To which the owner of the ass replied, 'It's an excellent plan, I declare, gossip, and worthy of your great genius;' and the two separating as agreed, it so fell out that they brayed almost at the same moment, and each, deceived by the braying of the other, ran to look, fancying the ass had turned up at last.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I was plunged into deepest grief, prepared her body with my own hands for burial.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

This problem in dynamics gravely perplexed an American historian.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

But, before I begin to prove my Propositions in detailed geometrical fashion, it is advisable to sketch them briefly in advance, so that everyone may more readily grasp my meaning.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Beyond this somewhat indefinite limit of Duty extends the Virtue of Benevolence without limit: for excess is not thought to be possible in doing good to others, nor in the disposition to do it, unless it leads us to neglect definite duties.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

To this smutty regiment, who attended the progresses, and rode in the carts with the pots and kettles, which, with every other article of furniture, were then moved from palace to palace, the people, in derision, gave the name of black guards ; a term since become sufficiently familiar, and never properly explained.’”— Todd’s Johnson’s Dictionary.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

“Liza, it’s time we were going,” announced Praskovya Ivanovna disdainfully, getting up from her seat.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But even with the pale, the most frequent occasion upon which this proportion is definitely given, this exaggerated width will be presently explained.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Jacobo de la ſpada piu volte cō molte ſue laude haueua peregrato in diuerſe guize lo mare occeanno.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

FLOWERS.—June, after the leaves; dioecious; the staminate slender-pedicelled, borne in a dense raceme at the end of long, slender, drooping peduncles; the pistillate in dense, globose heads at the end of short, stout peduncles; calyx 4-lobed, hairy; corolla 0; stamens 4; style covered with white, stigmatic hairs.
— from Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species by Charles Herbert Otis

So towards the New Exchange, and there while my wife was buying things I walked up and down with Dr. Williams, talking about my law businesses, and thence took him to my brother's, and there gave him a glass of wine, and so parted, and then by coach with my wife home, and Sir J. M. and Sir W. B. being come from Chatham Pay I did go see them for complaisance, and so home and to bed. 8th.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

[Albert Zafy]; National Council of Christian Churches or FFKM Malawi Agri-Ecology Media (agriculture and environmental group); Malawi Law Society (human rights); Malawi Movement for the Restoration of Democracy or MMRD (acts to restore and maintain democracy); National Democratic Alliance or NDA (acts to restore democracy; Public Affairs Committee or PAC (promotes democracy, development, peace and unity) Malaysia Bersih (electoral reform); Sharia High Court other: religious groups; women's groups; youth groups Maldives other: various unregistered political parties Mali other: the army; Islamic authorities; rebels in the northern region; state-run cotton company CMDT; tuaregs Malta Alleanza Liberal-Demokratika Maltra ro ALDM (against illegal immigration); Alleanza Nazzionali Repubblikana or ANR (encourages tourism); Alternattiva Demokratika (campaign to reform rent law, and other campaigns); Azzjoni Nazzjonali or AN (freedom to participate in democratic government); Ghazdatal-Konsumaturi (consumer rights); Nazi Watch Malta (exposing Nazis) other: environmentalists Marshall Islands NA Mauritania General Confederation of Mauritanian Workers or CGTM
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But a mysterious law of spiritual economy, whose operation in the history of religion we may deplore though we cannot alter, has decreed that the miracles wrought by the god-man in these degenerate days cannot compare with those which were wrought by his predecessors in days gone by; and it is even reported that the only sign vouchsafed by him to the present generation of vipers is the miracle of feeding the multitude whom he annually entertains to dinner at Chinchvad.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Lord Norbury sang extremely well.—On my first circuit as counsel, in 1787, he went as judge, and I have often heard him warble “Black-eyed Susan” and “Admiral Benbow,” as well as parts in divers glees and catches, most agreeably.—Requiescat in pace!
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir

[’] in Russian palatalization, in Danish glottal stop.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

"With stops on the way at Miami, Puerto Rico, San Fernando in British Trinidad, Paramaribo in Dutch Guiana, Belem in Brazil, and Natal.
— from Dave Dawson at Casablanca by Robert Sidney Bowen