In forty year, sir, a man sees a pretty deal, ‘specially when he don’t move out of the same spot and keeps his ‘tention.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Our pilot (good man!) was pulling maggots out of the seamen’s noses.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Sávarṇi is a Manu, offspring of the Sun by Chháyá.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

I could not help telling him my opinion on the subject.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Haslúa ang sundang sa sakub, Pull the machete out of the sheath.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But electricity is elusive, invisible; and the greatest authorities cannot say what goes on at the poles of a magnet or on the surface of an electrified body.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

The janitor's daughter, who, in spite of her five or six years of age, has had occasion to make observations on the sexuality of adults, probably played the part of the seducer.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

It was on in no time; then he took the scarf off his neck, and tied it lightly over my eyes, and patting and coaxing he led me out of the stable.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

It was the clock of St. Mark’s striking midnight, which, by a violent shock, drew me out of the state of perplexity I had fallen into.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

We all met outside of the straits in the afternoon, in nineteen fathoms water, about four miles from the Arabian shore.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

"Well, as long as you turn me over on the soft hay I don't mind," answered the other boy, for they had made this up between them.
— from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus by Laura Lee Hope

About midday one of the scouts came running back to report that a large body of spearmen, led by a great chief, was marching through the forest in the direction of the nullah.
— from Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa by Herbert Strang

246 Livy, on scourging, I, 57 account of Bacchanalian orgies, II, 270 - 283 Longinus, legendary name of soldier who pierced Christ, II, 379 Lucullus, Roman patrician, luxury of, II, 244 Luke, St., occupation of, I, 19 Luke, St., Gospel of, style of, I, 19 Lupercals, Roman priests, II, 204 Luxury of the Romans, II, 244 Lycurgus, code of, II, 241 M Macarius, identification of "true cross" by, II, 63 Macaulay, Lord, speech of, on Jewish disabilities, II, 184 Mahomet, character of, I, 14 Malchus, ear of, cut off by Peter, I, 36, 226 Magath, Julius, extract from work of, II, 291 Maimonides, on Hebrew Capital Crimes, I, 91 on the prohibition of nocturnal trials, I, 255, 256 Manlius, Marcus, trial of, before the Comitia Centuriata, II, 40 Marius, Caius, assassin cowed by, I, 62 Mark, St., Jesus arrested at home of, I, 220 Marriage, among the Romans, II, 236 among the Greeks, II, 240 - 243 Marcius, Quintus, Roman consul, motion of, on the suppression of the Bacchanalian orgies, II, 282 Mars, Roman deity, II, 208 Messiah, the, 398 prophecies regarding, and their fulfillment in Jesus, I, 322-328 varying expectations of Jews regarding, I, 319-322; II, 110 conception of Pharisees of, II, 324 conception of Sadducees of, II, 325 Matthew, St., occupation of, I, 19 Matthias, son of Annas, Jewish high priest, biographical note on, II, 296 Mendelssohn, on the Talmud, I, 75 Messalina, Roman empress, lewdness of, II, 244 Messalinus, Cotta, prosecuted for treason, II, 70 Metrodorus on the Greek gods, II, 226 Mezeray, de, on the bloody sweat of Charles IX, I, 60 Minerva, Roman deity, II, 208 Miracles, probability of, I, 40-51 Spinoza on, I, 40-43 Renan on, I, 44 of Christ, I, 351-354 Mishna, the, E. Deutsch on, I, 80 subdivisions of, I, 80 relation of Talmud to, I, 83 traditional view of, I, 84 on capital and pecuniary cases, I, 155, 156.
— from The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint, Vol. 2 (of 2) The Roman Trial by Walter M. (Walter Marion) Chandler

I believe these to be the very words used by Sir Francis Head when he asked my opinion on the subject, and I agreed with him most cordially; but if any one is inclined to suppose, from the light, playful, and I must say, undiplomatic style of Sir Francis’s despatches, that he had not calculated every chance, and made every disposition which prudence and foresight could suggest, they are very much mistaken.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

Large white patches came moving out of the surrounding pavement of deep black, lightened only with the occasional image of a star where the vanishing ripples left the sea smooth.
— from She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir

Oh! why did you take me out of the streets?
— from Stephen Archer, and Other Tales by George MacDonald

My observations on the subject seem correct.
— from New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber

The wind changed to N.E., and it has been necessary to go further N.; but the Captain, knowing by that weed, and many others of the same kind, that the land was near, ordered an E.S.E. course to be steered.
— from The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

“The Lord isn't very apt to make mothers out of that sort of material,” said the elder lady.
— from At Last: A Novel by Marion Harland