[149] In the second place, it is a hazardous enterprise for a merchant or a manufacturer to purchase with a foreign credit material for which, when he has imported it or manufactured it, he will receive mark currency of a quite uncertain and possibly unrealizable value.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Between the brother and sister he remained in this posture, quite unresisting and passive, until Mr Swiveller returned, with a police constable at his heels.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Agues have their hot and cold fits; from the effects of an ardent passion we fall again to shivering; as much as I had advanced, so much I retired:— Qualis ubi alterno procurrens gurgite pontus, Nunc ruit ad terras, scopulosque superjacit undam Spumeus, extremamque sinu perfundit arenam; Nunc rapidus retro, atque stu revoluta resorbens Saxa, fugit, littusque vado labente relihquit.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Ah! se me olvidaba—añadió, volviendo a entrar después de algunos segundos de ausencia.—Si quiere usted algo para el señor juez municipal....
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

“On account of the famous Luigi Vampa.” “Pray, who may this famous Luigi Vampa be?” inquired Albert; “he may be very famous at Rome, but I can assure you he is quite unknown at Paris.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

ia et graviora quidem, ut arbitror, patienti animo Siculi tolerassent, nisi (quod primum cunctis dominantibus cavendum est) alienas fminas invasissent, (l. i. c. 2, p. 924.)]
— 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

Well, sir, they were in the middle of the service, and all the blackguards making the responses in due season, when, just as Tom was quivering under a portentous grunt, which might have shamed the principal diapason of Harlaem, and the subs were drawing out a resplendent 'A-a-a-men,' the door opened, and in walked a smart-looking gentleman, with rather a large nose and quick eye, which latter glanced round the office, where a sudden endeavour was made by everybody to get back to his place.
— from Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life by Samuel Lover

We conclude therefore that in so far as the Data of Ethics is an attempt to explain purposed actions and their ethical quality upon a philosophical method of the kind propounded by Mr. Spencer, namely, as included in a proper understanding of the cosmical process, and of the histories of the universe consequent upon a knowledge of the relations of its original factors—so far Mr. Spencer's work must be considered a failure.
— from On Mr. Spencer's Data of Ethics by Malcolm (Writer on Herbert Spencer) Guthrie

That Youth and Beauty shou’d be quite undone, A Pox upon the Whore of Babylon.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn

What makes the discovery epochal is the fact that it dropped a brand-new idea into the medical ranks—an idea destined, in the long-run, to prove itself a veritable bomb—the idea, namely, that a minute and quite unsuspected animal parasite may be the cause of a well-known, widely prevalent, and important human disease.
— from A History of Science — Volume 4 by Edward Huntington Williams

"What would you with me, sir?" demanded the knight, not exactly understanding his object, though quite ready to quarrel upon any provocation that might occur.
— from Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

For he thought that subtle hair-splitting on those subjects was quite useless; as Plato also records in the Euthydemus.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

She and I talked quite unconstrainedly and pleasantly together, and I saw none of those Argus-glances which the Professor had spoken about.
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

But though the cattle sometimes fell, they were as quickly up and pushed blindly ahead, neither knowing nor caring where they were going, their only instinct being to get away.
— from The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger