Fetch it here, lad!—Here, put 'em up at this corner—No, tie 'em together first—they don't reach half high enough yet—Oh!
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

Paseábase cierto día el mercader por el gran bazar de la ciudad, cuando se le acercaron dos comerciantes a proponerle: el uno la compra de una partida de cristalería, y el otro una de esencia de rosa.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

A lawsuit is like an ill-managed dispute, in which the first object is soon out of sight, and the parties end upon a matter wholly foreign to that on which they began.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Finally, his name appeared in the lists of one or two great parties of the nobility, and this circumstance had a prodigious effect upon the old aristocrat of Russell Square.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

As soon as the rascal saw them returning, he said that he appealed to the king of la petite Egypte , upon which the captain exclaimed, "Ah!
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

It may be that carriage is at the bottom of this thing; and I think it is; for there are plenty of ladies and gentlemen in the provincial cities whose garments are all made by the best tailors and dressmakers of New York; yet this has no perceptible effect upon the grand fact: the educated eye never mistakes those people for New-Yorkers.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Je ne sais pas pour les autres langues mais, pour le français, il est certain que quand nous aurons atteint la proportion américaine de foyers connectés (50%), nous pourrons espérer une plus grande représentativité sur le web.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Comprendía páginas con enlaces hacia recursos disponibles localmente, y al principio The On-Line Books Page era una de estas páginas, con enlaces hacia libros puestos en línea por personas de nuestro departamento (por exemplo Robert Stockton, que hizo versiones web de algunos textos del Proyecto Gutenberg).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The professor expected us to be half savage, and found us quite like ordinary people.
— from Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini

To the honor of the craft, we may add that his widowed mother had a printing establishment under her own direction, probably derived from her first husband, Francis Vatar, printer to the king and parliament at Rennes, who prided himself on his hereditary art, his ancestors having been printers for many generations.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

On the death of Mr. Pickering, the destitute and afflicted people applied to Rotherham, and Mr. Isaac Vaughan came on probation, respecting whose introduction to Brigstock the following is recorded:— Isaac Vaughan, having been invited by the Church and congregation at Brigstock, and having visited the place, entered upon his labours the third Sabbath in July, 1837.
— from Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman

"I do not want any one to see my preparations for leaving; I have put everything under the counter," he whispered in reply.
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac

Myrtella objected to the inroads these invaders made on his time and strength, and she also objected to the extra work their presence entailed upon her.
— from A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

An' the young fry—they hed hed a steady diet o' sermons an' hyme chunes fur fower days—they tuk ter stragglin' off down the road, two an' two, like the same sorter idjits the world over, leavin' word with the old folks that the wagin would overtake 'em an' pick 'em up on the road when it passed.
— from The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

The ailerons are horizontal, connected with a control stick by means of wires, and, of course, tilt the plane either up or down.
— from Don Hale with the Flying Squadron by W. Crispin (William Crispin) Sheppard

XXXVIII Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn I lean'd, the Secret Well of Life to learn: And Lip to Lip it murmur'd—"While you live, Drink!—for, once dead, you never shall return."
— from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, Rendered into English Verse by Omar Khayyam

In this way we are more liable to be made ashamed by persons connected with us, since they are better acquainted with our deeds: whereas strangers and persons entirely unknown to us, who are ignorant of what we do, inspire us with no shame at all.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint