tinôn men oun hê gennêtikê te kai auxêtikê deontai, eirêtai, tinôn d' hê threptikê, nyn eirêsetai.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Colia did not know any details, except that it had been a terrible quarrel!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Again, in Labruguière, a canton of Southern France, on the eve of Twelfth Day the people run through the streets, jangling bells, clattering kettles, and doing everything to make a discordant noise.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The wild dogs or dhols are regarded as the dūtas or messengers of the brothers, and they would on no account kill a dhol, even though it should attack their favourite calf.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Amidst the tottering of his former dream of an evangelical and universal Rome, Pierre expressed these good wishes for the Eternal City’s future fortune with such keen and deep emotion that Prada could not help replying: “I thank you; that wish of yours is in the heart of every good Italian.”
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

As the little fellow approached, Mrs. Daney so far forgot her perturbation as to look at him keenly and decide, eventually, that he bore not the faintest resemblance to Donald McKaye.
— from Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

Dr. La Paz said that some people, including Dr. Joseph Kaplan and Dr. Edward Teller, thought that the green fireballs were natural meteors.
— from The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

Strictly speaking—from the point of view of the expert who knows and does everything that an expert ought to know and do—mountaineering has two dangers only.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 by Various

And yet in the evening, when a circle of intimate friends were gathered under his hospitable roof, he would be ready to take an active part in an animated conversation about art, literature, or politics, or perhaps take his favorite instrument, the violoncello, between his knees, and delight even the best cultivated ears by his correct and yet deeply-felt playing in a quickly-improvised quartette.
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Savanukah was of the delegation, doubtful, denying, with a dozen devices of duplicity; he could not at times understand the English he spoke fairly well, and the French, in which he could chaffer smartly and drive a bargain, nor even the Cherokee, for which he kept a deaf ear to hinder a settlement he deprecated with the hated English—invaluable at a council was Savanukah!
— from The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree

What pains the kind and dutiful Ellen took that week to make her mother feel easy!
— from The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe