"This forest is perfectly delightful," declared the Lion, looking around him with joy.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

In his left hand he holds a plasterer’s bucket on which is printed Défense d’uriner.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

L'homme n'est jamais moins misérable que 25 quand il paraît dépourvu de tout —Man is never less miserable than when he appears destitute of everything.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Of the truth whereof he assured Aeschines; as Plato, in Critone, Cicero, in Primo, de Divinatione, Diogenes Laertius, and others, have to the full recorded in their works.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Tear in pieces , dispecigi, disŝiri.
— from English-Esperanto Dictionary by J. C. (John Charles) O'Connor

A ce propos, mon service, celui de la bibliothèque, a eu récemment des séances de travail avec l'équipe informatique pour discuter de l'implication de la bibliothèque dans l'animation du site.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

On the other hand, in spite of Bazarov's domineering manner, all the servants had become attached to him, for they felt him to be less a barin than their brother; and in particular did Duniasha readily joke and talk with him, and throw him many meaning glances as she sped past in quail-like fashion, while Peter himself, though a man full of conceit and stupidity, with a forehead perpetually puckered, and a dignity which consisted of a deferential demeanour, a practice of reading journals syllable by syllable, and a habit of constantly brushing his coat; even Peter, I say, would brighten and strike an attitude when he was noticed by Bazarov.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Now set out, and when you reach the conical hut ( bumbun ) say— “My hut’s name is the Magic Prince, My decoy’s name is Prince Distraction, Distraught be ye, O Kapor 47 (pigeon), Distraught be ye, O Puding 47 (pigeon), Distraught be ye, O Sarap 47 (pigeon), Distraught (with desire) to enter our bundle.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Sed enim 10 Tarquinius id multo risit magis dixitque anum iam procul dubio delirare .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

On July 30, a single jaeger flew over the lake and after hovering above a young Arctic loon, which had strayed from its parent, dove down and picked it up.
— from Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern Alaska by James W. Bee

But the paper was old, much folding and handling had worn the creases through, and when, in his haste, the secret robber grabbed it, whilst that loathsome creature held the old man down, it parted directly down the middle, and he got only a vertical section of each of its many pages."
— from Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew

[73] See the little book of curious learning by Alessandro d'Ancona, entitled I Precursori di Dante , Firenze, Sansoni, 1874.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds

Joy and jollity Courting privity, Then is polity; Down declivity Reigns frivolity!
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

Every province is again subdivided into prefectures, departments, districts, and townships under small Mandarins, and into village communes under Headmen.
— from Newfoundland to Cochin China By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

Like the Académie Française, the Academic Committee has its parti des ducs , and it mourns the loss of an exquisite amateur, George Wyndham.
— from Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse

The Dauphin dined with her, and each branch of the family had its public dinner daily.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

"Sir," said an incautious person, "drinking drives away care, and makes us forget whatever is disagreeable.
— from Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by William Black