“Ah, Count Rostóv!” exclaimed Pierre joyfully.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The Rathor emigrant princes of Kanauj found an asylum with the Parihars.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Clavando en su primo una mirada de amistosa y dulce reprensión, exclamó: —¡Pero qué cosas tienes!
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

quid referam eorum pericula et clades, qui in amicarum aedes per fenestras ingressi stillicidiaque egressi indeque deturbati, sed aut praecipites, membra frangunt, collidunt, aut animam amittunt.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Animi dejectio, perversa rerum existimatio, praeposterum judicium.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

According to this manner of reasoning, every particular nature is artificial, as it operates agreeably to a certain method peculiar to itself; but that universal nature which embraces all things is said by Zeno to be not only artificial, but absolutely the artificer, ever thinking and providing all things useful and proper; and as every particular nature owes its rise and increase to its own proper seed, so universal nature has all her motions voluntary, has affections and desires (by the Greeks called ὁρμὰς ) productive of actions agreeable to them, like us, who have sense and understanding to direct us.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

En las casas modernas, un toldo de lona reemplaza a veces [180] el clásico emparrado, resguardando el patio y las habitaciones del ardor de los rayos solares.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Methinks these new Actæons boast too soon That they have spied on beauty; what if we Have analysed the rainbow, robbed the moon Of her most ancient, chastest mystery, Shall I, the last Endymion, lose all hope Because rude eyes peer at my mistress through a telescope!
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

When he had squared every debt, redeemed every pledge, he would still have jingling in his pockets a princely $43.90.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

For five successive parliaments in Upper Canada, previous to the rebellion, each party had alternately the majority in the house—the one party being known as the Tory or Family Compact; the other as the Radical or the Saddle-bag faction—a name more truthfully than elegantly applied to it, on account of its owing its majority to the exertions of these same Methodist preachers in its favour; and from their mode of travelling through the country being on horseback, with large saddle-bags swung on each side of the nag, and, by way of adding to the picturesque, with a leathern valise strapped on immediately over his tail.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849 by Various

Not only the nominal debt and interest—enormous as the latter was—are to be paid in full; but these holders of the debt are to be paid still further—and perhaps doubly, triply, or quadruply paid—by such tariffs on imports as will enable our home manufacturers to realize enormous prices for their commodities; also by such monopolies in banking as will enable them to keep control of, and thus enslave and plunder, the industry and trade of the great body of the Northern people
— from No Treason, Vol. VI.: The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner

There is no need to give special diagrams-- Figures 3, 4b, 5, and 6 of the fowl will do in all respects, except proportion, for the development of the rabbit.
— from Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

If everything in the world had its spirit, these gods also were the spirits of their own countries and nations; the very notion of deity which the Romans entertained prevented them from having any exclusive belief in their own gods or from denying the right of the gods of others.
— from History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies

"The thing would not have occurred had not the entire crowd happened to congregate around the winners of the skating race," explained Professor Brice to Colonel Colby.
— from The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island; or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box by Edward Stratemeyer

Harrisoniae × L. purpurata) represents each parent almost equally, taking after Catt.
— from The Woodlands Orchids, Described and Illustrated With Stories of Orchid-Collecting by Frederick Boyle

Although Perez had arrived in town only at dusk on the preceding Saturday, and excepting his Sunday evening stroll with Abner, had kept within doors, the tongue of rumor had not only notified pretty much the entire community of his arrival, but had adorned that bare fact with a profuse embroidery of conjecture, as to his recent experiences, present estate, and intentions for the future.
— from The Duke of Stockbridge: A Romance of Shays' Rebellion by Edward Bellamy

ROBERT E. Poisonous plants of the United States.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1966 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office