Now, it would be only to risk the shedding of more blood than perhaps has yet been spilled.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Ho, Dang ’Pok, Dang Mĕleni, 212 (and) Dang Salamat, who carriest the pole slung on thy back, Gather together and press hitherwards your attendants.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

You had already passed half your life in coveting that which you might have honorably acquired; and already you contemplated crime under the excuse of want, when God worked a miracle in your behalf, sending you, by my hands, a fortune—brilliant, indeed, for you, who had never possessed any.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Yes, and perhaps hit you through both the nostrils.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

The pious Prince beheld young Lausus dead; He grieved, he wept; then grasped his Hand, and said, Poor hapless Youth!
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

I took no notice, but said to Le Gros, "A propos, have you given my sinfonie to be copied?"
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In passing, have you any pistols?"
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

I heard from Major Prendergast how you saved him in the Tankerville Club Scandal.”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

But the judge ought to have had no similar experience of evil; he is to be a good man who, having passed his youth in innocence, became acquainted late in life with the vices of others.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

“'One God alone, thou shalt adore, And love him perfectly.' “Have you ever loved anything, or anybody, as well as you loved God?
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I T may fairly be claimed that humanity has, within the past hundred years, found a way of carrying a theatre in its pocket; and so long as humanity remains what it is, it will delight in taking out its pocket-stage and watching the antics of the actors, who are so like itself and yet so much more interesting.
— from The Novel; what it is by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Mao ra man Measure me for a dozen of drawers Patabas aco ug usa ca docenas sa calzoncillos I have them cut out Duna man aco mg̃a tinabas na So much the better Maayo pa Have you undershirts?
— from Mga Paquigpulong sa Iningles ug Binisaya by Gregorio de Santiago Vela

From a steamer which passed here yesterday afternoon, in sight of our island?" "And you said nothing to me about it!"
— from Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery by Jules Verne

Evadne made it her earnest request that the tale of their loves should not be revealed to his mother; and after for a while contesting the point, he yielded it to her.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This maiden she was past her youth,
— from Poems of James McIntyre by James McIntyre

And if it had so chanced that all of them had come together, no one, I think, would have been able easily to destroy their power; but, as it was, Germanus anticipated this, and, before the greater part had yet arrived, he straightway sent against them all who were well-disposed to himself and to the emperor.
— from History of the Wars, Books III and IV The Vandalic War by Procopius

So polite are they that not a single English person has yet mentioned our Note to me—not one.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick

Why are you so sure that I should have told Sedbergh in any case, or insisted upon Humphrey telling him?" "Because I see so plainly how your mind has worked all along.
— from The Honour of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall

Birds of central or southern México reach the southern part of Coahuila; the Thick-billed Parrot, Hooded Yellowthroat, and Rufous-capped Atlapetes are examples.
— from Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Emil K. Urban