A demon's holiday of lightning-flame And storm came whistling, wrecking many a boat, Shattering many a roof—and all for what?
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

She thinks it is wonderful that two people should write stories so much alike; but she still considers her own as original.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Alabandite, or Manganblende, a black submetallic mineral.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

There were a few elderly women in common colors; and a herd of young men and boys, some on foot and others mounted, followed them, or walked or rode by their side, frequently interrupting them by jokes and questions.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

In an improved and cultivated country, therefore, their interest as landlords and farmers cannot be much affected by such regulations, though their interest as consumers may, by the rise in the price of provisions.'
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Had he remained longer in slavery—had he fretted under bonds until the ripening of manhood and its passions, until the drear agony of slave-wife and slave-children had been piled upon his already bitter experiences—then, not only would his own history have had another termination, but the drama of American slavery would have been essentially varied; for I cannot resist the belief, that the boy who learned to read and write as he did, who taught his fellow slaves these precious acquirements as he did, who plotted for their mutual escape as he did, would, when a man at bay, strike a blow which would make slavery reel and stagger.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Mupalungpung ang búnga sa úbas, Grapes come in bunches.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“Monsieur de Comminges is in the guards and not in the musketeers----” “Which means, I suppose, that the musketeers are better soldiers than the guards.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The breast of the mild and benevolent Saviour, striped with the bruises of recent punishment, and his heavenly countenance, benignly looking forgiveness upon his executioners, are beautifully delineated.
— from The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

Next see that the sparker is clean, that it will make a bright spark at white heat when the contact is broken, and at the right time.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out by Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson

Therefore ye must here study righteousness and holiness, “for the grace of God that hath appeared to all men, and bringeth salvation, teacheth us, that denying all ungodliness, and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world looking for the blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ,” &c. Tit. ii. 11, &c.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

I never saw a more striking coincidence; if Wallace had my MS. sketch written out in 1842, he could not have made a better short abstract!
— from Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd

Well, he gave me a better school than I had asked for—better neighborhood, he said—and told me to board with a certain family who had no children; he gave his reasons, but that's immaterial.
— from The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams

Nakaasawa siyag blúsil, He married a blue seal (American).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They opened their eyes slowly, almost uncomprehendingly, but awareness came quickly, and his mother and brother sat up and fumbled at their straps.
— from The Planet Mappers by E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans

He shot at everything which offered a taking mark, and became so expert that Dan bowed down before him, and Mrs. Pratt considered him dangerous.
— from The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland

Houses often lacked comforts in the way of furniture, but made a brave showing in tapestries and paintings.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira