They wore travelling spectacles and carried sunshades; and behind them came a coach attended by four or five persons on horseback and two muleteers on foot.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Not so ardently!” cried Shelestov with tears of laughter.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Yet it was no great thing for the demons, in order to deceive them, to show to a cow when she was conceiving and pregnant the image of such a bull, which she alone could see, and by it attract the breeding passion of the mother, so that it might appear in a bodily shape in her young, just as Jacob so managed with the spotted rods that the sheep and goats were born spotted.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He thought things over, and, as he did so, a certain spice of reason appeared in his reflections.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

[see above, Colonel Smith], and the one viâ Sárdú.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And there within, sir, are the golden mines, Great Solomon’s Ophir!—— B. Jonson The supper at Col. Sellers’s was not sumptuous, in the beginning, but it improved on acquaintance.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

I think a special angel stands before him with a shield;" and Christie smiled as she spoke.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

"This is General Noury's birthday, sir, and Captain Sharp is taking proper notice of it," replied Mr. Bland, as he took from his pocket a note, and delivered it to Captain Ringgold.
— from Across India; Or, Live Boys in the Far East by Oliver Optic

"'There was but one who did not join in the enthusiastic applause, and that was the Landgrave, who had become very grave and thoughtful during Ofterdingen's singing, and could scarce find a word of praise for the marvellous song.
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

That Historian in his Account of the Persian Customs and Religion tells us, It is their Opinion that no Man ever killed his Father, or that it is possible such a Crime should be in Nature; but that if any thing like it should ever happen, they conclude that the reputed Son must have been Illegitimate, Supposititious, or begotten in Adultery.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

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— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[Footnote: For an enumeration of the various facts contained in Park's Travels, which are relied on as favourable to the cause of the Abolition, accompanied by the proper references, see A concise statement of the question regarding the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
— from The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 Together with Other Documents, Official and Private, Relating to the Same Mission, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park by Mungo Park

He found her laid out as if she were a corpse, surrounded with lighted tapers, with a great crucifix by her side, but not even this availed, and the sacrilegious amours continued so long that the news reached the ever-open ears of the Holy Office.
— from The Year after the Armada, and Other Historical Studies by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

She could feel her body swell and tighten under the bands and drawstrings of her clothes, as she struggled and choked, straining against the immense clamp of his arms.
— from Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair

But oh, it’s useless speighkin’, Aw connut ston her pride; An’
— from Lancashire Songs by Edwin Waugh