Cet auteur dit que pour comprendre comme Lipse, il a pû composer un ouvrage le premier jour de sa vie, il faut s’imaginer, que ce premier jour n’est pas celui de sa naissance charnelle, mais celui au quel il a commencé d’user de la raison; il veut que ç’ait été
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

They had no ritual, no little set of performances called “divine service,” save those religious pageants I have spoken of, and those were as much educational as religious, and as much social as either.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

IV.— Importunity and Opportunity of Time, Place, Conference, Discourse, Singing, Dancing, Music, Amorous Tales, Objects, Kissing, Familiarity, Tokens, Presents, Bribes, Promises, Protestations, Tears, &c. All these allurements hitherto are afar off, and at a distance; I will come nearer to those other degrees of love, which are conference, kissing, dalliance, discourse, singing, dancing, amorous tales, objects, presents, &c., which as so many sirens steal away the hearts of men and women.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Some perfects occur only in composition: as, percellō , knock down , perculī ; cōntundō , smash to pieces , contudī ; diffindō , split apart , diffidī ; but fidī also occurs a couple of times as a simple verb.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The result was that many of the vessels heeled over and fell on their sides: some completely capsized; while the greater number, by their prows coming down suddenly from a height, dipped low in the sea, shipped a great quantity of water, and became a scene of the utmost confusion.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Placet creari decemviros sine provocatione , et ne quis eo anno alius magistratus esset . . .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Species of bowing such as legato , detached, staccato , spiccato , portamento , martellato , light staccato , saltando , attack at the nut and at the point, and (down bow and up bow), in every degree of tone, fortissimo , pianissimo , crescendo , diminuendo , sforzando , morendo —all this belongs to the natural realm of the string quartet.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Créame usted, amigo mío, créame usted, y no digo esto por mortificarle; usted ha sido el primer caballero de su posición que a la luz del día... el primero, sí señor ...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The following edict, which caused this action, I translated from the archives; it is addressed to the son of Sawaldas:—“Maharana Amra Singh to Rathor Rae Singh Sawaldasot (race of Sawaldas)—Lay waste your villages and the country around you—your families shall have other habitations to dwell in—for particulars consult Daulat Singh Chondawat: obey these.”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The treatment follows the divisions logically and systematically, without any of the perplexing cross divisions so frequently made.
— from The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers by Steele, Richard, Sir

The tear of contrite sorrow, shed By penitence, cast down, Shall flash, when solar rays have fled, In an eternal crown; That tear shall scintillate, and shine, When comets cease to soar;
— from Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems by Alfred Castner King

Looking at the partly closed doors, she perceived that something was caught between them.
— from Little Tom by Václav Tille

This boy, who was evidently a type of the mischievous class of idiots, was once turned out of the Parish Church during service, for pricking another boy with a pin, so that he yelled out and disturbed the whole congregation.
— from The Idiot: His Place in Creation, and His Claims on Society by Bateman, Frederick, Sir

I daresay some Anarchist in his prison could devise something better, but they are afraid of trying Anarchism.
— from A Rainy June, and Other Stories by Ouida

In the same rodes he mette with diuers of the people of the Countrey at sundry times, as once at a place called Dauids sound: who shot at our men, and very desperately gaue them the onset, being not aboue three or foure in number, there being of our Countrey men aboue a dozen: but seeing themselues not able to preuaile, they tooke themselues to flight; whom our men pursued, but being not vsed to such craggie cliffes, they soone lost the sight of them, and so in vaine returned.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 America, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

Mr. Bright not long ago specially recommended the less known American poets, but he probably assumed that every one would have read Shakespeare, Milton ( Paradise Lost , Lycidas , Comus and minor poems), Chaucer, Dante, Spencer, Dryden, Scott, Wordsworth, Pope, Byron, and others, before embarking on more doubtful adventures.
— from The Pleasures of Life by Lubbock, John, Sir