“Aye, he was dismasted off Japan,” said the old Gay-Head Indian once; “but like his dismasted craft, he shipped another mast without coming home for it.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

La hermana de mi padre es mi tía.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

In his fervent prayer he did not beseech God to lighten his darkness but only thirsted for the joyous emotion, which always visited his soul after the praise and adoration, of which his evening prayer usually consisted.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[1] los hombres de la Gironda, the Girondists .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Not in the least, he decided, turning up his soft collar and turning it down over the tie.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

John Locke had died in 1704.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The works which he left half done are now generally in ruins, viz.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

But the order of male succession was asserted by the friends of their country; the lawful heir drew the royal signet from the finger of his insensible or conscious father and the empire obeyed the master of the palace.
— 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

"Have I not told thee," answered Don Quixote, "that I mean to imitate Amadis here, playing the victim of despair, the madman, the maniac, so as at the same time to imitate the valiant Don Roland, when at the fountain he had evidence of the fair Angelica having disgraced herself with Medoro and through grief thereat went mad, and plucked up trees, troubled the waters of the clear springs, slew destroyed flocks, burned down huts, levelled houses, dragged mares after him, and perpetrated a hundred thousand other outrages worthy of everlasting renown and record?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Martin took a bath, after which he found that the head laundryman had disappeared.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

From Loches he directed his army on Poitiers, the main part with the king in person crossing the Vienne at the bridge of Chauvigny, fifteen miles east of that city.
— from Battles of English History by H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George

"Our own genius for adventure is less highly developed and we love to wander along some beaten path, no matter how often it has been traveled before; and if really awake, we may daily greet new beauties and think new thoughts, and return to the old highway with a new lease on life, which, after all, is the main consideration, whether traveling on old or new trails."
— from See America First by Charles J. Herr

Said he’d lost his diamond locket.
— from Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn

He made him live his death the moment that he made him die his death.
— from The Double Life by Gaston Leroux

Never mind, Lady Helen, don’t blush no more.”
— from Daddy's Girl by L. T. Meade

I know only about fifty families, and not more than half of these at all familiarly; but those whom I do know seem to me to be the victims of a pure and simple laziness handed down from generation to generation until it has become a chronic family disease.
— from Tramping with Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life by Josiah Flynt

The heart-shaped leaves have dropped from the bine, leaving thick bunches of red and green berries clustering about the greyish stem of the oak.
— from Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies

“I might,” he answered, licking his dry lips.
— from The Night-Born by Jack London

Enough if the work has seemed, So did she your strength renew, A dream that a lion had dreamed
— from The Green Helmet and Other Poems by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

And in all the earth there is no land without inhabitants, whether on wide continents or islands of the sea; and in all nature there is no grandeur or beauty or grace which men have not copied; knowing that this is pleasing to the Father: for we, that are made like him, delight not to work without witnesses; and we are his witnesses in the earth, taking pleasure in his works, even as he also does in ours.
— from A Crystal Age by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson