And how’s your family?” “Well, thank you,” the visitors respond, “and Padre Damaso?” “Padre Damaso will preach in the morning and sit in with us at night.” “Good enough!
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

As I advanced in years it was more strongly developed; becoming, for many reasons, a cause of serious disquietude to my friends, and of positive injury to myself.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

The second man said that if I placed four sheep in each of three pens and three sheep in the last pen (that is fifteen sheep in all), and one of the ewes in the last pen had a lamb during the night, there would be the same number in each pen in the morning.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Many small donations ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with the IRS.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

It was, as to all the rest, of a common form, and could stand upon its feet; could go and gabble much like other children of the same age; it had never as yet taken any other nourishment but from the nurse’s breasts, and what, in my presence, they tried to put into the mouth of it, it only chewed a little and spat it out again without swallowing; the cry of it seemed indeed a little odd and particular, and it was just fourteen months old.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Soon after the return of this detachment, the Roman catholic troops, being hard pressed in the main battle, sent for the body of reserve to come to their support.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

And down plumped Pollyanna in the middle of the dirt path by the old man's side.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Upon deposits of the coin current in the country, the bank grant receipts likewise, as well as bank credits; but those receipts are frequently of no value and will bring no price in the market.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Where I have come, great clerks have purposed To greet me with premeditated welcomes; 095 Where I have seen them shiver and look pale, Make periods in the midst of sentences, Throttle their practised accent in their fears,
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9] by William Shakespeare

If her reserved manner did not attract many young people, her society inspired the greater awe, as it was composed of graver persons, and the poor Jean-Jacques had no reason to flatter himself he should be able to take a distinguished part in the midst of such superior talents.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 07 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is a marked liability to serious complications, of which pneumonia is the most dangerous.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

It is inimitable and unforgettable how he would pause in the midst of some matter of the moment, to plunge into some subject which he knew would interest and benefit the other person.
— from Library Ideals by Henry Eduard Legler

Don Juan, in the first and best cantos, is a feeble copy of the Page in the Marriage of Figaro.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

circle as large as that of Paris, if too miscellaneous and extensive to become one multitudinous mutual-admiration-society, will, through cliques and coteries, betray some of its vices.
— from Essays Æsthetical by George Henry Calvert

" Takin' Gladys as a sample, you'd never guessed it; for Mother is a quiet, modest appearin' little party, with her wavy brown hair parted in the middle and brushed back low.
— from On With Torchy by Sewell Ford

There was not a great deal of paper work connected with his position; in twenty minutes he had cleared his desk, and, by the time he had finished this task, the first of his posse had sauntered into the doorway and stood leaning idly there, rolling a cigarette.
— from The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand

PART II The wedding took place in the middle of December.
— from Original Short Stories — Volume 09 by Guy de Maupassant

The tea prepared in the manner which I have just described is greenish in colour, and of a most excellent quality.
— from Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China Including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries; with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. by Robert Fortune