He gave me some good dinners.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

—Seymour’s back in town, the young man said, grasping again his spur of rock.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Mupursiyintu silag gamay káda daug, They get (or give) a small percentage of the winning as a fee to the owner of the house.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"And here are pictures" (she went on) "more stranger" (grammar was occasionally forgotten) "than that.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

My sister Liddy was frighted into a fit, from which she was no sooner recovered, than Mrs Tabitha began a lecture upon patience; which her brother interrupted with a most significant grin, ‘True, sister, God increase my patience and your discretion.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

What should I do in my so great tribulations and anxieties, unless Thou didst comfort me with Thy holy words?
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

For my part, I have that worse custom, that if my slipper go awry, I let my shirt and my cloak do so too; I scorn to mend myself by halves.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

You must simply get to sleep, or I won't answer for it.”
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

This put the nurse nearly beside herself; but all she could do was to run on, the moment she got the princess on her feet again.
— from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

Above all, he realised in his whole life the words to St. Peter: 'What God hath cleansed that call not thou common,' and not undervaluing for a moment Sacramental Grace, viewed human nature, while yet without the offer thereof, as still the object of fatherly and redeeming love, and full of fitful tokens of good coming from the only Giver of life and holiness, and needing to be brought nearer and strengthened by full union and light, instead of being left to be quenched in the surrounding flood of evil.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

[Pg 166] Fortified by the imperial favour, Kerlinger, the principal delegate, displayed great energy at Magdeburg, Erfurt, Mühlhausen, etc.; and notwithstanding the occasional opposition of a jealous episcopate the Inquisition had made such good progress by 1372 that it had apparently succeeded in driving its enemies out of northern and central Germany.
— from Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition by Arthur Stanley Turberville