My reflections were too undefined and fragmentary to merit record: I hardly yet knew where I was; Gateshead and my past life seemed floated away to an immeasurable distance; the present was vague and strange, and of the future I could form no conjecture.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

[p. 141, n. Bermula jika pintu rumah mengadap ka mashrik, baik: ʿalamat beruleh anak chuchu banyak, lagi sentosa; jika mengadap ka utara, baik: ʿalamat beruleh mas perak, lagi semperna; jika mengadap ka maghrib, bertambah-tambah ʿelmu baik atau orang ʿalim datang kapada-nya, lagi salamat; jika mengadap ka selatan malang pada barang kerja-nya, tiada semperna maksud-nya.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

My presence, love, shall never add One pain to make the heart more sad; [pg 130] I will not cause thee grief or care, Nor be a burden hard to bear.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Native Gauls became noted merchant princes, lawyers, soldiers, local potentates at home, and favorites of powerful political personages in Rome and even in the colonies outside Gaul.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Ut me pluma levat, sic grave mergit onus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I've written my poor little screeds when I was half-dead with fatigue; I've been out in cold and rain to get news; I've interviewed all sorts of people when I've hated them and hated the work.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Nec pavet hic populus ( Massilia ) pro libertate subire Obsessum Poeno gessit quod Marte Saguntum.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

This is my playes last scene 324 34 VII.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Ten minutes later, Miss Philura, looking smaller and more insignificant than usual, was seated in the carriage opposite Mrs. J. Mortimer
— from The Transfiguration of Miss Philura by Florence Morse Kingsley

"One, two, three year; yes, three year and a bit." "Which did you like best—England or Spain?" "When with my people, like Spain best; warm sun—warm night.
— from The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat

They bore a suitable hole, place a charge of gunpowder at the bottom, and then merely pour loose sand into the hole until it is filled.
— from Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature by J. G. (John George) Wood

All my bold and hardy days came rushing madly to my mind; and my present life seemed no longer endurable.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever