Divers negroes, in very free-and-easy pantaloons, and with no redundancy in the shirt line, were scuttling about, hither and thither, without bringing to pass any very particular results, except expressing a generic willingness to turn over everything in creation generally for the benefit of Mas’r and his guests.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Admiranda profecto res est, et digna expensione, quod sonorum concinnitas mentem emolliat, sistatque procellosas ipsius affectiones.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Nisi ortum ducat a sanguine, ne morbus inde augeatur; phlebotomia refrigerat et exiceat, nisi corpus sit valde sanguineum, rubicundum.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

If we keep to this hypothesis, as a principle which is purely regulative, even error cannot be very detrimental.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Note 37 ( return ) [ Totam illam veterem et squalentem sylvam legum novis principalium rescriptorum et edictorum securibus truncatis et caeditis; (Apologet. c. 4, p. 50, edit.
— 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

La abierta del ventanillo sacó al tío Paciencia 25 de sus cavilaciones.—¡Calla!—exclamó el portero, reparando en el tío Paciencia.—¿Qué hace Vd.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

aux Etats-Unis et au Canada, avec nombre des caractéristiques actuelles; 2. des internets nationaux séparés, avec des liens limités avec l'extérieur; 3. un nouvel internet général pour relier entre eux les nets de la catégorie 2; 4. et peut-être un internet spécifique à l'Union européenne.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Accordingly, they both being come, the Soldan, in the presence of many, with a stern countenance commanded Ambrogiuolo to tell the truth how he had won of Bernabo the five thousand gold florins; and Sicurano himself, in whom he most trusted, with a yet angrier aspect, threatened him with the most grievous torments, an he told it not; whereupon Ambrogiuolo, affrighted on one side and another and in a measure constrained, in the presence of Bernabo and many others, plainly related everything, even as it passed, expecting no worse punishment therefor than the restitution of the five thousand gold florins and of the stolen trinkets.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

y Pepe Rey entraban en la sala.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Ya me lo figuro—indicó el Penitenciario, recostándose en el sillón y riendo expansivamente y con 20 estrépito.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Property, real estate especially, rose in value at once, and justice was administered as it never had been administered before.
— from The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin

In his fierce determination to carry away the star pitchership, especially from Dick Prescott, Ripley employed even Christmas afternoon by going over to Duxbridge and taking another lesson in pitching from the great Everett.
— from The High School Pitcher; or, Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

"How many times," she begged hopelessly, "must I tell you that I am not collecting ridiculous bugs?" Philip raised expressive eyebrows.
— from Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple

This last has ever been surrounded by a sentiment which is perhaps readily enough explained, but its architecture is of that decidedly mixed type which classes it as a mere hybrid thing, and in spite of the splendour of the additions by the houses of the Salamander and the Hedgehog, it is a species which is as indescribable (though more effective) in domestic architecture as is the Tudor of England.
— from The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Le coffre était formé de pierres reliées entre elles aux angles par du ciment.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

La naissance des Poissons rouges, execute en habit de ville; The Birth of Gold Fish; performed in an Evening Dress.
— from The Old and the New Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans