Sir Simon would have placed himself next me: And my master said, He thought it was best, where there was an equal number of ladies and gentlemen, that they should sit, intermingled, that the gentlemen might be employed in helping and serving the ladies.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Ang mudyul musiparar sa rákit, The module separates from the rocket ship.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"But even now, foolish men, most senseless of all the Hellenes that I know, if you have no sense of the wickedness of your designs, or most criminal if you have that sense and still dare to pursue them—even now, if it is not a case for repentance, you may still learn wisdom, and thus advance the interest of the country, the common interest of us all.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Tom's complaints had been greatly heightened by the shock of his sister's conduct, and his recovery so much thrown back by it, that even Lady Bertram had been struck by the difference, and all her alarms were regularly sent off to her husband; and Julia's elopement, the additional blow which had met him on his arrival in London, though its force had been deadened at the moment, must, she knew, be sorely felt.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

In his historical method Macaulay suggests Gibbon.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

"I should say she didn't," said Mr. Macey, significantly.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

She went stealthily as a cat through this profusion of growth, gathering cuckoo-spittle on her skirts, cracking snails that were underfoot, staining her hands with thistle-milk and slug-slime, and rubbing off upon her naked arms sticky blights which, though snow-white on the apple-tree trunks, made madder stains on her skin; thus she drew quite near to Clare, still unobserved of him.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Column C denotes the Character of the Primæval Language; Mn (Monoglottonic) signifies that the Species had one Simple Primæval Language; Pl (Polyglottonic) a Compound Primæval Language. Tribe.
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 2 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

These men made signs that I should send some men up the country, and they would stay as hostages.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

Mr. More shows how, during the century following, the importance of the second of these factors began to be accentuated, under the influence of Rousseau and his followers, and how, in the end, the first was forgotten almost entirely and there arose a non-Christian sentimentality which was worse, if anything, than the sentimentality of the Beatitudes.
— from The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

It would make me sick."
— from Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young

I opened it, found its appointments complete, drew up a comfortable chair, and, choosing pen and paper, determined to record my impressions for future perusal, if by any means my memory should fail me.
— from Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan