Glass lamp globes that have been handed down from father to son are cleaned, the copper ornaments polished, the kerosene lamps taken out of the red wrappings which have protected them from the flies and mosquitoes during the year and which have made them unserviceable; the prismatic glass pendants shake to and fro, they clink together harmoniously in song, and even seem to take part in the fiesta as they flash back and break up the rays of light, reflecting them on the white walls in all the colors of the rainbow.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Tiang-nya nama Raja Mĕndela Temberang-nya nama Perak bĕlĕpeh Dayong-nya nama Jari Lipan Anak dayong dua kali tujoh Tĕpi bernama Pagar tenggalong Kĕmudi bernama Lĕbah bergantong Dandan bernama Sawa mengampei, Ula-ula 45 menumbok kurong, Gada-gada bermain angin, Pĕmĕpah berkibat-kibatan, Mari-lah Inche, mari-lah Tuan, Sedang elok edarkan lanchang Jĕrbatu 46 bongkar-lah sauh Jĕrtinggi juak-lah layer, Jĕrmudi putar kemudi Anak dayong paut-lah dayong, Kamana Lanchang beredar-edar?
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

XV Oukoun chrê thaumazein, ei pantelôs oligon ek tês koilias, hoson an akribôs ê kateirgasmenon, eis tas artêrias paragignetai phthanousas plêrousthai tôn kouphoterôn, all' ekeino gignôskein, hôs dy' eston holkês eidê, to men tê pros to kenoumenon akolouthia, to d' oikeiotêti poiotêtos gignomenon; heterôs men gar eis tas physas ho aêr, heterôs
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

There the local flora was represented by a wide carpet of samphire, a small umbelliferous plant that keeps quite nicely, which also boasts the names glasswort, saxifrage, and sea fennel.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Now Vindeig’s purchase was recorded May twenty-second; but as he seems to have gone direct from Jefferson Prairie to Koshkonong, he evidently had built his cottage and shelter for the family before he started for Milwaukee.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

on Pāṇini, the Kāçikā Vṛitti or “Benares Commentary,” by Jayāditya and Vāmana (2nd ed.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

This, in turn, as I understand it, provoked the King of Abyssinia to destroy the Italian army and fall back upon Johannesburg; this at the instigation of Rhodes, to bull the stock market.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

kai men ge kai ei sphaleiês pote tou kairou kai mêden mêpô katô parerchoito pettomenôn eti kata tên gastera tôn sitiôn, oud' houtôs akarpos hê anatomê soi genêsetai; theasê gar ep' autôn, hoper oligô prosthen elegomen, akribôs men memykota ton pylôron, hapasan de tên gastera periestalmenên tois sitiois tropon homoiotaton, hoionper kai hai mêtrai tois kyoumenois.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

As the tumults and disorders increased, the officers and their partisans became harassed, and begged the governor to give an order to the people to keep the peace and not revolt; and if necessary to fix a penalty for disobedience to this order.
— from The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555) by Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century

The unfortunate householder, for example, who is persuaded to keep walking in the conservatory “pour rétablir la circulation,” and the other who describes himself “sous-chef de bureau dans l’enregistrement,” and he who proposes to “faire hommage” of a doubtful turbot to the neighbouring “employé de l’octroi”—these and all their like speak commonplaces so usual as to lose in their own country the perfection of their dulness.
— from The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays by Alice Meynell

The mayor and burgesses of Nottingham, October 20th, petitioned the king in which they declared that "the first object of our desires and wishes is the return of peace and cordial union with our American fellow-subjects," and humbly requested him to "suspend those hostilities, which, we fear, can have no other than a fatal issue."
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

"Well," said Mrs. Whipple, doubtfully, "I suppose you know best, but for my part I would much prefer to keep them safe home with me, for some years to come."
— from The Dogs of Boytown by Walter A. (Walter Alden) Dyer

He returned to his seat, and helped himself to snuff out of the enamelled gold box, on which Merton deemed it politic to keep a watchful eye.
— from The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang

They take the "hearsay" of legend and ancient gossip; but Spiritualists claim to have living witnesses; witnesses that can talk, make music; that can take to themselves bodies and shake hands with the people they knew before they passed to the "other shore."
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

"Ah! I am permitted to know the most perfect happiness!"
— from Sans-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Paul de Kock

"Then walk back along the road a little way while I prepare these kidnappers for a safe journey," said he, sneering down upon the prisoners.
— from Dreamy Hollow: A Long Island Romance by Sumner Charles Britton