A bailiff banded the dead leaf to the crocodile, who made a doleful shake of the head, and passed it on to the president, who gave it to the procurator of the king in the ecclesiastical court, and thus it made the circuit of the hail.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

If Lottie made any discoveries, she could be bound to secrecy also.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

His father Gerard was so concerned at her death that he grew melancholy, and died soon after: neither of his parents being much above forty when they died.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

Where was his mother, and did she know that he was a servant here?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Misaguntù ang dyíp sa batsi, The jeep bounced when it hit the hole in the road.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Mangárag ang dáhun sa arbul ug ting-init, The poinciana loses its leaves in the hot season.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The end of it was that the two squires talked so much and drank so much that sleep had to tie their tongues and moderate their thirst, for to quench it was impossible; and so the pair of them fell asleep clinging to the now nearly empty bota and with half-chewed morsels in their mouths; and there we will leave them for the present, to relate what passed between the Knight of the Grove and him of the Rueful Countenance.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

After extreme expiration, if the thoracic walls be percussed, this capacity will be found much diminished; and the extreme limits of the thoracic space, which during full inspiration yielded a clear sound, indicative of the presence of the lung, will now, on percussion, manifest a dull sound, in consequence of the absence of the lung, which has receded from the place previously occupied.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

After rest and refreshment, we made a detailed survey of her little empire, and everywhere observed traces of her good management and tact.
— from Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Complete by Madame de Montespan

The next morning, at daybreak, she called at the doctor’s.
— from Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul. by Gustave Flaubert

Nevertheless, to make assurance doubly sure, he went directly forward to Delphi, to put the same question to Apollo.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote

She has been taught to hold herself in, and not to show her feelings; and that, I think, is as much a drawback sometimes as wearing the heart upon the sleeve.
— from By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson

The former only included the barons who had already returned to their allegiance to Ferdinand, and not those who might afterwards do so; it stipulated for the extradition of refugees, as well as that of brigands and rebels, and included the Voivodes of Moldavia and Wallachia.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

Two or three ladies were busy attending Brock, who, with a half chicken in one hand, a piece of pie in the other and a friedcake in his mouth, was trying to make a deaf man understand just how it happened that enough rebels were left to make a decent surrender.
— from Company G A Record of the Services of One Company of the 157th N. Y. Vols. in the War of the Rebellion from Sept. 19, 1862, to July 10, 1865 by A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow

Several times a day she switched on her answering machine, a device she deemed necessary for worksteads.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

That misery and destruction succeeded an union founded upon such principles is not to be wondered at; the progress of that misery, and the final destruction of the actors, is so delineated as to form a regular and well-divided tragedy.
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 2 (of 3) by John Ireland