M., 10th April, 1817, Lady Charlotte Paget, eldest dau.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

; yo no sé quién le ha dicho que usted hace alarde de 25 ateísmo en todas partes; que se burla de las cosas y personas sagradas, y aun que proyecta derribar la catedral para edificar con sus piedras una gran fábrica de alquitrán.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The affair being brought to this head, Mr. George, after a little consideration, proposed to go in first to his comrade (as he called him), taking Miss Flite with him.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

E io a lui: <<Con piangere e con lutto, spirito maladetto, ti rimani; ch'i' ti conosco, ancor sie lordo tutto>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Some Distance, then falls down from N E thro a roleing Countrey open, the head of this river is 9 miles from the R Demon at which place the Demoin is 80 yd wide, this Little Cuouex passes thro a lake called Despree which is within 5 Leagues of the Deemoin the Said Lake is about 20 Leagues in Circumfrance and is divided into 2 by two rocks approaching Verry near each other, this Lake is of various width, Containing many Islands- from this Lake to the Maha 4 days march, as is Said to be near the Dog Plains one princpal branch of the Demoin is Called Cat River The Demoin is
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Seulement, imaginez un livre où, pour tourner la page, il vous faut vous lever, aller chercher la page suivante à la bibliothèque, vous rasseoir, et ne commencer à lire cette page qu'après toutes ces manipulations… Ereintant, non?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

A like custom prevails among the Chukchis and Koryaks in the vicinity of Kamtchatka.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Moreover, to the heard object {197} a large number of more or less certain precautionary judgments are attached.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Little Chandler pushed one glass towards his friend and took up the other boldly.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

His recorded asceticism, however severe, does not appear, save in some of the least credible passages of the Cáin , to have been carried by him to the same lengths of self-torture, worthy of a solitary of the Thebaid, or an Indian yogi , as it was by many of the Irish saints.
— from An Irish Precursor of Dante A Study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the Eighth-century Irish Saint Adamnán, with Translation of the Irish Text by Charles Stuart Boswell

London, Chiswick Press, 1917.
— from Old Crosses and Lychgates by Aymer Vallance

Whilst Yseulte—Yseulte,—before she is twenty, will be widowed in fact and left to the consolation of some little child, plucking the daisies on the sward here at her feet.’
— from Princess Napraxine, Volume 3 (of 3) by Ouida

je ne le crois pas.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Three days later, Colonel Parsons said to Gregory: "I think the time has come, Mr. Hilliard, when I must apply for reinforcements.
— from With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Had a small army in 1812, with a well-fortified dépôt on Lake Champlain, penetrated into Canada, and cut off all reinforcements and supplies by way of Quebec, that country would inevitably have fallen into our possession.
— from Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. by H. W. (Henry Wager) Halleck

While Pisano worked at stone-cutting, little Canova played at it, and at other things, such as modelling in clay, drawing, etc.
— from Harper's Young People, January 24, 1882 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

It was part of his cheap and childish ritual as a Decadent to draw the curtains after breakfast, light candles, place the flask of Green Chartreuse and a liqueur-glass on the table, drop one drip of the liquid into the glass, burn a stinking pastille of incense, place a Birmingham "god" or an opening lily before him, ruffle his hair, and sprawl on the sofa with a wicked French novel he could not read—hoping for visitors and an audience.
— from Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren