The latter determines to make use of the office in prosecuting his quarrel with Wittipol.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Then he saw that he was on fire, that all his corner was on fire, that his screen was on fire, that the whole flat was on fire, together with Ustinya Fyodorovna and all her lodgers, that his bed was burning, his pillow, his quilt, his box, and last of all, his precious mattress.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

‘“Hollands, sir,” replied the sexton, trembling more than ever; for he had bought it of the smugglers, and he thought that perhaps his questioner might be in the excise department of the goblins.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Ang íyang kasuk-ánun mauy usa ka kasukwahían sa íyang maáyung pamatásan, His quickness to anger is not in harmony with his good manners.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[68-5] a pulso, ora por medio de norias, el precioso humor que sirve de sangre a los vegetales!—La arena carece de 15 fecundos principios, del asimilable humus
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Au --, plus haut que.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Some of the men have a way of leading the cattle by a peculiar call, a wild, pensive hoot, quite musical, prolong'd, indescribable, sounding something between the cooing of a pigeon and the hoot of an owl.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"It is an unusually good one for a man like me to possess," he quietly said.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

With wife and gear upon a car He placed him quick, and sent him far.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Haec atque talia, ex hominum genere ludibria sibi, nobis miracula, ingeniosa fecit natura: et singula quidem, quæ facit indies, ac propè horas, quis enumerare valeat?
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

Yet he did not willingly return; he preferred his quiet life at Strasburg, but obeyed the voice of conscience.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation by John Lord

The pulse hath quickened.
— from The Scarlet Stigma: A Drama in Four Acts by James Edgar Smith

Some of the mountains we passed had queer names.
— from The Country of the Dwarfs by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

Later, she had seen him lounging on the veranda at Newton's, or hanging his bridle over the pegs outside Ezra Smith's billiard saloon, and neither her brain nor pulse had quickened at the sight of him.
— from The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard

Il faudroit donc me détacher d'un homme dont je connois le zèle, la fidélité, rompre tout d'un coup de petites habitudes qui sont liées avec le bien-être journalier et momentané, et se résoudre à lui substituer un visage nouveau, peut-être un mauvais sujet, toujours quelque aventurier Suisse pris sur le pavé de Londres.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

What do you mean?" asked Professor Henderson quickly.
— from Lost on the Moon; Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds by Roy Rockwood

And here she had been wondering how she could ever get to know some stranger well enough to put her questions.
— from The Boarded-Up House by Augusta Huiell Seaman