And the couples followed one another merrily and uproariously; the circle would disperse and then contract once more!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

As to what thou sayest, that these who accompany us yonder are the curate and the barber, our neighbours and acquaintances, it is very possible that they may seem to be those same persons; but that they are so in reality and in fact, believe it not on any account; what thou art to believe and think is that, if they look like them, as thou sayest, it must be that those who have enchanted me have taken this shape and likeness; for it is easy for enchanters to take any form they please, and they may have taken those of our friends in order to make thee think as thou dost, and lead thee into a labyrinth of fancies from which thou wilt find no escape though thou hadst the cord of Theseus; and they may also have done it to make me uncertain in my mind, and unable to conjecture whence this evil comes to me; for if on the one hand thou dost tell me that the barber and curate of our village are here in company with us, and on the other I find myself shut up in a cage, and know in my heart that no power on earth that was not supernatural would have been able to shut me in, what wouldst thou have me say or think, but that my enchantment is of a sort that transcends all I have ever read of in all the histories that deal with knights-errant that have been enchanted?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Ha matado a un Teniente Coronel.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

They built there little cells, wherein they inhabited; but shortly [284] after, the devotion of citizens towards them, and the number of the friars so increased, that they were by the citizens removed to a place in St. Nicholas’ shambles; which John Ewin, mercer, appropriated unto the commonalty, to the use of the said friars, and himself became a lay brother amongst them.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

After swallowing two of three glasses of spirits, Mr. Sikes condescended to take some notice of the young gentlemen; which gracious act led to a conversation, in which the cause and manner of Oliver's capture were circumstantially detailed, with such alterations and improvements on the truth, as to the Dodger appeared most advisable under the circumstances.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

THE COLLOQUY OF MONOS AND UNA THE CONVERSATION OF EIROS AND CHARMION THE DOMAIN OF ARNHEIM THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR FOUR BEASTS IN ONE—THE HOMO-CAMELEOPARD BERENICE A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTR�M. THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY DIDDLING THE DUC DE L'OMELETTE.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Schmalz, in his remarkable dissertation on the education of the deaf and dumb, as well as of children raised only one degree above idiotcy, assumes that they can always both make and understand the common signs of affirmation and negation.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

I will also refer to the case of Rex against Whelpley, 4th Carrington & Payne, 132; to 3d Starkie on Evidence, sections 1542 to 1544, inclusive; also to the United States against Denee and others, 3d Wood, page 48, and a case under this exact section, 5440: "It seems clear that the statute upon which this indictment is based is not intended to relieve the pleader from any supposed necessity of setting out the means agreed upon to carry out the conspiracy by requiring him to aver some overt act done in pursuance of the conspiracy and make such act a necessary ingredient of the offence."
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll

Also it is not possible, that our wit or intendment might ascend unto the contemplation of the heavenly hierarchies immaterial, if our wit be not led by some material thing, as a man is led by the hand: so by these forms visible, our wit may be led to the consideration of the greatness or magnitude of the most excellent beauteous clarity, divine and invisible.
— from Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century

I feel that it has the making of a big mine, and under the circumstances I am willing to stand a little racket for a time.
— from My Adventures with Your Money by George Graham Rice

When I was at court, I found them absolute; and therefore I had rather they should triumph alone, than have me attendant upon their chariots.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

She made marks abstractedly upon the corner of a piece of paper.
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete by Gilbert Parker

The Mahratta army, under the command of Ramajee Punt, marched to blockade the place on the land side; and on the 11th of February, 1756, the fleet, consisting of four ships of the line, of seventy, sixty-four, sixty, and fifty guns; a frigate of forty-four, and three of twenty; a native ship called a grab, of twelve guns; and five mortar ships, arrived before the place.
— from With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

If anywhere there were more absolute unions, they could only reveal themselves to us by just such conjunctive results.
— from The Meaning of Truth by William James

Almost every character may be developed to a greater or a less degree, but the variations of the single characters producing a small deviation from the mean are usually the commonest.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

But, in his wild zeal, he had fallen into the trap which Wenceslas had carefully arranged for him, and now was engaged in a mad attack upon the Church itself, upon ecclesiastical authority as vested in the priest Josè.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

“It gives me a right odd feeling to stand beside a mosque and see a muezzin come out on the balcony of a minaret and utter the call to prayer.
— from Dick Merriwell's Pranks; Or, Lively Times in the Orient by Burt L. Standish