This was not surprising, since Lincoln Island, probably situated between the thirty-fifth and fortieth parallel, would be subject, in the Southern Hemisphere, to the same climate as Sicily or Greece in the Northern Hemisphere.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink Nestor said, "Sons, put Telemachus's horses to the chariot that he may start at once.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Mr. Rushworth must and would improve in good society; and if Maria could now speak so securely of her happiness with him, speaking certainly without the prejudice, the blindness of love, she ought to be believed.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Ungguy nga nagkulaput (nanguláput) sa sanga, A monkey clinging to the branch.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He was not so smitten with the delightful situation of this ancient town, but that he abandoned it as soon as he could procure a post-chaise, in which he arrived at Paris, without having been exposed to any other troublesome adventure upon the road.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

So what occasion have I for these things?—But all I ask is about these four guineas, and if you think I need not return them, that is all I want to know.—To be sure, my dear, you need not, said she; you have well earned them by that waistcoat only.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Yet ever, he did not suspect such a formal science, but ran his ship ashore, for safety's sake, landing on scepticism, there to let it lie and rot; whereas my object is rather to give it a pilot, who, by means of safe astronomical principles drawn from a knowledge of the globe, and provided with a complete chart and compass, may steer the ship safely, whither he listeth.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

"Hereafter," he commanded, "no slaves should be allowed to come into your lines at all; if any come without your knowledge, when owners call for them deliver them."
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

I've been a wife, and I've been a mother, and I never see such unprincipled bread in Casterbridge as this before.—But you must be a real stranger here not to know what's made all the poor volks' insides plim like blowed bladders this week?”
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

But as I said, On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen; That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Marnoo, at the other extremity of the house, apparently desirous of making a diversion in my favour, exerted himself to amuse with his pleasantries the crowd about him; but his lively attempts were not so successful as they had previously been, and, foiled in his efforts, he rose gravely to depart.
— from Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville

If there be a majority in favor of the "constitution with slavery," then it is to be transmitted to Congress by the president of the convention in its original form; if, on the contrary, there shall be a majority in favor of the "constitution with no slavery," "then the article providing for slavery shall be stricken from the constitution by the president of this convention;" and it is expressly declared that "no slavery shall exist in the State of Kansas, except that the right of property in slaves now in the Territory shall in no manner be interfered with;" and in that event it is made his duty to have the constitution thus ratified transmitted to the Congress of the United States for the admission of the State into the Union.
— from State of the Union Addresses by James Buchanan

[Pg 67] kept at work on the hills on the north side and south side, and when the storm ceased Gen-er-al Howe saw that the forts were now so strong there would be no chance to take them.
— from The Life of George Washington. In Words of One Syllable by Josephine Pollard

We had no shelter save such as we made at last of sticks and logs that we were allowed to carry in from the neighboring wood.
— from With Fire and Sword by S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall) Byers

"I never said she was.
— from The Mystery Queen by Fergus Hume

Certes there is almost no village so poore in England (be it neuer so small) that hath not sufficient furniture in a readinesse to set foorth thrée or foure soldiers, as one archer, one gunner, one pike, & a bilman at the least.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

In the Palais Royal the still well-known Trois Freres Provenceaux was in vogue, and frequented much by the French officers; being celebrated chiefly for its wines and its Provence dishes: it was in the Palais Royal that General Lannes, Junot, Murat, and other distinguished officers, used to meet Bonaparte just before and during the Consulate; but the cafes, with the exception of the Mille Colonnes, were not nearly so smartly fitted-up as they now are.
— from Reminiscences of Captain Gronow by R. H. (Rees Howell) Gronow

"Can't you invent some kind of a machine for turnin' them neckbands out?" "Oh, I had a little something figured out the other night," says Simmons, "but what's the use of me botherin' with that?
— from Alex the Great by H. C. (Harry Charles) Witwer