M. de Falloux, accompanied by M. de Kéranflech, came up the Constituent Beslay, and leaned by his side on the stove, saying to him, "Good-day, colleague;" and reminded him that they both had formed part of the Committee of the National Workshops, and that they had together visited the Workmen at the Parc Monceaux.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Never may the dawn appear again to my eyes, never mayst thou see me living any longer, if I should take thought for anything before thy life or thy sons' lives, for they are my brothers, my dear kinsmen and youthful companions.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

Then I sat down once more and asked again for the bills of exchange: “I have not got them; my daughter keeps them.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I bade farewell to the duchess, and dined a second time with M. de Kaiserling.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Then he was perpetually kicking out his heels-so-so-” “Mr. De Kock!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Ang maung mas duranti kay sa sída, Denim is more durable than silk.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Dey wuz a nigger name’ Bob, dat had ketched a wood-flat, en his marster didn’ know it; en I bought it off’n him en told him to take de thirty-five dollars when de en’ er de year come; but somebody stole de wood-flat dat night, en nex day de one-laigged nigger say de bank’s busted.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

ei de dê kai tên aitian mathoi, di' hên ouden ek tês kysteôs eis tous ourêtêras antekrei, peisthênai an moi dokei kai dia toude tên eis ta zôa pronoian te kai technên tês physeôs.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Now, there are many different kinds of parties.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

The very purposes to which they are applied, as a parapet, a railing, a balustrade, a portico, piazza, or porch; all these may be of wood, even when the material of the house proper is of the most durable kind; and by being painted in keeping with the building itself, produce a fine effect, and do no violence to good taste or the most fastidious propriety.
— from Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen

My dear Knowles, If I had not gone to the Academy dinner I might have kept my promise about sending you my paper to-day.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Man is the slave of the earth, doomed by his own vile lusts to bondage of the most dismal kind.
— from Six Women by Victoria Cross

Elege de tis theasameno tini epi kriou kathaemenpo, kai pesonti ex autou ek ton euprosthen, mnaesteuomeno de kai mellonti en autais tais haemerais tous gamous epetelein, proeipein auto hoti hae gunae sou porneusei, kai kata to legomenon, kerata soi poiaesei kai outos apethae, k.t.l."—Artem.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 by Various

Kiss me, my dearest, kiss me!"
— from The Statesmen Snowbound by Robert Fitzgerald

109 But although Margaret as Governess of the Netherlands took part in the greatest events of her century, yet her private life in her home at Malines was of the simplest and most domestic kind.
— from The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne

them,—just so much I wist Mankind do know of hell; I look o’erhead, And there is sullen mist,—even so much Mankind can tell of heaven; mist is spread Before the earth, beneath me,—even such, Even so vague is man’s sight of himself!
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

MR. DE KRIEGSCHENMAHL: What now, Madame De Kriegschenmahl?
— from Signora Fantastici (A Dramatic Proverb) by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël

Blumentritt (Ferd.), ‘Der Ahnencultus und die religiösen Anschauungen der Malaien des Philippinen-Archipels’; in Mittheilungen der kais.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck