On the other side of the temple is a monstrous seven-ton rock, eleven feet long, seven feet wide and three feet thick.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Occidit ille risus et formae lepos, Ille nitor, illa gratia, et verus decor, Illae aemulantes purpuram, et
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Gregory bald, high peak of the Great Smoky range, eastward from Little Tennessee river, on the boundary between Swain county, North Carolina and Blount county, Tennessee.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The function which science has to perform in the curriculum is that which it has performed for the race: emancipation from local and temporary incidents of experience, and the opening of intellectual vistas unobscured by the accidents of personal habit and predilection.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

El círculo de nuestra gira comenzada en Guayaquil se cierra recorriendo en ferrocarril las trescientas millas que separan a Quito de aquel punto.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Then Kumbhakarṇa's anger woke, And wroth at Rávaṇ's words he spoke: “O Monarch, when thy ravished eyes First looked upon thy lovely prize, Then was the time to bid us scan Each peril and mature a plan.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

“As you please,” he said; “death is always death,—that is forgetfulness, repose, exclusion from life, and therefore from grief.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Il avait reçu de fort bons melons, d'apparence succulente, et achevait un copieux repas en faisant largement honneur à ces délicieuses cucurbitacées.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

'Now come we to those points which are within our command, and have force and operation upon the mind, to affect the will and appetite , and to alter manners: wherein they ought to have handled CUSTOM, EXERCISE, HABIT, EDUCATION, EXAMPLE, IMITATION, EMULATION, COMPANY, FRIENDS, PRAISE, REPROOF, EXHORTATION, FAME, LAWS, BOOKS, STUDIES: these, as they have determinate use in moralities, from these the mind SUFFERETH; and of these are such receipts and regiments compounded and described, as may serve to recover or preserve the health and good estate of the mind, as far as pertaineth to human medicine; of which number we will insist upon some one or two, as an example of the rest , because it were too long to prosecute all .'
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

Rome luy donna la naissance; Elle vint rétablir en France La gloire des anciens Romains.
— from Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse

They had no great men in their ranks, either for learning, or talents, or wealth, or social position.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

The scandal was revived, everyone felt less pity for Adelaide, who was certainly the disgrace of the suburb; she was reproached more wrathfully for that door, that tacit, brutal admission of her union, than even for her two illegitimate children.
— from The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola

The first gallery, or what we call the “dress circle,” is reserved exclusively for ladies, and no gentlemen are admitted.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

Given as medicines, digestion (which is a species of rapid evolution from lower to higher forms of energy) develops such vital inherences within them as prove their apparent impersonality to contain a principle continuous not only with living processes, but with the highest mentality.
— from Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

Another English workman, Master Thomas of Leghton, made the screen of wrought-iron which protects this monument, round which run the words— "Ici Gost Alinor, jadis Reine de Engleterre Femme Al Rey Edward, Fiz le Rey Henri E Fille Al Rey de Espagne, Contesse de Puntiff Del Alme de li Dieu pur sa pitié eyt merci.
— from The Story of Westminster Abbey by Violet Brooke-Hunt

During the hours of recreation the Deane, whose duty it was to keep the Sisters in order, was continually rebuking her for some transgression of rules, either for laughing or talking too much, or addressing a Sister in a voice which the rest could not hear; and she had to undergo in consequence all sorts of penalties.
— from Clara Maynard; Or, The True and the False: A Tale of the Times by William Henry Giles Kingston