* * * * See, suddenly flames forth a lightning-flash, The pit profound with thunderous challenge fights Against the heavens, midst clamorous crack and crash Of the great mountain!
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Acercábase después a la puerta vidriera del comedor, y miraba con cautela a cierta distancia, temiendo que la vieran los de dentro.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

And if a mathematician can consider a certain distance, or a change of that distance between two points, one may certainly conceive a distance and a change of distance, between two spirits; and so conceive their motion, their approach or removal, one from another.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

círculo m circle; club ( A. ' casino '), coterie.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Diversos (he concludes) efficere locorum Genios , to make diversity of countries, soils, manners, customs, characters, and constitutions among us, ut quantum vicinia ad charitatem addat, sidera distrahant ad perniciem , and so by this means fluvio vel monte distincti sunt dissimiles , the same places almost shall be distinguished in manners.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

congreso, m ., congress. conmemorativo, -a, commemorative.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Mr. Curdle coughed and considered.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

6. Mîlitês hostîs octô milia passuum însecûtî multîs cum captîvîs ad castra revertêrunt.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The sides were perpendicular, and were cut and channeled by the weather into most curious caves and columns and battlements and spires.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

answered the young officer; "but I tell you, I am quite prepared myself; and such a large body as you have mentioned cannot cross a considerable extent of country without attracting attention."
— from The Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Murmured: Messrs Callan, Coleman and Co, limited.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The bad habit clings to him quite as much elsewhere, and disfigures his most commonplace conversations and casual sallies.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

"I put in three years and five months, choppin' cotton and corn.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Running streams should have their margins carefully cleaned and covered with gravel to prevent weeds and grass at the water's edge.
— from The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 4 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

The wholesome practice which amongst the decent poor marks off at least one day in the week as a day on which there is to be a change; when there is to be some attempt to procure order and cleanliness; a day to be preceded by soap and water, by shaving, and by as many clean clothes as can be procured, was unknown here.
— from Mark Rutherford's Deliverance by William Hale White

© 27Jan36; A91546. Mrs. Cecil C. Adell (C); 30Dec63; R328776.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office