Pitt, dear Pitt! pity me, and reconcile us!"
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

ni hubo ocasión ni lugar There was no occasion or place por mi audacia respetado; respected by my audacity, ni en distinguir me he parado nor did I stop, for veracity, al clérigo del seglar.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

He is an ordinary party politician; a party politician means a politician who might have belonged to either party.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Ni atendis kun plezuro por vidi la krutajn montetojn kiuj estos videblaj tuj kiam la ŝipeto estos pasinta preter malgranda arbaro.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

The public peace might afford a pretence, but Zeno was desirous of monopolizing the valor and service of the Isaurians.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The state of feeling which produced this law, against the immensely strong conception of the patria potestas , may also have produced a folklore story telling how a boy once was exposed, in a peculiarly cruel way, by his wicked parents, and how Heaven preserved him to take upon both of them a vengeance which showed that the unnatural father had no longer a father's sanctity nor the unnatural mother a mother's.
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

I suppose Pittakos paid many a visit to the fisherfolk—he was young enough then.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

The councillors were, however, merely rude, and replied that the proud priests might ask as much as they pleased but would get no redress.
— from Luther, vol. 2 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

"Please put me at my ease.
— from Flowing Gold by Rex Beach

7. Give the names of the principal punctuation marks and the meaning of the names.
— from Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton

In view of this, it may not be amiss to set forth in a new volume a more or less thorough study of the Sunday school and the adolescent or teen age boy, the one in relationship to the other, and at the same time to set forth as clearly as possible the present plans, methods and attitude of the Sunday school, denominationally and interdenominationally.
— from The Boy and the Sunday School A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday School with Teen Age Boys by John L. Alexander

It was: “Oh, my poor pet Mumpsy, and he didn't like a nasty great big ugly heavy foot an his poor soft silky—mum—mum—back, he didn't, and he soodn't that he—mum—mum—soodn't; and he cried out and knew the place to come to, and was
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete by George Meredith

If the apparent civilization evolved by the nineteenth century had been good and wholesome, it might have been really sad to find that it was only a thin veneer laid over a structure that man's primitive passions might at any moment overturn.
— from International Finance by Hartley Withers