La fonction des juristes est de donner raison aux puissances du jour: hier guillotine pour les faiseuses d'anges, aujourd'hui remboursement des avortements par la Sécu (sécurité sociale, ndlr) (en France, pas en Pologne).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

She reached down and picked up the shoes, and after shaking the dust out of them handed them to Dorothy.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Raymond des Agiles, p. 144.
— 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

It was caused by the arrival of the Representatives Doutre and Pelletier.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The commentators explain this proverbial expression by saying that a she-goat is in any case a hazardous mount, and a fortiori when ridden down a precipice; but this seems a somewhat "sporting" kind of interpretation.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

And what I say, I'll stick to; but I'll quarrel wi' no man." "No," said the farrier, with bitter sarcasm, looking at the company generally; "and p'rhaps you aren't pig-headed; and p'rhaps you didn't say the cow was a red Durham; and p'rhaps you didn't say she'd got a star on her brow—stick to that, now you're at it.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Absolutely confined to it are eleven of the seventeen existing genera of Lemurs, the family Centetidae among the Insectivora, which contains seven genera, and another recently discovered and peculiar genus, Geogale ; it has six peculiar genera of Viverridae; it has five peculiar genera of Rodents.
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

The precepts respecting diet are practical and useful; and great care has been taken to give such directions for the management of infants and children, as, it is hoped, will render the work of much utility to the nursery.
— from Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 1 (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell

She caught up the child, and then, thinking that if they saw its clothes they would search for it, she opened the drawers, seized them all, and ran down and put them and the child into the kitchen cupboard, as her mistress had told her, then ran back to her bedroom and began to dress.
— from No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Mortimer, on reaching his room, draws a paper from his bosom; he weeps over it, reads it again and again; then he holds it in the flame of a candle.
— from Daisy's Necklace, and What Came of It by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

If he were happy in it and it suited him, reasons disproving any part of it would pass by him harmlessly.
— from The Hearts of Men by H. (Harold) Fielding

At low water I went up to the mast-head and took a view of the shoals, which made a very threatening appearance: I could see several at a remote distance, and part of many of them was above water.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

I knelt right down——” “And prayed!” gasped Flossie.
— from The Girl from Sunset Ranch; Or, Alone in a Great City by Amy Bell Marlowe

[20] `at the rate of ( á razon de ) a pound a day, and if they wanted more to get it for themselves.'
— from A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

Successful military leaders were able to perpetuate a royal dynasty and perhaps fasten a race of hereditary incapables on a nation, to be maintained in royal splendor.
— from The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch