After waiting half a minute I, too, emerged from the bushes; but what was my amazement when I saw lying on the red sand of the path a sealed packet, which I recognized, from the first glance, as the one that had been given to Mme.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sa igbaw sa lamísa, On top of the table.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

‘Use bronze only for instruments, for it seems laboured ornamentation to use vessels of it.’
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

General G. Mason Graham is still living on his plantation, on Bayou Rapides, old and much respected.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Nor is the scene from which we quote interesting, in dramatic probability alone; it is susceptible likewise of a sound moral; of a moral that has more than common claims on the notice of a too numerous class, who are ready to receive the qualities of gentlemanly courage, and scrupulous honour, (in all the recognised laws of honour,) as the s
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

After that day I was for some weeks—eight or nine as I remember—very much with Caddy, and thus it fell out that I saw less of Ada at this time than any other since we had first come together, except the time of my own illness.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Well, I shall stay for half an hour ... even for an hour; I shall leave, of course, before supper; but they will be bustling about, baking and roasting, they will be making low bows, but I will only drink a glass, congratulate them and refuse supper.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But, when once freed, the illumined soul looks out— Its cry will be, ‘O God, how could I doubt?’
— from Poems of Optimism by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In most ships there is a spare emergency axe kept in the master’s room in some locker or other. . .
— from Within the Tides: Tales by Joseph Conrad

What was the relation between the great banquet of Pereire & Co., this train full of statesmen, literati, and other distinguished men, this blast of the press heralding a great and joyful event in the commercial life of the French nation,—and this old patched-up ship, with its scant load of commonplace and evidently old Franco-Mexican tradesmen, lying in lonely dullness against the gray sky on that gloomy evening?
— from Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 by Sara Yorke Stevenson

We must, perforce, conclude that in the Philippines, as in other countries, it is simply lack of vocations that keeps the number of the native clergy at such a low ebb.
— from The Friars in the Philippines by Ambrose Coleman

(2) The commencing formation of the cells which form the axial skeleton from the inner (splanchnopleuric) layer of the muscle-plate.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

"While all this sounds like a Fourth of July celebration to us, safe as we are, it spells lots of terrible wounds for the poor fellows who are in the fight.
— from The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields by John Henry Goldfrap

This crisis in Spanish literature, occasioned by the struggle between Italian refinement and the bold eccentricity of the national manners, occurred in the age of Cervantes.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

SEELCHEN is still lying on the window seat.
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy