There followed a disgraceful contest: Lord Lowborough, in desperate earnest, and pale with anger, silently struggling to release himself from the powerful madman that was striving to drag him from the room.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

No había concluído sus observaciones, cuando un socio del Casino apareció de súbito a su lado, y riendo le interpeló de este modo: 30 —¡Ah!
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Though this pen Did never aim to grieve, but better men; Howe'er the age he lives in doth endure The vices that she breeds, above their cure.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Of course, the United States is no exception; it seems as if the respect for law is declining everywhere, and if this decline occurs in one field no other is likely to be free from it.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Thus Lucy, in desert England, in a dead world, wished to fulfil the usual ceremonies of the dead, such as were customary to the English country people, when death was a rare visitant, and gave us time to receive his dreaded usurpation with pomp and circumstance—going forth in procession to deliver the keys of the tomb into his conquering hand.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Their light, in dying, enabled us just to perceive that a stranger had entered, about my own height, and closely muffled in a cloak.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Quum labor in damno est, crescit mortalis egestas.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talk’d, And more convenient is he for my hand Than for your lady’s.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

That pile of oyster-shells which is called a library is disgusting even to think of.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Levelling is done either with dioptrae, or with water levels, or with the chorobates, but it is done with greater [243] accuracy by means of the chorobates, because dioptrae and levels are deceptive.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

In those first days when Love its depths explored, Where by degrees he made himself the lord Of my whole life, and claim'd it as his own: I did not think that, through his power alone, A heart time-steel'd, and so with valour stored, Such proof of failing firmness could afford, And fell by wrong self-confidence o'erthrown.
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

"Have you not heard," His Holiness answered, "that great excitement prevails throughout Italy?—the state of Lombardy is deplorable; evil spirits are at work even in my dominions, and the late speech of the King of Sardinia is calculated to inflame the minds of all the revolutionary men of Italy.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

Rackateen gave it a stroke of his shovel to level it down even; the corpse gave a cry of pain, and the boy was raised from the pit.
— from Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898 Childhood, boyhood, manhood; customs, habits and manners of the Irish people; Erinach and Sassenach; Catholic and protestant; Englishman and Irishman; English religion; Irish plunder; social life and prison life; the Fenian movement; Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Shall I lay it down e'er the midnight dim With horrible shadows is roofed and paved?
— from Poems by Marietta Holley

[29] Garcia Origin de los Indios de el Nuevo Mondo ; McLennan; Ingham (Westermarck, 113) concerning the Bakongo; Giraud-Teulon, 208, 209, concerning Nubians and other Ethiopians.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

Imagine a crowd of prisoners of both sexes, living in daily expectation of the scaffold, who played for hours together at the guillotine !
— from The Dungeons of Old Paris Being the Story and Romance of the Most Celebrated Prisons of the Monarchy and the Revolution by Tighe Hopkins

In all this there appears little in doctrine, excepting the admission of the divine presence in the elements of the eucharist, that differs greatly from most other reformed churches: nevertheless, the ceremonies are entirely similar to those of the Roman Catholic religion.
— from Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1) by Frances Milton Trollope

In all cases where there is a double consonant, each letter is distinctly enunciated.
— from The Gundungurra Language by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews

He started with a brilliant train, including a number of well-born volunteers, who gladly offered their services to the popular favourite, and landed in Dublin early in the month of April, 1599.
— from The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless