Seeing near the shanty not one but two persons, she uttered a faint cry and fell back a step.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

También mucho depende de los cambios que la iniciativa de los plantadores introduce en el veredicto comercial; y no sería extraño que el Perú—donde recientemente se han hecho inmensas plantaciones sobre una base científica—viera los mercados del mundo disputándose [7] su cacao.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

= KEY: Use \n.\. SYN: Advantage, custom, habit, practice, service, utility, usage, [See CUSTOM].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The Communists invented an entirely new vocabulary, which the Soviet and other Communist papers still use, with meanings that have the same emotional value (plus-value, or, "that's good !") as in America or Britain, but which have entirely different meanings in concrete practice.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

But Panurge said unto him, Nay, sir, stay a while, and we will search for him amongst the dead, and find out the truth of all.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

She shook her head, and told me she must stop where she was, to watch and listen, and see that no third person surprised us.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

In Germany, during a given period, summed up by Schiller in his famous drama The Robbers , theft and pillage rose up in protest against property and labor, assimilated certain specious and false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and honest masses, unknown even to the imprudent chemists who had prepared the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The body of an owl, [ 496 ] wrapped in red cloth and decorated with various trinkets, was kept constantly suspended from a tall pole set up in front of his tipi, and whenever at night the warning cry sounded from the thicket he was accustomed to leave his place at the fire and go out, returning in a short while with a new revelation.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Wounds beyond telling; my people sick unto death; And where is the counsellor, where is the sword of thought?
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

Here you might through the water see the land Appear, strowed o'er with white or yellow sand; {28} Yon deeper was it, and the wind by whiffs Would make it rise and wash the little cliffs On which, oft pluming, sat unfrighted than The gaggling wild-goose and the snow-white swan, With all those flocks of fowls which to this day, Upon those quiet waters breed and play.
— from Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) by Nicholas Breton

This attempted pleasantry on Miss Chancellor's part, so unexpected, so incongruous, uttered with white lips and cold eyes, struck Ransom to that degree by its oddity that he could not resist exchanging a glance of wonder with Verena, who, if she had had the opportunity, could probably have explained to him the phenomenon.
— from The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) by Henry James

Indeed, he knew every one of them, finding them human people who, in the manner of the Englishman and the hedgehog, had put out their protective spikes upon a first acquaintance.
— from The Young Physician by Francis Brett Young

Is it pretended that the authorities and reasons which oppose the mixed construction of participles, are sufficient to prove such usage altogether inadmissible?
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

In Germany Charles V. had banned the Reformation, and he would gladly have brought all its adherents to the stake; but the princes stood up as a barrier against his tyranny.
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

Four months later a contract was signed in Ottawa by which the Canadian Pacific Syndicate undertook to build and operate the whole road.
— from The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas) Skelton

This partial skill undoubtedly had lured him to the drive.
— from The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

The remainder of the party joined in the cry until the sentinel appeared from around the point staggering under the weight of some heavy load which was carried on his back.
— from A Runaway Brig; Or, An Accidental Cruise by James Otis

He tries to recall the intonation she gave to his name, and certain phrases she used.
— from Juggernaut: A Veiled Record by Dolores Marbourg