Since it was necessary that the new sect called Christians should be exterminated, the people judged it wise to make this work profitable to the State at the same time, and entertaining to the public.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

No sé cómo contestar, salvo una trivialidad, como "Cada uno se quedará con su lenguaje privilegiado, con el inglés como lengua de intercambio". ¿
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

s. is not, S, C, C2; see Nam .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connexions can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connexion can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

I ate no sweets, candy, cake, sweet drinks or ice cream, except as dessert 7.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

Corilla led him gaily into the circle of company with these words: "Miei Signori Io vi presento Il buon Uomo Gaetano; Che non sà che cosa sia Il misterio
— from Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Hester Lynch Piozzi

[559] "Conclusero una lega contra 'l Cardenal p'detto à diffesa commune contra chi volesse offendere alcun di loro, laqual confortorono con solenniss o giuramento, ne si curarono che se non li particolari fossero secreti per all'hora; ma publicorono questa loro unione, et questa lega fatta contra il Card le ."
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

De Jarnette, of the same State, said that Mr. Seward was "a perjured traitor, whom no Southerner could consistently support or even obey, should the nation elect him President."
— from Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George Washington Julian