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— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

“Profound changes were recorded where the scorbutic changes during life were so slight as to be almost unrecognizable,” and, they continue, “the mildest degree of scurvy which could just be discovered at the postmortem examination produced well-defined changes in the structure of the teeth.”
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

“I met John B. Drake to-day,” he said.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

And it was fine to see that astonished multitude go down on their knees and beg their lives of the king they had just been deriding and insulting.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

For it is generally held by Intuitionists that true morality prescribes absolutely what is in itself right, under all social conditions; at least as far as determinate duties are concerned: as ( e.g. ) that truth should always be spoken and promises kept, and ‘Justice be done, though the sky should fall.’
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

JOKANAAN Back, daughter of Sodom!
— from Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde

Now if any one consider these things, he will find that God takes care of mankind, and by all ways possible foreshows to our race what is for their preservation; but that men perish by those miseries which they madly and voluntarily bring upon themselves; for the Jews, by demolishing the tower of Antonia, had made their temple four-square, while at the same time they had it written in their sacred oracles, "That then should their city be taken, as well as their holy house, when once their temple should become four-square."
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

He came again just before dark, and described the last assault made by the rebels at the ravine, near the steamboat-landing, which he had repelled by a heavy battery collected under Colonel J. D. Webster and other officers, and he was convinced that the battle was over for that day.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The fact is, I have just budged downward.
— from The Dominant Strain by Anna Chapin Ray

A journey of four hundred miles, day and night, is no joke: our travellers fell fast asleep in their spacious apartment, and it was not till the next day that they found themselves clean and comfortable, Joey being dressed in a rich livery, as a sort of page, and McShane doing duty as valet when others were present, and when sitting alone with O’Donahue, taking his fair share of the bottle.
— from The Poacher; Or, Joseph Rushbrook by Frederick Marryat

My letter of the 29th of June, brought down the proceedings of the States and government to the re-union of the orders, which took place on the 27th.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 3 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Illustrated by J. BARNARD DAVIS.
— from A Woman Martyr by Alice M. (Alice Mangold) Diehl

Pahom lay awake all night, and dozed off only just before dawn.
— from What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

One of the most intelligent of these animals that has yet been known, was brought from Java by Dr. Abel Clark, and many interesting stories have been told about it.
— from A Natural History for Young People: Our Animal Friends in Their Native Homes including mammals, birds and fishes by Phebe Westcott Humphreys

The theatre is very spacious, well arranged, and as far as we could judge by day-light, handsomely decorated.
— from The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

As my messenger had told me that you had questioned him as to the other entrance to the creek, I felt sure that you had gone there; so I was not surprised when, just before daybreak, two guns were fired.
— from Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

De Bracy, and other knights attached to Prince John, in obedience to a hint from him, had joined the party of the challengers, John being desirous to secure, if possible, the victory to that side.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

John Bewick died; an English engraver on wood, of great excellence; who with his brother carried the art to a state of perfection before unknown.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell