The various belligerent Governments, unable, or too timid or too short-sighted to secure from loans or taxes the resources they required, have printed notes for the balance.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Todos los personajes nombrados fueron entrando en la 5 sala.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The register of births proves nothing, for not one tenth of the people of London are born there.' BOSWELL.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Specimens of Plants numbered frome 1 to 60.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

She replied in a perfectly rational manner to all that I said; and even her original observations were marked with the soundest good sense, but a long acquaintance with the metaphysics of mania, had taught me to put no faith in such evidence of sanity, and I continued to practise, throughout the interview, the caution with which I commenced it.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

At this instant one or two of those squires who were posted as sentinels on the roads, to watch who came along them and report what passed to their chief, came up and said, "Senor, there is a great troop of people not far off coming along the road to Barcelona."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He speaks in the Parliament, not for the benefit of the country, but only for himself.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"Pleasant news for your family," growled Elliott in suppressed fury.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

As our own aim is to understand if possible, I make no apology for singling out this particular notion for very explicit treatment before taking up the descriptive part of our work.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The “Washoe Zephyr” (Washoe is a pet nickname for Nevada) is a peculiar Scriptural wind, in that no man knoweth “whence it cometh.”
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Not satisfied with calling upon children to revolt against their parents, and to possess themselves of their substance, there are cases where the withdrawing of the child from his father's obedience is not left to the option of the child himself: for, if the wife of a Roman Catholic should choose to change her religion, from that moment she deprives her husband of all management and direction of his children, and even of all the tender satisfaction which a parent can feel in their society, and which is the only indemnification he can have for all his cares and sorrows; and they are to be torn forever, at the earliest age, from his house and family: for the Lord Chancellor is not only authorized, but he is strongly required, to take away all his children from such Popish parent, to appoint where, in what manner, and by whom they are to be educated; and the father is compelled to pay, not for the ransom, but for the deprivation of his children, and to furnish such a sum as the Chancellor thinks proper to appoint for their education to the age of eighteen years.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The life-blood from Ellsworth's heart had stained not only the Confederate flag, but a gold medal found under his uniform, bearing the legend: “Non solum nobis, sed pro patria”; “Not for ourselves alone, but for the country.” H2 anchor GENERAL SCOTT AND THE STARS AND STRIPES
— from Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott

To be men, perhaps; nay, faith, like enough: I often march in the rear of my master, and enter the breaches which he has made.
— from The Old Bachelor: A Comedy by William Congreve

Pull now for the shore under Gunner's Meadow.'
— from The Roll-Call Of The Reef by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Of course both ranch girls were excited and nervous, but of the two Olive was plainly the more affected, for while Jean talked and laughed in a perfectly natural fashion, she was pale and silent and oftentimes on the verge of tears.
— from The Ranch Girls at Boarding School by Margaret Vandercook

It must have been a very special object with him to obtain the hearty co-operation of the Phoenician naval forces in the attack which he was meditating, since he would otherwise have had no fleet at all capable of coping with the fleet of Egypt.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

Most people never find it out at all.
— from The Promise of Air by Algernon Blackwood

I had no pain, no fever, and no chill, But lay without ambition, strength, or will, Knowing no wish for anything but rest, Which seemed, of all God's store of gifts, the best.
— from Maurine and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Marius examined for two or three days the old man, who was not yet aged, and this little girl, who was not yet a maiden, and then paid no further attention to them.
— from Les Misérables, v. 3/5: Marius by Victor Hugo