" "Thank you, Tonks; you are a most invaluable darling," exclaimed Mrs. Vincent, with her sweetest smile.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Look at me; I do everything myself.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Move in (dwelling), enloĝi. Move out (dwelling), elloĝiĝi.
— from English-Esperanto Dictionary by J. C. (John Charles) O'Connor

Besides this, of course, the genealogical census of every community, studied more in detail, extensive maps, plans and diagrams, illustrating ownership in garden land, hunting and fishing privileges, etc., serve as the more fundamental documents of ethnographic research.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

When I, as a boy, first saw the mouth of the Missouri River, it was twenty-two or twenty-three miles above St. Louis, according to the estimate of pilots; the wear and tear of the banks have moved it down eight miles since then; and the pilots say that within five years the river will cut through and move the mouth down five miles more, which will bring it within ten miles of St. Louis.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

There was no more snubbing under his mother's roof, for with a very small reserve for personal needs, he poured all his earnings into her lap as to a common store; and rising in estimation, he was thanked with heartfelt satisfaction, so material and so necessary were added gains to meet increased demands, extortionate Mr. Pryse, sneering and grinning at their inability to confront him with their lease, having raised the rent a second time, and threatened still harsher measures.
— from The Making of William Edwards; or, The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus), Mrs.

Here the ambiguous word is laudabile , which in the minor premise means any thing which mankind are accustomed, on good grounds, to admire or value; as beauty, for instance, or good fortune: but in the major, it denotes exclusively moral qualities.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

" "De same one whut fizzed up, an'—an' busted me in de eyes, Massa Tom?" "Yes, Rad, I'm sorry to say, it's the same one.
— from Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters; Or, Battling with Flames from the Air by Victor Appleton

Taking courage, seeing that justice was so linked with mercy, I did extend most energetically my little venture in unwholesome meat, and now am rich, and have been made a lord.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 30, 1893 by Various

[309:D] " Svart-Alfar tenebrarum spiritus; verum hæc species Alforum putata est non esse mere spiritus, nec nudi homines, sed medium inter divos et mortales ."—Comment in Volusp.
— from Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age by Nathan Drake

Curse it all, must I do everything myself?"
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 1. by Gilbert Parker

He who attempts to trace out the invention of aurum fulminans is like a person bewildered in a morass, in danger every moment of being lost.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann