The Senator had plenty of railway passes, and could easily spare two to Laura—one for herself and one for a male escort.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Qui ubi subiere, extemplo Latini, tamquam idem adversarii fecissent, triarios suos excitaverunt ; qui aliquamdiu pugna atroci cum et semet ipsi fatigassent et hastas aut praefregissent aut hebetassent , 10 pellerent vi tamen hostem, debellatum iam rati perventumque ad extremam aciem, tum consul triariis ‘Consurgite nunc’ inquit ‘integri adversus fessos, memores patriae parentumque et coniugum ac liberorum, memores consulis pro vestra victoria 15 morte occubantis.’
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

That he performed it properly all competent evidence shows, a foolish, inconclusive, and I fear it must be said emphatically snobbish story of Walpole's notwithstanding.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

“Mother,” said Totty, with her treble pipe, “Dinah was saying her prayers and crying ever so.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Even she had a part and came every Sunday.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Marilla’s was a rather prim and colorless epistle, severely innocent of gossip or emotion.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Paternal authority could easily suggest one symbol for social loyalty: the chief, probably a venerable and imperious personage, could be called a father and obeyed as a natural master.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

eine Reihe von Regeln für a set of rules for eine Risiko übernehmen take a risk eine Sache anhören und verhandeln to hear a case eine Sache dem Schiedsgericht unterbreiten to refer a matter to arbitration eine Sache gut bearbeiten; behandeln to handle a case well eine Scheck bezahlen; einlösen pay a cheque eine schriftliche Darstellung a statement in writing eine Schuld abarbeiten work off a debt eine
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Whereas Roger North [1] Esquier, with divers others of Our Subjects, as Adventurers for the intended Plantation and [22] setling of Trade and Commerce in those parts of the Continent of America neare and about the River of Amazones (which were presupposed not to be under the obedience and governement of any other Christian Prince or State) hath secretly conveyed himselfe away and hath disloyally precipitated and imbarqued himselfe, and his fellowes, and sodainly set to Sea with a pretended purpose to prosecute that designe, contrary to Our Royal pleasure and Commandement expresly signified unto him by one of Our principall Secretaries, Our Admirall of England having also refused him leave to go: We then having out of weightie considerations, and reason of State, and upon the deliberate advise of Our Privy Councell resolved to suspend and restraine the said Plantation and voyage for a time, and having thereupon streightly charged and commanded him the said North upon his duty and aleageance, that hee and his Associates should for a while surcease their Provisions, and should stay themselves and their Shipping, which they had already prepared, untill Our further pleasure should be made knowen unto them.
— from British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, 1603-1783 by Great Britain. Sovereign

Meanwhile Pascal and Clotilde enlarged still more their domain, taking longer and longer walks every day, extending them now outside the town into the open country.
— from Doctor Pascal by Émile Zola

Ichthyol 25 per [ 554 ] cent., Zinc Oxide Ointment, enough to make one ounce, spread upon old, clean, soft linen, and laid over the parts and changed every six hours, is an excellent healing application.
— from The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 4 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

A few minutes later a negro, panting for breath, bathed in perspiration, and completely exhausted, staggered into the glade where they were standing.
— from Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

In addition to the measurements of 38 skulls, * * * I have recently compared and carefully measured six Tchuktchi [probably Asiatic coast Eskimo] skulls, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, exhumed from the burial place of a village called Tergnyune, on the island of Arikamcheche, at Glassnappe Harbor, west of Bering Strait, and during a [Pg 232] recent visit to Philadelphia I enjoyed the advantage of examining, in company with Dr. J. Aitken Meigs, a series of 125 [eastern] Esquimaux crania, obtained by Doctor Hayes during his Arctic journey of 1860.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička

“She asked the Rajah to give a general what-you-may-call-it to everybody after the fight, and there has been peace and contentment ever since,” said Dick.
— from Draw Swords! In the Horse Artillery by George Manville Fenn

II For the same reason that it is considered wicked, in sundry circles, to speak of a non-Christian people having produced a civilization ethically superior to our own, certain persons will not be pleased by what I am going to say about ants.
— from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn

He laughed sneeringly at their futile attempts to deceive him, poured the heap into his pocket, and captured each separate coin that remained, by springing upon it.
— from The Mutable Many: A Novel by Robert Barr

After they had gone away, carrying my shin-kicking husband with them, I transformed myself back to my former shape again, and here I've lived in peace and comfort ever since."
— from The Tin Woodman of Oz A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

“As to accepting a place at court, even should it be offered me, I would refuse it, for my tastes lead me to seek my fortune on the wild ocean or in foreign lands; and it is with this object that I am about to visit the admiral, who will, I have been led to hope, forward my views.”
— from Exiled for the Faith: A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution by William Henry Giles Kingston