don't move; if your pistol hurts ye, take it off.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Las ambiciones turbulentas que agitan de tiempo en tiempo a estos hombres, no son eternas: ellas pasarán en la América del Sur como pasarán en Francia, como pasaron hace ya tiempo en Inglaterra.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

But perhaps the most poetical thing Pompeii has yielded to modern research, was that grand figure of a Roman soldier, clad in complete armor; who, true to his duty, true to his proud name of a soldier of Rome, and full of the stern courage which had given to that name its glory, stood to his post by the city gate, erect and unflinching, till the hell that raged around him burned out the dauntless spirit it could not conquer.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The mile, in the hands of Eutropoius, (ix. 24,) of Festus (c. 25,) and of Orosius, (vii 25), easily increased to several miles] As soon as Diocletian had indulged his private resentment, and asserted the majesty of supreme power, he yielded to the submissive entreaties of the Caesar, and permitted him to retrieve his own honor, as well as that of the Roman arms.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Listen,--here:-- (Reciting): 'The more of my poor heart you take The larger grows my heart!' (Triumphantly to Cyrano): How like you those lines?
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

“Under Pantin [Paris].” “Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?” “Pardi.” Éponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the road by which they had come.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I tickled his tightened balls with my hand, and pressed a finger hard against his bottom-hole, but without entering more than the depth of the nail, at the very instant that he poured his young tribute into my longing mouth.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

If you forget the meaning of vello , the supine vulsum through some English derivative—e.g. re-vulsion , con-vulsion —will probably help you to the root-meaning.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

7 potuisti = had you the heart to —question indicated by tone of the voice.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

For my own part, I, who am the least amongst the poets, have yet the fortune to be honoured with the best patron, and the best friend.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by John Dryden

The mountains in the distance assumed a variety of purple and violet hues, tinged with gold, of the most extraordinary warmth and intensity, while the total absence of vegetation imparted to the whole scene, consisting exclusively of ground and sky, a look of grand nudity and savage severity that is to be found in no other country, and which no painter has yet transferred to canvass.
— from Wanderings in Spain by Théophile Gautier

Social ostracism in two countries was rather much for a man, who has passed his youth, to face complacently.
— from The Bigamist by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young

Octave, who was reducing his presents, had yielded to a miserly idea.
— from Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

She softly said to him—"O Pythias, have you then forgotten the torch?"
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus

At present, although there is much complaining about catches falling off, many grounds yielding but a poor harvest, yet tons of fish are annually sent away from the markets for manure.
— from A Handbook of Fish Cookery: How to buy, dress, cook, and eat fish by Lucy H. (Lucy Helen) Yates

The most interesting parts have yet to be told."
— from The Beautiful Miss Brooke by Louis Zangwill

Which question or questions on this paper has your training in English best fitted you to answer?
— from Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College by Gilbert Sykes Blakely

And since when, pray, have you taken to cooking? CATHERINE.
— from Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw