The single slight liberty I have taken with the lyrical passages is in Margaret's song,—"The King of Thule,"—in which, by omitting the alternate feminine rhymes, yet retaining the metre, I was enabled to make the translation strictly literal.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I live, your truth, your reputation, your reward of a life past in sufferings, all that you value is irretrievably lost.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Listen, madame, and recall your remembrances.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

El chipá de los paraguayos es, en realidad, una especie de pan; pero las roscas y rosquetas de maíz son bollos muy agradables en cuya preparación entra la manteca, huevos, leche y azúcar.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Nagrispitar ku sa ímung katungud, I respect your rights.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He dreamed of canals facilitating the transport of the riches of the ground; workings of quarries and mines; machines for every industrial manufacture; railroads; yes, railroads!
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

‘I had one all right,’ you reply cunningly, ‘but must have dropped it somewhere on the road as I came along.’
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

He is rich, young, respected, courted; but happiness is a burthen to him, it seems; so that he must seek trouble for himself and his neighbour.
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

I was on a long straight grass avenue, and a hundred yards ahead ran young Rupert, his curls waving in the fresh breeze.
— from The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

Rejoice, you ruffian crew!
— from The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico by Mayne Reid

But Nadan rode up to me and said, "All that you have done is right, and well performed; the king is greatly pleased with you, and desires that you will send away the soldiers to their homes and come before him alone to receive your reward."
— from Old Testament Legends Being stories out of some of the less-known apocryphal books of the Old Testament by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

“We hadn't said twenty words when he wanted to kiss me.” “Why! was that the reason you ran?” asked Bud, astonished.
— from Bud: A Novel by Neil Munro