Sí, no podía menos de decirlo: yo lo esperaba todos los días....
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

[FR, EN] [FR] Christiane Jadelot (Nancy) #Ingénieur d'études à l'INaLF (Institut national de la langue française) Laboratoire du CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), l'INaLF a pour mission de développer des programmes de recherche sur la langue française, tout particulièrement son lexique.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

This they would destroy, and pitched their camp about it, but when they had crossed their whole plain, Minerva darted down by night from Olympus and bade us set ourselves in array; and she found willing soldiers in Pylos, for the men meant fighting.
— from The Iliad by Homer

I am conscious, however, that the slight, unsatisfactory, and trivial manner, in which the result of my antiquarian researches has been recorded in the following pages, takes the work from under that class which bears the proud motto, “Detur digniori”.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

" The man lifts blood ( if universal Rumour can be credited ( Dulaure: Esquisses Historiques des principaux evenemens de la Revolution, ii. 206 ( cited in Montgaillard, iii. 205. ); the poor maiden does drink.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

But yet all is not don; Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his fealtie, and sinns Against the high Supremacie of Heav’n, Affecting God-head, and so loosing all, To expiate his Treason hath naught left, But to destruction sacred and devote, He with his whole posteritie must die, Die hee or Justice must; unless for him Som other able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction, death for death.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

I accordingly, with General Twiggs's approval, applied to the adjutant-general for a six months' leave, which was granted; and Captain John F. Reynolds was named to perform my duties during my absence.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

They were used by me when a child to pin my dolls' dresses together.
— from Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith May Bertels Thomas

A panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination can conceive.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The sailor passed the whole night in prayer, and when the dawn began to suffuse the sky with white tints, he went to the kennel, fetched a poor mangy dog dying in a corner, thrust it into the tent, and letting fall the curtain, waited for what would happen.
— from The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

Peter Martyr: Dialogs (Dialogi) Concerning the Humanity of Christ, the Property of the Natures, and Ubiquity , 1562.
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

A. Pleasant, merry dreams do follow the sanguine; fearful dreams, the melancholic; the choleric dream of children fighting and fire; the phlegmatic dream of water.
— from The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

Ils l'etoient autant que ce premier Monde différoit de celui que nous habitons.
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

A place more dreary, desolate to the eye, is seldom seen.
— from Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry