—The President very quietly rode down to the capitol in his own carriage, by himself, on a sharp trot, about noon, either because he wish'd to be on hand to sign bills, or to get rid of marching in line with the absurd procession, the muslin temple of liberty and pasteboard monitor.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Era la primera vez que me pegaba un hombre, fuera de mi padre!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Es sin duda un viejo proyecto, pero finalmente es la primera vez que tenemos los medios de ponerlo en práctica.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

This extraction takes place very quickly, especially when the coffee is ground fine.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Aquel pierde venta que no tiene que venda —He 15 who has nothing to sell loses his market.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

A quien tiene buena muger, ningun mal le puede venir, que no sea de sufrir —To him who has a good wife no evil can come which he cannot bear.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Le service informatique pense déjà à une numérisation partielle du fonds documentaire, mais bon, le problème ici c'est que les idées vont nettement plus vite que les moyens.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

La próxima vez que vaya al establo me llevo a mi mujer.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

"I have asked her to be my wife," said Sir Philip, very quietly, "and I hope that she will not refuse to hear me say that, at least."
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

He speaks with contempt of the hermit Peter, vir quidam, Epist.
— 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

libros et maxime veterum ferabatur cupidite las vestere posse vero quemlibet nostrum per quaternos facilius quam per pecuniam adipisa favorem.
— from Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by F. Somner (Frederick Somner) Merryweather

Thus, by means of producing vast quantities of throwaway wrapping paper and packing boxes, and its idiotic newspapers, magazines, and leaflets, by becoming drunk on its own extravagance and convenience, the city is cutting its own throat; it is carrying on activities that contribute to the reduction of its all-important oxygen.
— from Down with the Cities! by Tadashi Nakashima

But these were, for the most part, verbal quips and quibbles.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Poet in the above passage, is supposed to have had an eye to Juno’s address to Æolus in the first book of the Æneid: Gens inimica mihi Tyrrhenum navigat æquor Ilium in Italiam portans, Victos que Penates .
— from The Rolliad, in Two Parts Probationary Odes for the Laureatship & Political Eclogues by Joseph Richardson

ex his nati, eorum habentur liberi a quibus primum virgines quæque ductæ sunt."
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

Tarboe handed over a brandy flask, after taking a pull himself, and then sitting down on one of the kegs, he said: “It is as you see, and now Angel Point very quick.
— from A Romany of the Snows, Complete Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre by Gilbert Parker

Em verdade naõ sey que he isto que anda Entre nós, ou se he ár como parece, Ou fogo d’outra sorte, et d’outra ley, Em que ando, de que vivo: et nunca abranda, Por ventura que á vista resplandece.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

Moisture added to the temperature relation will hasten the rapidity of the decomposition as can be noticed in [172] those localities with a high temperature but moist climate that the decomposition takes place very quickly.
— from Anatomy and Embalming A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to this Subject by Albert John Nunnamaker