every sacrifice before the Moloch of abstraction.—To think that no one has thought of Kant’s categorical imperative as dangerous to life !...
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Miss Peck doesn't find it dull either,” said I. Molly Wood immediately assumed a look of doubt.
— from Lin McLean by Owen Wister

“Bacchus” and “Ceres,” in Daremberg et Saglio, Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines .
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

At a time when a grievously traduced Faith had triumphantly emerged from the two severest crises it had ever known, one the work of enemies without, the other the work of enemies within, when its prestige had risen to a height unequalled in any period during its fifty-year existence, the unerring Hand which had shaped its destiny ever since its inception was suddenly removed, leaving a gap which friend and foe alike believed could never again be filled.
— from God Passes By by Effendi Shoghi

Greece had ships, colonies, and commerce; but Phœnicia had ships, colonies, and commerce in days earlier still.
— from The Chief Periods of European History Six lectures read in the University of Oxford in Trinity term, 1885 by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

"Why, yes, Mrs. Jollisole," I answered; "I did enjoy some rather extensive prospects last night."
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

“I don't know as I do, either,” she admitted.
— from Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln