In another instant the Boreas plunged into what seemed a crooked creek, and the Amaranth’s approaching lights were shut out in a moment.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Cio` che narrate di mio corso scrivo, e serbolo a chiosar con altro testo a donna che sapra`, s'a lei arrivo.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

It was a merry meal, for Papa Jack told his best stories, and Cousin Carl, as they all called Mr. Forbes now, recalled his funniest jokes to make the children forget how near they had come to the parting hour.
— from The Little Colonel's House Party by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Many of the women, it is true, shuddered, and clutched convulsively at the arms of their male companions as Jim's mighty hits went home and the policemen, by turn, bit the dust of the promenading ground, but quite a number watched the combat with bright, marvelling eyes, and lips parted half in admiration and half in horror.
— from Jim Mortimer by R. S. Warren (Robert Stanley Warren) Bell

He introduces Mr. Pocket, George Silverman, and Canon Crisparkle as tutors, and Mrs. General, Miss Lane, and Ruth Pinch as governesses.
— from Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

I’ve seen him myself start and change colour and tremble at the thought and the word of you, when I spoke it not knowin’ who it was I spoke of, but the girl the heart of him was breakin’ for.
— from By Blow and Kiss: The Love Story of a Man with a Bad Name. (Published serially under the title Unstable as Water). by Boyd Cable

It was a boy's room, hung with photographs of school and college crews and teams and groups of intimates, with deep window seats, and draped pennons of Harvard University over the fireplace.
— from The Inside of the Cup — Complete by Winston Churchill

Such a courageous crusade against those abominations and against the gambling dens, by Mr. Comstock—even at the risk of personal violence and in defiance of the most malignant opposition—entitles him to a place among our veritable heroes.
— from Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography by Theodore L. (Theodore Ledyard) Cuyler

They had served as canal commissioners, and their association in the great i. 343 work, then nearing completion, filled him with admiration for the indomitable spirit exhibited by the distinguished canal builder.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

Having embraced the monastic state at Cincillac, called afterwards Tintillant, a place somewhere near Angers, he shone a perfect model of virtue, especially of prayer, watching, universal mortification of the senses, and obedience, living as if in all things he had been without any will of his own, and his soul seemed so perfectly governed by the Spirit of Christ as to live only for him.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler