And then where shall an outlet be found for this abundant wealth of great impressions accumulated during such an extended period and representing Jewish history for every Jewish family, this wealth of passions, virtues, resolutions, resignations, struggles, and conquests of all kinds—where can it find an outlet but in great intellectual men and works!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

DUBLIN PACKET, to turn a corner; to “take the DUBLIN PACKET ,” viz., run round the corner.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their religious duty to intercept them.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Gritos, cerramientos estrepitosos de puertas, vidrios rotos, repliegues de las jugadoras a un rincón, y protestas de los dueños de la casa,—tal era el comienzo de la lucha.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"Where," he asked, "shall the accumulated wealth of great impressions which forms the history of every Jewish family—that great wealth of passions, virtues, resolutions, resignations, struggles and victories of all sorts—where shall it find an outlet, if not in great intellectual functioning?"
— from The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

DETAIL FROM “PARNASSUS,” RAPHAEL STANZE, PALAZZO VATICANO, ROME Raphael Sanzio
— from Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting

There was one in the Government of National Defence, and three or four others, chosen from among the most rabid ones, were members of the Committee on Barricades; for, improbable as the thing may seem today, this commission existed and performed its duties, a commission according to all rules, with an organized office, a large china inkstand, stamped paper, verbal reports read and voted upon at the beginning of each meeting; and, around a table covered with green cloth, these professional instigators of the Cafe de Seville, these teachers of insurrection, generously gave the country the benefit of the practical experience that they had acquired in practising with the game of dominoes.
— from A Romance of Youth — Volume 4 by François Coppée

This gave great dudgeon to the rebels in the press-yard, who soon proved very refractory, refusing to be Page 146 [146] locked up at the proper time.
— from Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 1 From the twelfth to the eighteenth century by Arthur Griffiths

On the 25th of June, Governor Reynolds, and General Joseph Duncan with 1600 mounted militiamen, principally volunteers, reached Rock river.
— from Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk by Benjamin Drake

There are other electrons which perform very rapid revolutions around all classes of atoms, but I shall introduce these friends later on.
— from The Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion by Charles R. (Charles Robert) Gibson

By P. V. Ramaswami Raju .
— from Rhymes for the Young Folk by William Allingham