And pale, exhausted Nellie, gasping and swallowing her tears, began describing to the doctor her husband’s illness, her unutterable terror.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

non vonne errando, E non piango, e non grido?
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If I had any indication of the nature of your suspicions or how you propose to investigate the case, I might perhaps even now give you some aid or advice.”
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

ons of the peopled earth, nor gods nor men his neighbors!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

They will evince that monopolies and restraints on commerce were well understood in Rajwara, though the doctrines of political economy never gained footing there.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Una solución es de hacer pagar el acceso a la información, pero eso no garantiza en absoluto la copia ulterior.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

She would probably even now get a post quite easily as assistant in one of the higher grade schools, or even in Willey Green School.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

But we are much impressed at the hotel by the grave Hindoo waiters, who serve at table in a close-fitting habit, like the present extremely narrow gown worn by ladies, and ludicrous to our eyes accustomed to the flowing robes of the Arabs.
— from My Winter on the Nile Eighteenth Edition by Charles Dudley Warner

Carrer's ballads are esteemed the best of his poems; and I may offer an idea of the quality and manner of some of his ballads by the following translation, but I cannot render his peculiar elegance, nor give the whole range of his fancy: THE DUCHESS.
— from Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells

When the visit was over and they were once more out of the house, Mrs. Luttrell exclaimed: “That’s Dick Brandon’s doings—that poor Elizabeth not going to a place and moping in that hole of a house.
— from Mrs. Darrell by Foxcroft Davis

An attachment on her part ensued, not greater, perhaps, than he contemplated with a culpable satisfaction as long as it threatened no very great disturbance of his peace, but which must have given him great remorse in after-times, when he reflected upon his encouragement of it.
— from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt

Your rabbits fricaseed and chicken, With curious choice of dainty picking, Each night got ready at the Crown, With port and punch to wash ’em down.
— from A Poetical Cook-Book by Maria J. Moss

No public edifice; no gay villas; no busy hum of men; no crowded wharfs!
— from The East India Vade-Mecum, Volume 1 (of 2) or, complete guide to gentlemen intended for the civil, military, or naval service of the East India Company. by Thomas Williamson

It appears that Grifonetto was too weak to speak, but that he made a signal of assent, and received his mother's blessing at the last: 129 'E allora porse el nobil giovenetto la dextra mano a la sua giovenile matre strengendo de sua matre la bianca mano; e poi incontinente spirò l' anima dal formoso corpo, e passò cum infinite benedizioni de sua matre in cambio de la maledictione che prima li aveva date.'
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

We shall be Dear playmates ever, never growing old,— Or if we do 'twill be at such a pace Time will grow weary chiding, leaving us To come at will. Hen.
— from Lords and Lovers, and Other Dramas by Olive Tilford Dargan

Ye two are the opposite poles of one thing; Starbuck is Stubb reversed, and Stubb is Starbuck; and ye two are all mankind; and Ahab stands alone among the millions of the peopled earth, nor gods nor men his neighbors!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville