"Whose voice hast thou stolen for thy murmurs and miserable petitions, as if Lady Eleanore could be conscious of mortal infirmity?
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Is Little Eyes choking?' cried Miss Jenny.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Klasse im Luftverkehr economy class zweiter Gang second gear zweitrangig second rate zweitrangig secondary zweizeilig double-spaced zwingen squeeze zwingend compulsory zwischen den
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Of "Henry IV.," Part 2, he says: "If Lord Eldon could be supposed to have written the play, I do not see how he could be chargeable with having forgotten any of his law while writing it."
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Indifferent, like every child, to every one but himself, he takes no interest in any one; his only peculiarity is that he will not pretend to take such an interest; he is less deceitful than others.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

267 “Non inter Lunam et Saturnum, sed inter Lunam et cœlum affixarum stellarum, medium esse Solem modo dixerat.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

desbancar t supplant (in love etc.), cut out.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Sed nolo diutius hanc movere sentinam, hinc illae lachrymae, lugubris musarum habitus, [2101] hinc ipsa religio (quod cum Secellio dicam) in ludibrium et contemptum adducitur, abjectum sacerdotium (atque haec ubi fiunt, ausim dicere, et pulidum
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

His body is represented by some fossil bones of animals or reptiles, such as the deltas of the rivers flowing into Lake Eyre contain, according to Howitt.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In this way the world may harness the gray matter of its best men, and it will be no uncommon thing to see a dozen brainy men tied up in a row in the back office of an intellectual syndicate, dropping pregnant thoughts into little electric coffee mills for a couple of hours a day, after which they can put on their coats, draw their pay, and go home.
— from A Guest at the Ludlow, and Other Stories by Bill Nye

Galeotto fù il libro, e chi lo scrisse ...
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

All the water used in these villages, except such as is caught during showers in the basin-like water pockets of the mesa top, is laboriously brought up these trails in large earthenware canteens slung over the backs of the women.
— from A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Victor Mindeleff

[275] The son of the fourth brother, who remained in Judaism till late in life, embraced Christianity in Germany.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

“What a mercy it is,” Lady Enid continued lightly, “that Malkiel is a syndicate, instead of a man.
— from The Prophet of Berkeley Square by Robert Hichens

Omnis illa Deo grata Et dilecta civitas Plena modulis in laude Et canore jubilo, Trinum Deum Unicumque Cum favore praedicat.
— from Hymni ecclesiae by John Henry Newman

The page of this volume is fourteen inches by eight, and three reviews thirteen inches long exactly cover it, leaving a little space for the name of the journal and the date.
— from A Likely Story by William De Morgan