“Where are you going?” “Oh, fear not,” said Maximilian, stopping at a short distance, “I do not intend to render another man responsible for the rigorous fate reserved for me.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And again this could have much finer features and a more pleasing and gentle cast of countenance provided it were not intended to represent a man, much less a warrior.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Dílì ta manig-ingun sa mga dátung mudagmal ug binatunan, We should not imitate the rich and mistreat our servants.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Jews are not in the Red Army, Mr. Cohan informs us, that is, in the ranks where the actual fighting is done; and this is strictly in line with the Protocols.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Padre Jarauta had destroyed my appetite the night previous, and this news equally perplexed me—for there was but one route directly through the town, and I had no inclination to run a muck; so following the advice of my guide José Maria, to lay by a few hours, and learn the state of affairs from some one passing along the road, we descended a small ravine entirely sheltered from view, where the horses were unsaddled, and a temporary screen made with the serapas, to shield us from the noontide sun.
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

A noise in the room above my head startled and hurried me.
— from Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton

I own I had a hard tussle before I could make up my mind to spend another night in that room; and my feelings as I shut the door on my retreating maid, and prepared to get into bed, were not the most [280] enviable.
— from Scottish Ghost Stories by Elliott O'Donnell

What have your laws and your gospels, your churches and sabbaths sufficed— That here in this freest land, and now in this ripest age, Men give up reason and manhood for brutal fury and rage?
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Nor is that realism a mere literary pose.
— from Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark by J. C. (Jens Christian) Aaberg

As we had no sleep the night before, but rode all night, and now were walking all night in the rain and mud, and without food, you may know we were in a wretched condition.
— from From Bull Run to Appomattox: A Boy's View by Luther W. Hopkins

I'm not in the room any more."
— from Legacy by James H. Schmitz

The last [pg 080] old woman that spoke Cornish, and to whose memory it is now intended to raise a monument, represented by herself alone the ancient language of Cornwall.
— from Lectures on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Her voice which has the extensive range of to is both full and powerful in the low and middle notes, but the transition to the voce di testa at very observable, and from three to four notes in that region are much weaker, than the deeper and highest; for which reason she gives all [Pg 27] passages which occur in those notes, with half-voice, only in order to conceal the inequality.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr