You lie down peacefully.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

Consacré uniquement aux inédits artistiques et littéraires, Diamedit prend aujourd'hui toute sa dimension.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

By this time you have learned to keep your balance; and also to steer without wrenching the tiller out by the roots (I say tiller because it IS a tiller; “handle-bar” is a lamely descriptive phrase).
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

“Here is,” said I to myself, “a second Lucie de Pasean, and I am a second time the dupe of my foolish delicacy, for I feel certain that the count will not make her happy.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It is quite a simple little dissection puzzle if rightly attacked.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

They looked like dark phantoms more than men, for the cloak covered up at least half the face.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Aun así, muchísimos se quedan sin trabajo, y como un señor jurisconsulto no puede tomar el arado ni sentarse al telar, de aquí proviene ese 43 brillante escuadrón de holgazanes, llenos de pretensiones, que fomentan la empleomanía, perturban la política, agitan la opinión y engendran las revoluciones.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

Chiron si volse in su la destra poppa, e disse a Nesso: <>.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

un gran patio o plaça con sus estufas las casas son todas parejas de quatro altos por lo alto se anda todo el pueblo sin que aya calle que lo estorbe a los dos primeros doblados es todo çercado de corredores que se anda por ellos todo el pueblo son como balcones que salen a fuera y debajo de ellos se pueden amparar
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

Indeed, when a man is seen from a 436 little distance performing this act, he looks more like a huge bat than a human being.
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood

The perfect form seems to have been accidentally struck in passing from experiment on the one side, to affectation on the other; and it was so far from ever becoming systematised, that I am aware of no type of tracery for which a less decided preference is shown in the buildings in which it exists.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ruskin

pp. 90, 91. 864 – Lessius, de Providen, p. 633.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

Aug. —“Lehrbuch der praktischen Toxicologie.”
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

There were two irreverent little dogs playing and chasing each other on the wide front walk and bustling among the box and borders.
— from Betty Leicester: A Story For Girls by Sarah Orne Jewett

At the age of six one narrow line is drawn down the center of the chin from the lower lip downward, powdered charcoal being used as coloring matter.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 3, July, 1890 by Various