'See!' said Eugene, 'miniature flour-barrel, rolling-pin, spice-box, shelf of brown jars, chopping-board, coffee-mill, dresser elegantly furnished with crockery, saucepans and pans, roasting jack, a charming kettle, an armoury of dish-covers.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

And then she gave Juanna a chaste kiss: Dudu was fond of kissing—which I 'm sure
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Sometimes in the aspect of the Starres at their Nativity; which was called Horoscopy, and esteemed a part of judiciary Astrology: Sometimes in their own hopes and feares, called Thumomancy, or Presage: Sometimes in the Prediction of Witches, that pretended conference with the dead; which is called Necromancy, Conjuring, and Witchcraft; and is but juggling and confederate knavery:
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

[So, after a birth (as the Pawang informed me), the young shoots of the jack-fruit ( kababal nangka ), the rose-apple ( jambu ), and certain kinds of banana (such as pisang abu and pisang Bĕnggala ), and the thin pulp of young cocoa-nuts ( kĕlongkong niyor ) are mixed with dried fish, salt, acid ( asam ), prawn-condiment ( b’lachan ), and similar ingredients, to form a species of salad ( rojak ).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Sigurd was received there joyfully, and chosen king at an Eyra-thing; and many gallant men, with their sons, attached themselves to his party.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The reverend Hugh C. Love walked from the old chapterhouse of saint Mary’s abbey past James and Charles Kennedy’s, rectifiers, attended by Geraldines tall and personable, towards the Tholsel beyond the ford of hurdles.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

[The Quest of the Absolute.] MERLE, captain in the Seventy-second demi-brigade; jolly and careless. Killed at La Vivetiere in December, 1799, by Pille-Miche (Cibot).
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Jews and Christians know the same God.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

He had been previously warned by a physician that any such strain would expose him to such a result, so that in meeting the duties and exigencies of his office at the time he did, he just as certainly knew that he was exposing himself to sudden death as the man who goes into battle.
— from Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher. by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Jamblichus, On the Soul, 2; Macrobius, Dream of Scipio, i. 5. 41 See Jamblichus, About Common Knowledge of Mathematics.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

Little Keats was now thirteen, with big joints and calf knees showing under the velvet pants, and I guess his curls was all that persuaded his mother to live, what with Shelley having gone to the bad and made a name for himself like Bugs.
— from Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson

Anyway, his home was a secret, his very own secret, and he didn't propose to let Happy Jack and Chatterer know where it was, even for a Thanksgiving dinner.
— from Happy Jack by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

There were cakes with jelly, and cinnamon kuchen, and cunning cakes with almond slices nestling side by side.
— from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber

Rick whirled just as Carrots Kelso came abreast of Dean's doorway.
— from Smugglers' Reef: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

Here, Señor Lefevre, President of the Panama Republic, Admiral Johnston and Colonel Kennedy, commanding the [16] American naval and military forces in the Panama Zone, also Engineer Colonel Harding, Governor of the Canal, and Monsieur Simonin, French Chargé d'Affairs, came on board.
— from Down Under with the Prince by Everard Cotes

The feudal bond extended itself to larger political relations, and just as conquered kings became allies or socii of Rome and "upheld the majesty of the Roman people," so there were sovereign feoffs subordinated to higher sovereignties whose representatives, the great kings and lords of large kingdoms and numerous provinces, took the title of "majesty."
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

Black, J. A., Co. K, d. 715 E. 7th St., Erie, Pa., wid.
— from Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864 by Lemuel Abijah Abbott