Quel ne fut pas son étonnement, lorsqu'elle revint une demi-heure après pour desservir, de trouver son maître devant la cheminée regardant attentivement l'œuf qu'il tenait
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Then he approached warily, and adopted conciliation; pursed up his lips and tried to whistle, but failed; still approached, saying, “Poor dog!—doggy, doggy, doggy!—poor doggy-dog!”
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

In the dim caverns of the gloomy Dis, Where, tracing mystic lines and characters, My soul abideth now, there came to me The sorrow-laden plaint of her, the fair, The peerless Dulcinea del Toboso.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[FR] [FR] Patrick Rebollar (Nagoya & Tokyo) #Professeur de littérature française, créateur d'un site web de recherches et activités littéraires et modérateur de la liste de diffusion LITOR (littérature et ordinateur) Professeur de français, de littérature française et d'applications informatiques dans des universités japonaises, à Tokyo et Nagoya, Patrick Rebollar utilise l'ordinateur pour la recherche et l'enseignement depuis plus de dix ans.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Then the brutal minions of the law fell upon the hapless Toad; loaded him with chains, and dragged him from the Court House, shrieking, praying, protesting; across the marketplace, where the playful populace, always as severe upon detected crime as they are sympathetic and helpful when one is merely ‘wanted,’ assailed him with jeers, carrots, and popular catch-words; past hooting school children, their innocent faces lit up with the pleasure they ever derive from the sight of a gentleman in difficulties; across the hollow-sounding drawbridge, below the spiky portcullis, under the frowning archway of the grim old castle, whose ancient towers soared high overhead; past guardrooms full of grinning soldiery off duty, past sentries who coughed in a horrid, sarcastic way, because that is as much as a sentry on his post dare do to show his contempt and abhorrence of crime; up time-worn winding stairs, past men-at-arms in casquet and corselet of steel, darting threatening looks through their vizards; across courtyards, where mastiffs strained at their leash and pawed the air to get at him; past ancient warders, their halberds leant against the wall, dozing over a pasty and a flagon of brown ale; on and on, past the rack-chamber and the thumbscrew-room, past the turning that led to the private scaffold, till they reached the door of the grimmest dungeon that lay in the heart of the innermost keep.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Quivi così parlò Riscyasringo agli Dei venuti a partecipare del sacrifizio: Questo è il re Dasaratha, che per desiderio di progenie già s' astrinse ad osservanze austeré, e testè pieno di fede ha a voi, O eccelsi, sacrificato con un Asvamedha.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

After breakfast I made him do his lessons; play dead dog, shake hands, stand up like a soldier.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Bermula orang itu tuboh-nya sadarhana lagi rendah rambuni dan sir(?)-nya tersangat panas deripada dingin dan orang itu perkata’an-nya benar lagi pula suroh-surohan orang dan bhagi-nya saperti ayer didalam timba rezki-nya.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Antrim Oratory, Killaloe, Clare O'Shaughnessy's Castle, Clognakilty, Cork Ossian's Poems (Scenery of), Cushendun, Antrim Ouchterard, Galway Oysters, Carlingford, Louth Pagan Fane, Skirk, Burros, Queen's County Pallis, Limerick Papp's Mountains, Mill Street, Cork Patrick's Isle, Balruddery, Dublin Philipstown, King's County Picts' Caves, Belfast, Antrim Pleaskin, Antrim Poll-a-phuca Cascade, Blessington, Wicklow Pontoon, Athlone, Westmeath Portadown, Armagh Portaferry, Down Portarlington, King's County Portarlington, Queen's County Portavo, Donaghadee, Down Portcoon Echo, Giant's Causeway, Antrim Portmore Castle, Ballinderry, Antrim Portumna, Galway Potatoes first planted at Youghall, Cork Powerscourt, Bray, Wicklow Priest's Leap, Bantry, Cork Prospect, Cappoquin, Lismore, Waterford Prospects (extensive), Curraghmore, Waterford Puffing Hole, Kilrush, Clare Purgatory, Donnegal Pyramid of White Stones, Birr, King's County Quakers' Colony, Ballitore, Kildare Quakers' Village, Londonderry Quarry of Alknever, Newton Limavaddy, Londonderry Quilca Mountain, Swadlinbar, Cavan Ram Island, Lough Neagh, Antrim Ram Island, Ballinderry, Antrim Randalstown, Antrim Rapho, Donnegal Rathbeath, Kilkenny Rathcormuck, Cork Rathdrum, Wicklow Rathean Common, Maryborough, Queen's County Rathfarnham, Dublin Rathfryland, Down Rathlin, Antrim Rathmelton, Letterkenny, Donnegal Reginald's Tower, Waterford Remon Lodge, Antrim Reverberating Cave, Iveragh, Kerry Rich Hill, Armagh Ringhaddy, Killyleagh, Down Rivers running N. and S. Loughbrickland, Down Roche's Waterfall, Balruddery, Dublin Romantic Bridge, Rathdrum, Wicklow Romantic Road, Glanbeny, Iveragh, Kerry Roscommon, Roscommon Roscrea, Tipperary Ross, Cork Ross, Wexford Ross Castle, Dalysbridge, Cavan Rostrevor, Down Round Tower, 112 feet high, 17½ feet from perpendicular, Lough Rea, Galway Rutland, Letterkenny, Donnegal Sacred Fire, Kildare St. Declan's Stone, Dungarvon, Waterford St. Doulogh's Church, Dublin St. Fechin's Monastery, Fore, Westmeath Saintfield, Comber, Down St. Finian's
— from The Scientific Tourist through Ireland in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque by Thomas Walford

And the problems Delaware does have are largely the result of du Pont's abdication of that r le, leaving the kind of power vacuum that inevitably attracts scoundrels to public office.
— from Diamond Dust by K. Kay Shearin

[149] Hoc ideo probamus, quia Passionis Domini Dies propinquabat, et scimus quo tempore passus sit.
— from Six Discourses on the Miracles of Our Saviour, and Defences of His Discourses by Thomas Woolston

When the last of the tape had been used and fastened with a small safety pin, Paul drew down the shirt sleeve, buttoned it, and then helped Jud on with his coat.
— from The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound; or, A Tour on Skates and Iceboats by George A. Warren

The fever increases, and there is more pain and oppression of the chest, particularly during deep respiration after exercise.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

Some of these poor dying devils jump at the chance to go West.
— from The Autobiography of a Thief by Hutchins Hapgood

In that chapter in which he discusses the criterion of a good government, he shows how the Egyptian hierarchy and the Chinese paternal despotism destroyed those countries by stereotyping their institutions.
— from Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden

In England I had several attacks of rheumatism in the left arm and shoulder; but these pains disappeared during my voyage to Boston.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard