Certain it is that the whole story of the children and their cruel uncle was to be seen fairly carved out in wood upon the chimney-piece of the great hall, the whole story down to the Robin Redbreasts, till a foolish rich person pulled it down to set up a marble one of modern invention in its stead, with no story upon it.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

For one part of the population crosses, decorations, epaulets, offices, prestige, power, importance, dignities began to whirl about like butterflies in a golden atmosphere.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

A halfpenny is a “brown” or a “madzer (pronounced ‘medzer’) saltee” (Cant), or a “mag,” or a “posh,” or a “rap,”—whence the popular phrase, “I don’t care a rap.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

A treasure in it is conceal'd: The place, precisely, I don't know, But industry will serve to show.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

When an indefinite personal pronoun is desired, as in the expressions "one knows," "they say," "people say," "you can see," etc., the indefinite personal pronoun oni is used.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

One was a native of Crotona, a man who attained tyrannical power; the second was a Phliasian, a trainer of wrestlers, as some say; the third was a native of Zacynthus; the fourth was this our philosopher, to whom they say the mysteries of philosophy belong, in whose time that proverbial phrase, “Ipse dixit,” was introduced into ordinary life.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I set the two stories one against the other, so that you may see that it is not from mere mercenary motives that the present performer is desirous to show up and trounce his villains; but because he has a sincere hatred of them, which he cannot keep down, and which must find a vent in suitable abuse and bad language.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The perfect passive participle is declined like bonus, bona, bonum , and in the compound tenses ( § 202 ) it agrees as a predicate adjective with the subject of the verb.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

If the liquid is still red or reddish, add hydrogen peroxid, 1 cc. at a time, until the excess of potassium permanganate is destroyed.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[The King’s “Proclamation against vicious, debauched, and prophane Persons” is dated May 30th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He himself had felt as if that one event had made him old before his time; and had envied Tom the tears he had shed over poor, pretty, innocent, dead Lizzie.
— from Pearl-Fishing; Choice Stories from Dickens' Household Words; First Series by Charles Dickens

[62] A careful comparison of his various allusions to witchcraft will convince one that, while he assumed a belief in the practice, [63] partly perhaps in deference to James's views, [64] he inclined to explain many reported phenomena from the effects of the imagination
— from A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein

But as he is merely copying this precise passage , it does not at all help us.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

Communications Mexico Telephones - main lines in use: 19.512 million (2005) Telephones - mobile cellular: 47.462 million (2005) Telephone system: general assessment: low telephone density with about 18 main lines per 100 persons; privatized in December 1990; the opening to competition in January 1997 improved prospects for development, but Telmex remains dominant domestic: adequate telephone service for business and government, but the population is poorly served; mobile subscribers far outnumber fixed-line subscribers; domestic satellite system with 120 earth stations; extensive microwave radio relay network; considerable use of fiber-optic cable and coaxial cable international: country code - 52; satellite earth stations - 32 Intelsat, 2 Solidaridad (giving Mexico improved access to South America, Central America, and much of the US as well as enhancing domestic communications), 1 Panamsat, numerous Inmarsat mobile earth stations; linked to Central American Microwave System of trunk connections; high capacity Columbus-2 fiber-optic submarine cable with access to the US, Virgin Islands, Canary Islands, Morocco, Spain, and Italy (2005) Radio broadcast stations: AM 850, FM 545, shortwave 15 (2003)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

An Irish story of real power, perfect in development and showing a true conception of the spirited Hibernian character as displayed in the tragic as well as the tender phases of life.
— from The Black Box by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Say, grave priests, praying In dule and teen, From cells decaying What have ye seen Of the proud and mean, Of Judas and John, Of the foul and clean?— "They are dead and gone!"
— from Ballades and Verses Vain by Andrew Lang

Not merely was he newly shod, but he had been enjoying the unbroken freedom of a potrero for several days, and should therefore be in condition to hold his own for an indefinite period, provided I did not set too swift a pace.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

prononciation , f. , action de prononcer; articulation des lettres, des mots, etc. propager , multiplier par voie de reproduction. prophète, prophétesse , qui prédit par inspiration divine, ou qui annonce l'avenir par voie de conjecture.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Although there is one bit of verse in the foregoing sample column of Field's political paragraphs, it does scant justice to his most effective weapon.
— from Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Slason Thompson