Every cultivator who does not act in accordance with the ordinance laid down in paragraphs 9 and 10 above, will be in the same case as if he disregarded all the prohibitions laid down in connection with planting.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Observe too how all passionate language does of itself become musical,—with a finer music than the mere accent; the speech of a man even in zealous anger becomes a chant, a song.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

[6-5] deseando abrazarlos y pagar las deudas que para comer hayan hecho aquellos infelices, ¿cómo he de perder [6-6] ese dinero, que es para mí un tesoro?—¡Piedad, señores!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

" Vide, Novum Organum : Lib. II., xxxvi., where it is explained as follows: Inter Praerogativas Instantiarum ponemus loco decimo quarto INSTANTIAS CRUCIS ; translate vocabulo a Crucibus, quae erectae in Biviis, indicant et signant viarum separationes.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

—¡Mis tierras!—exclamó con júbilo el caballero, tendiendo la vista por los tristes campos que alumbraban las primeras luces de la mañana.—Es la primera vez que veo 15 el patrimonio que heredé de mi madre.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

We find more trustworthy accounts of it in the Chow shu ; thus it is mentioned in that history, that there sometimes arises in this desert a 'burning wind,' pernicious to men and cattle; in such cases the old camels of the caravan, having a presentiment of its approach, flock shrieking to one place, lie down on the ground and hide their heads in the sand.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

“He’s such a perfect little darling.”
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Say, Will, how is poor little Dodo getting on?" "Oh, as well as you can expect.
— from The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake; Or, The Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat Gem by Laura Lee Hope

He would be content with one thousand crowns—"il quale, quando avesse potuto liberarsi dalle carceri, sarebbe ito volontieri a vivere e morire in Roma, contendandosi di mille scudi annui."—Barberini
— from The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Hilaire Belloc

But at that moment a red gleam came from the room below, and before she could spring from her bed and look down the gleam had become a flame, lighting up the place like dawn.
— from Lady Kilpatrick by Robert Williams Buchanan

The negroes go, black faces crowding together; And between the palm leaves dancing with lethargic gestures, The bright long water spreads, green as a parrot's wing— We have rest here and a monotony of wheels, A peaceful noise like bees that moan in June—
— from Poems by Iris Tree

This doctrine and its coincidence with the doctrine of science appears marvelous, when it is recalled that the Prophet laid down these teachings in 1831, more than ten years before they were discovered by scientists, and a generation before they were generally accepted by the scientific world.
— from Joseph Smith as Scientist: A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by John Andreas Widtsoe

R.C. and I began to chatter like boys, and to walk toward the glade, without any particular object in mind, when my roving eye caught sight of a moving brown and checkered patch low down on the ground, vanishing behind a thicket.
— from Tales of lonely trails by Zane Grey

Does the hunter, when the wolf is in the pit, leap down to try conclusions with him.
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

When Pope lay dying, Bolingbroke wept over his friend exclaiming, 'O great God, what is man!'
— from The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis