I told her I was going to be apprenticed to Joe, I believed; and I enlarged upon my knowing nothing and wanting to know everything, in the hope that she might offer some help towards that desirable end.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Mga intranti sa karíra, Entrants in the horse race.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Then he sent a private message to his friends north in Throndhjem, and proposed to them that they should kill King Erling, if they had an opportunity; adding, that he would come to them in summer.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The Franks were absolved from their ancient oath; but a dire anathema was thundered against them and their posterity, if they should dare to renew the same freedom of choice, or to elect a king, except in the holy and meritorious race of the Carlovingian princes.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

They travel nearly all over it, and there is no town out of which they do not go full up of meat and drink, as the saying is, and with a real, at least, in money, and they come off at the end of their travels with more than a hundred crowns saved, which, changed into gold, they smuggle out of the kingdom either in the hollow of their staves or in the patches of their pilgrim's cloaks or by some device of their own, and carry to their own country in spite of the guards at the posts and passes where they are searched.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

If anyone refuses to give them all that they ask for, they will kill everyone in the house and burn it afterwards.
— from With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

There was no sport of the range that he took a keener enjoyment in than he did in roping, and by this time there were few men who could handle a rope more skillfully than he.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali; Or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Frank Gee Patchin

The declaration that will kindle enthusiasm in the human breast most quickly is that a new way has been discovered to get rich.
— from Is The Bible Worth Reading, and Other Essays by L. K. (Lemuel Kelley) Washburn

لو كان بالضين "Seek knowledge even if thou hast to go for it to China"—(the farthest country known in his days).
— from Notes on Islam by Hussain, Ahmed, Sir

"Nor will know, even if 'tis he, till the morning clears his wits.
— from Shameless Wayne: A Romance of the last Feud of Wayne and Ratcliffe by Halliwell Sutcliffe

Such is the power of natural prejudice which we know exists in the human mind, that without a divine revelation from God, supported by the most evident miracles, man will not extend his views of divine benevolence scarcely beyond the rivers and mountains which environ the circumscribed vicinity of his birth.
— from A Series of Letters, in Defence of Divine Revelation In Reply to Rev. Abner Kneeland's Serious Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Same. To Which is Added, a Religious Correspondence, Between the Rev. Hosea Ballou, and the Rev. Dr. Joseph Buckminster and Rev. Joseph Walton, Pastors of Congregational Churches in Portsmouth, N. H. by Hosea Ballou

But during the reign of our good King Edward IV the Holy Office was changed in Spain.
— from House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Guy Thorne

My father, Peter Bodkin Hussey, was for a long time a barrister at the Irish Bar, practising in the Four Courts, where more untruths are spoken than anywhere else in the three kingdoms, except in the House of Commons during an Irish debate.
— from The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Samuel Murray Hussey

And the pride of the house kissed each in turn, his dark eyes wandering absently about the room.
— from The Doomswoman: An Historical Romance of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

All Russians keep Eikons in their homes, and generally have one in every room, before which a little candle is kept perpetually burning.
— from Through Scandinavia to Moscow by William Seymour Edwards