Again, it was quite common at that time to see the carcase of a calf, lamb, or kid exposed for sale with a label from the inspector certifying that it had been killed in self-defence.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

La katoj estas feliĉaj, sed la paseroj ne estas feliĉaj.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

He rolled his knotty eyes from side to side, taking a first wondering view of the world in which he had now so important an existence.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

im Widerspruch mit unless contrary to sofern nichts anderes vereinbart ist unless otherwise agreed sofern Sie nicht gebunden sind unless they are bound by sofort immediate sofort beginnende Rente immediate annuity sofort gültig; mit sofortiger Wirkung immediately effective sofort in Kraft effective forthwith sofort lieferbar und sofort zahlbar spot sofort verfügbar immediately available sofortig instant sofortig; umgehend promptly sofortige Barzahlung bei Kaufabschluss spot cash sofortige Lieferung immediate delivery sofortiger Bedarf immediate demand sofortiger Besitz immediate possession sogenannte so-called Solawechsel promissory note Solawechsel sola bill Solawechsel sole bill solch ein
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

“I thought you knowed everything, father,” said the artless boy. “Hem!
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Now we shall have to confine ourselves to one district, the southern part of the Island, and we shall follow a Kula expedition from Sinaketa to Dobu.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

As to my sister, she must know everything, for she cannot have forgotten the broken-down bed; but she is prudent, and besides, she has taken it into her head to pity me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

To this aloof moth of a man science was nearly as absorbing an interest as was the mysticism that some thought had eaten him up; and, to give a light example of his actuality, he who had scarce handled a bat since he left Ushaw College, [Pg x] knew every famous score of the last quarter of a century, and left among his papers cricket-verses, trivial yet tragic.
— from Selected Poems of Francis Thompson by Francis Thompson

Some planters refused to leave their slaves in the full charge of deputies of any kind, even for short periods.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Why, then I will stir up the Dutch feeling in Natal and in the old Colony, and we will push the Englishmen back into the sea, make a clean sweep of the natives, only keeping enough for servants, and have a united South Africa, like that poor silly man Burgers used to prate of, but did not know how to bring about.
— from Jess by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He held back a long time: “You who are so safe in good, why know evil?” “Frederick,” she cried, “I shall have to insist upon your telling me this story.
— from The Bride of the Mistletoe by James Lane Allen

Many of the houses appear to be kept entirely for show, since in all my peregrinations I have never seen any human being in the upper chambers, although illuminated every night.
— from Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Emma Roberts

This seems to him one of the finest things in the world, and his satisfaction will take a keener edge from such an incident as the single one I may permit myself to mention.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877 by Various

J. PAYNE COLLIER, Esq., V.P.S.A. PETER CUNNINGHAM, Esq., F.S.A. WILLIAM RICHARD DRAKE, Esq., F.S.A. THOMAS W. KING, Esq., F.S.A. SIR FREDERICK MADDEN, K.H. JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS, Esq., F.S.A. HENRY SHAW, Esq., F.S.A. SAMUEL SHEPHERD, Esq., F.S.A. WILLIAM J. THOMS, Esq., F.S.A. The Tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer in Westminster Abbey is fast mouldering into irretrievable decay.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various