(había dicho el boticario): la guerra que os hacemos los españoles es tan necia como inmotivada.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

An engineer fights with nature hand to hand: he is less easily extravagant than a decorator; he can hardly ever afford to be absurd.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

IV No bien había vuelto la espalda el tío Juan, cuando su compadre 20 y asesor cogió la pluma
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

"Are you house-ridding to-day, like everybody else?" They were, they said.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Way láing makakanukay sa mga híman sa laburaturyu gawas sa tiglilimpiyu, No one may disturb the laboratory equipment except the janitor.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When the instinct was once acquired, if carried out to a much less extent even than in our British F. sanguinea, which, as we have seen, is less aided by its slaves than the same species in Switzerland, I can see no difficulty in natural selection increasing and modifying the instinct—always supposing each modification to be of use to the species—until an ant was formed as abjectly dependent on its slaves as is the Formica rufescens.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

1. Latin, like English, expresses thoughts by means of sentences.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The name will be familiar to you, by reason of your late employment, even though she may have escaped your personal recognition till now.
— from Princess Zara by Ross Beeckman

Ma vienne omai, che' gia` tiene 'l confine d'amendue li emisperi e tocca l'onda sotto Sobilia Caino e le spine; e gia` iernotte fu la luna tonda: ben ten de' ricordar, che' non ti nocque alcuna volta per la selva fonda>>.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

She seems to have made little effort even to learn the language, much to the amazement of the elder daughter, who had enjoyed the advantage of a conscientious visit to England.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart, suitable to the nature of the object of our worship, cannot be raised in us without the operation of a supernatural grace; and though the fathers could not worship God without the Spirit, yet in the gospel‑times, there being a fuller effusion of the Spirit, the evangelical state is called, “the administration of the Spirit,” and “the newness of the Spirit,” in opposition to the legal economy, entitled the “oldness of the letter.”
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

And if an infidel can learn enough English to get on with, without any regular study, I can't see why we shouldn't be able to learn enough Turkish in the same way.”
— from A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Wherever he went, his footsteps were pursued by crowds of admirers, eager to touch his wonder-working body or to cut off shreds of his clothing as amulets; hardly a day passed that he did not return home with garments so lacerated that only half of them was left; every evening they had to be patched up anew, although they were purposely stitched full of wires and small chains of iron as a protection.
— from Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

In the divine government this theory recognizes no constitution, but only legislative enactment; even this legislative enactment is grounded in no necessity of God's nature, but only in expediency or in God's arbitrary will; law may be abrogated for merely economic reasons, if any incidental good may be gained thereby.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

So that now those within the castle did in a manner lie equally exposed to them without, as had been on the contrary before.
— from The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring

Miss Fortune did not renew the disagreeable conversation that Mr. Van Brunt had broken off; she left Ellen entirely to herself, scarcely speaking to her, or seeming to know when she went out or came in.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner