He wandered along the bank of the Ekaterininsky Canal for half an hour or more and looked several times at the steps running down to the water, but he could not think of carrying out his plan; either rafts stood at the steps’ edge, and women were washing clothes on them, or boats were moored there, and people were swarming everywhere.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the New or the Old World, the merchant princes surrounded themselves with sumptuous furniture of mahogany, ebony, marquetry, ivory, lacquer, teak and sandal-wood, as well as porcelain, embroideries, rugs, screens and all kinds of stamped metal and bric-à-brac .
— from Dutch and Flemish Furniture by Esther Singleton

Colour very dark olive, with a yellow zigzag line on each side from the head to the base of the tail; the angular parts enclose rhombic spaces and lateral triangles; top of head black, with a pair of undulating yellow bands from the nape to the vertex; a bright golden band round the snout; labials bright yellow; ventral shields black, paler in the middle, with yellow triangular spots at their extremities.
— from Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-therapeutics by A. (Albert) Calmette

"The Princess!" ejaculated Richard, surprised at this allusion to that beautiful lady.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Québec avertir Nicolet de ce qui se passait et réclamer son assistance.
— from History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 With a Sketch of his Life by Consul Willshire Butterfield

The truth is that, as there are two definitions of the substantial form ( quæ dat primum esse materiæ: quæ dat primum esse rei ), so also there are two manners of understanding the so-called “substantial” generation; and, whilst Aristotle and his followers assumed without any good proof
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

THE O'HALLORAN LADIES.—THEIR APPEARANCE.—THEIR AGES.—THEIR DRESS.— THEIR DEMEANOR.—THEIR CULTURE, POLISH, EDUCATION, RANK, STYLE, ATTAINMENTS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM.
— from The Lady of the Ice: A Novel by James De Mille

Nihil illic deest; quicquid vehiculis pedestribus, et equestribus plaustris, et ratibus subministratur, abunde suppetit.
— from Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Dawson Turner

Geography was very imperfect; no police existed; roads, such as they were, were dangerous; and posts were not established.
— from Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole

James Logan , } Samuel Preston , } Esqrs; Robert Strettell , } Abraham Taylor , }
— from Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York For encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada by Cadwallader Colden

avait ainsi occupé, pour garder seulement son autorité première, et reprendre son ancienne position."
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard