As he bent over, looking for a lost coin, my very myopic wife cried out, “Look at the beautiful Newfoundland dog.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

[ Olim etiam, quoties lectica cum matre veheretur, libidinatum inceste, ac maculis vestis proditum, affirmant.] Note 595 ( return )
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

C. F. VINDEX LICINIVS FAVSTVS LABERIA POMPEIANA CONIVX MACRINI VINDICIS MANILIA LVCILLA CONIVX MARVLLI VINDICIS
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Nada más conviene añadir acerca de este personaje, sino que cuando 10 sintió el trote largo de las cabalgaduras que corrían hacia la calle del Condestable, se arregló el manteo, enderezó el sombrero, que no estaba del todo bien puesto en la venerable cabeza, y marchando hacia la casa, murmuró— —Vamos a ver ese prodigio.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

All down this avenue, you know, between the red chapped stems, were marble seats of honour and statuary, and very tame and friendly white doves… "Along this cool avenue my girl-friend led me, looking down—I recall the pleasant lines, the finely-modelled chin of her sweet kind face—asking me questions in a soft, agreeable voice, and telling me things, pleasant things I know, though what they were I was never able to recall… Presently a little Capuchin monkey, very clean, with a fur of ruddy brown and kindly hazel eyes, came down a tree to us and ran beside me, looking up at me and grinning, and presently leapt to my shoulder.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Before labour can be its own reward it must become less continuous, more varied, more responsive to individual temperament and capacity.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Therein lies chastisement made visible.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Entrevistas traducidas por Marie Lebert (con Maria Victoria Marinetti).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

"That's a lie!" cried Mrs. Verschoyle, mad with fury, rising from her seat.
— from The Girl from Malta by Fergus Hume

Being so isolated and projecting so suddenly from deep water, this ledge claimed many victims among the vessels frequenting these unlighted waters.
— from Lightships and Lighthouses by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

The stage business was arranged by Grimaldi; and in the first piece, the pantomime of "Goody Two Shoes," Bologna played Harlequin; Grimaldi, Clown; Barnes, Pantaloon; Farmer, with a song, Mr. Wood, the husband of Miss Paton, afterwards Lady Lennox; Columbine, Miss Vallancey.
— from Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Joseph Grimaldi

A great number of letters contain money, valuable papers, and postage stamps.
— from Overland Tales by Josephine Clifford

Bobby and I retained our former posts in her, and as she was required at all hours of the day and night, we had removed our chests and hammocks to her little cabin, merely visiting the old “Juno” at odd times, to maintain our connexion with her, when we had nothing else in particular to do.
— from Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood

Think not a day, nor all my life, can make Victoria's heart her steadfast love forsake.
— from Dryden's Works Vol. 08 (of 18) by John Dryden