The Oratio Obliqua of the original he renders partly as Reported Speech and partly as Oratio Recta.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

But, on the other hand, where feeling is stirred, where the requisite stimulus exists, where the people are in great danger, or allured by the prize of some breathless adventure, the contact produces the spark of divine poetry, the myths are full of artistic, philosophic, and religious suggestiveness, and have abiding significance and charm.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The later and stricter form of the Septenarius keeps the arses of the odd feet pure, and regularly shows a diaeresis after the fourth foot. –́ ⏑ | –̇ ⏑͐ | –́ ⏑ | –̇ ⏑͐ # –́ ⏑ | –̇ ⏑͐ | –́ ⏑ | –̇ ⌃ Resolutions occur, but are far less common than in the earlier form of the verse.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, perfumed and radiant, still a little like working-women, and not yet entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall in woman.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Mr Richard Swiveller’s apartments were in the neighbourhood of Drury Lane, and in addition to this convenience of situation had the advantage of being over a tobacconist’s shop, so that he was enabled to procure a refreshing sneeze at any time by merely stepping out upon the staircase, and was saved the trouble and expense of maintaining a snuff-box.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

So tell the Pope, all reverence set apart To him and his usurp'd authority.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[226] Larum , n. †An apparatus attached to a clock or watch, to produce a ringing sound at any fixed hour.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

And as we are very far from the best imaginable world at present, Plato here, as in the Phaedo and Republic, supposes a purgatory or place of education for mankind in general, and for a very few a Tartarus or hell.
— from Gorgias by Plato

Many of the old houses, round about, speak very plainly of those days when Kingston was a royal borough, and nobles and courtiers lived there, near their King, and the long road to the palace gates was gay all day with clanking steel and prancing palfreys, and rustling silks and velvets, and fair faces.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

In West Africa they say that if you plant a rotten stick, a barren tree will grow to the height of twenty feet in twenty months, but if you plant a grain of corn nothing will appear.
— from The West Indies by John Henderson

The exaggerated rumor of his defeat was hastily carried to the ears of Belisarius: he paused; betrayed in that single moment of his life some emotions of surprise and perplexity; and reluctantly sounded a retreat to save his wife Antonina, his treasures, and the only harbor which he possessed on the Tuscan coast.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon

There was one fixed point, however, at which she always abandoned the cause of her reverend protege —it was so soon as she learned he had preached a regular sermon against slanderers and backbiters.
— from The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott

Mr. Gladstone had come up from Hawarden under the impression that Hartington was going to resign, because we would not produce a redistribution scheme along with franchise.
— from The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

And Christine had them taken into her mother’s room, and for a whole hour sat beside her and showed her books full of pictures, and read short anecdotes from the magazine volume, and Margot for a while seemed interested, but finally said with an air of great weariness: “Tak’ them all awa’, dearie.
— from Christine: A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia E. Barr

In lower life, a SPUD is a raw potato; and roasted SPUDS are those cooked in the cinders with their skins on.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

As they stood talking, men from the clubs, the theatre and dinner-party passed and repassed, staring at her impudently all the while.
— from Crying for the Light; Or, Fifty Years Ago. Vol. 1 [of 3] by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

Before the steps is placed a round stone altar.
— from The Spell of the Heart of France: The Towns, Villages and Chateaus about Paris by André Hallays