Sancho held his peace in dread lest his master should carry out the vow he had hurled like a bowl at him.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

16 Pilar, Gregorio del, 303 Pineda, Don Antonio, 245 Pintados, Islas de los, 131 Piracy, 196 , 228 , 246 , 271 Pirates, 132 , 153 , 220 , 240 , 268 Pizarro, 73 Polistas, 168 [ 331 ] Polo, Marco 54 Poniente, Islas del 79 Portuguese colonies 147 , 195 Portuguese discover Eastern passage 61 Posts, Bureau of 312 Press, influence of 273 Primo de Rivera, General 285 Printing, Bureau of 313 Prisons 312 Progress and revolution 259 Pueblo 262 Raja 102 Rebellion of 1896 283 Recollects 169 Reformation 121 Regidor, Don Antonio 280 Religion of the Filipinos 105 Renaissance 45 Repartimientos 111 Residencia 201 Retana, W.E. 20 Revenues and Expenditures 313 Revolt of 1811 263 Revolution 249 Rizal y Mercado, Dr. José, 17 , 280 , 281 Rojo, Don Manuel 229
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

If fiends had set themselves to work, to discover a mode of most effectually destroying whatever is venerable, graceful, or permanent in domestic life, and of obtaining at the same time an assurance that the mischief which it was their object to create should be perpetuated from one generation to another, they could not have invented a more effectual plan than the degradation of marriage into a state of mere occasional co-habitation, or licensed concubinage.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Very merry at table, and the people I do love mightily, but being in haste to go to White Hall I rose, and Mr. Hunt with me, and by coach thither, where I left him in the boarded gallery, and I by appointment to attend the Duke of Yorke at his closett, but being not come, Sir G. Carteret and I did talke together, and [he] advises me, that, if I could, I would get the papers of examination touching the business of the last year’s prizes, which concern my Lord Sandwich, out of Warcupp’s hands, who being now under disgrace and poor, he believes may be brought easily to part with them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Two years previous Spangberg had sailed right across Kompagniland, Staatenland and Jeço, and thus made every point in De l'Isle's argument untenable.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Hec Grece scripta Latine reddidit vir doctus Edm̅ds de Prato, in Decretis Licenciatus e Coll.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The female mind, though cruelly practical in daily life, cannot bear to hear ideals belittled in conversation, and Miss Schlegel was asked however she could say such dreadful things, and what it would profit Mr. Bast if he gained the whole world and lost his own soul.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

'This is an extraordinary adventure,' said Emily, 'and much praise is due, Ludovico, to your prudence and intrepidity.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The perfect passive participle is declined like bonus, bona, bonum , and in the compound tenses ( § 202 ) it agrees as a predicate adjective with the subject of the verb.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

In Heaven, as I picture it, dear lady, you live and work instead of playing and pretending.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

They all carry their black velvet and plumes with the same high air, seem equally unacquainted with smiles and the lighter emotions, and breathe the same unapproachable perfection in domestic life.
— from The great Galeoto; Folly or saintliness two plays done from the verse of José Echegaray into English prose by Hannah Lynch by José Echegaray

I'm very fond of pa, I dearly love my ma; But when it comes to making pie, The cook, I think, just takes my eye.
— from Harper's Round Table, January 21, 1896 by Various

"Well—perhaps you're right, perhaps I did love with all my heart."
— from The Hermit Doctor of Gaya: A Love Story of Modern India by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

“We must find our way into one of the houses,” observed the bold rat; “let’s turn down this passage, it doubtless leads to some kitchen.”
— from The Rambles of a Rat by A. L. O. E.

XXI Now wound the path its dizzy ledge Around a precipice's edge, When lo! a wasted female form, 505 Blighted by wrath of sun and storm, In tattered weeds and wild array, Stood on a cliff beside the way, And glancing round her restless eye, Upon the wood, the rock, the sky, 510 Seemed naught to mark, yet all to spy.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

The shades of difference, too, between managers, superintendents, or masters; comptrollers, auditors, book-keepers, and accountants; secretaries, cashiers, treasurers, and paymasters in different localities would be tedious to draw.
— from The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke