Naturally they turned to their kindred earth, and put their forelegs to the ground, and their heads were crushed into strange oblong forms.
— from Timaeus by Plato

The adverb plej , most (74), modified by kiel eble ( as possible ), is used to express the highest degree possible: Ĝi estas kiel eble plej bona , it is the best possible.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

But, whether he had not noticed the trick, or did not dare to attempt it, the “new fellow,” was still holding his cap on his knees even after prayers were over.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

,” said I, “has keen eyes, and plays faro admirably.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

4. What presents did the Knights exchange at parting?
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

This deed was ascribed to King Eystein and Philip Gyrdson, King Sigurd's foster-brother, and occasioned much displeasure and hatred.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

I fancy that I know enough about Paris to find my way about.”
— from The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. by John Kendrick Bangs

In fact, there are very few animals in the world that cannot be tamed by man, if man is but kind enough and patient enough.
— from Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Frank Richard Stockton

Therefore both the particular days of truce are usually kept either at places even on the confines of the Marches, or else at places within the realm of Scotland, and also the English warden and other officers were always used to send first for the assurance as aforesaid.”
— from Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland

As Gautier took care to inform us, this poor devil was bor "under a mad star"; he knew exile and prison, he just escaped being burned alive for atheism and libertinage.
— from The Spell of the Heart of France: The Towns, Villages and Chateaus about Paris by André Hallays

Elizabeth knew her husband, and had keen eyes; a presentiment of approaching danger seized upon her.
— from A Word, Only a Word — Complete by Georg Ebers

What is the reason, asked Friar John, that monks are always to be found in kitchens, and kings, emperors, and popes are never there?
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

“And you know everything about Phineas,” said McPhail grimly.
— from The Rough Road by William John Locke