And as there have been in all ages such blasphemous spirits, so there have not been wanting their patrons, protectors, disciples and adherents.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

" Pretty Pelagueya, dainty and sweet, brought towels and soap, and Aliokhin led his guests to the bathing-shed.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I know well when he goes on with his idiotics because he has sense enough not to squander every penny piece he earns down their gullets and looks after his wife and family goodfornothings poor Paddy Dignam all the same Im sorry in a way for him what are his wife and 5 children going to do unless he was insured comical little teetotum always stuck up in some pub corner and her or her son waiting Bill Bailey wont you please come home her widows weeds wont improve her appearance theyre awfully becoming though if youre goodlooking what men wasnt he
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Visitábale con frecuencia el teniente coronel Pinzón, para ponerse de acuerdo respecto al enredo que entre 25 manos traían, y para cuyo eficaz desempeño mostraba el soldado felices disposiciones.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

ende m. ‘ end ,’ conclusion , Mt : boundary, border, limit , Ps ; Æ, AO, CP: quarter, direction : part, portion, division , AO: district, region , AO: species, kind, class : death .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The negro has his ferocious man-eating idols; the polygamous Mahometan fills his paradise with women; the Greeks, like a practical people, deified all the passions.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“Oh, why didn’t you put on your pretty pansy dress?” asked Anne, when they left home.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Or by particular parts distempered, as brain, heart, spleen, liver, mesentery, pylorus, stomach &c. Subs.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

However this was considerably more than was allowed to other slaves that used to work with me, and belonged to other gentlemen on the island: those poor souls had never more than nine pence per day, and seldom more than six pence, from their masters or owners, though they earned them three or four pisterines
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

He laid himself down, but the excitement caused by his strange and perilous position drove all slumber from his eyelids.
— from King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

The matter with the man, I think, was the greatness of the opportunity; he reeled under his good fortune; and whether he did ill or well, the exposure of these pious “phantoms” did as a matter of fact silence in all that part of the island the voice of the scoffer.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Kings and cottagers, statesmen and shopkeepers, bishops and play-actors, rich brewers and penniless poets, dukes and innkeepers, country parsons and gay young men of the town, street beggars and fashionable ladies—all play their part in the story and shew us a picture of the English world in the eighteenth century such as no history-book can give.
— from The Story of Doctor Johnson; Being an Introduction to Boswell's Life by S. C. (Sydney Castle) Roberts

He wrote in 1880 a Mathilde , for which he could find no publisher, presently died, and began to be famous on the posthumous issue of his poems, edited by Vosmaer and Kloos, in 1883.
— from Footsteps of Fate by Louis Couperus

One reason why the Protestant princes of Germany were unable immediately to make strong protest to the French crown was that the envoys of the elector palatine, the dukes of Deuxponts and Württemberg, the landgrave of Hesse and the margrave of Baden, were unprovided for a month with letters of safe conduct, by the precaution of the Guises, with the result that Roggendorf led 1,200 cavalry in the first week in May across the Rhine and through Trèves into France for the Guises, though the Protestant princes did all they could to hinder the passage and expostulated with the bishops of Trèves and Cologne for allowing them to be levied in their territories.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

Poi piovve dentro a l'alta fantasia un crucifisso dispettoso e fero ne la sua vista, e cotal si moria; intorno ad esso era il grande Assuero, Ester sua sposa e 'l giusto Mardoceo, che fu al dire e al far cosi` intero.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

Several times I would flip over in the book to the next empty page, put down an entry, and later I’d take the first few pages that I had left out, left where I could and there would be a number Jack would want to keep and I’d write the number down.
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Lou plus pichoun diguét a son päiré, "Moun päiré, dounas mi ce què mi reven de vouastré ben;" lou pairé faguet lou partagé de tout ce que poussédavo.
— from A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

[Paterfamilias, highly pleased, pays deposit, and arranges to send for his bargain in the morning.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891 by Various