Quise contar las descargas para saber, un momento antes de morir, que se acababa mi existencia en este mundo....
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

We are dealing with a strong and magnificently equipped enemy, whose avowed aim is our complete destruction.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

And it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the crime committed against Little Gervais, etc., etc.; it is such a man, caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a wall that had been scaled, still holding in his hand the object stolen, who denies the crime, the theft, the climbing the wall; denies everything; denies even his own identity!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Women and children shrieked, and men encouraged each other with noisy shouts and cheers.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

It is the red fox that abounds in Japan, and its human-like cry at night near human habitations is such as might easily encourage these superstitions.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The next day, and the day after, they jogged lazily along talking over the adventures they had met since their separation, and mightily enjoying each other’s narratives.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

[65] minus quam philosophis, haud scio an magis etiam et magnificentia et despicientia adhibenda est
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

[5202] Si fleatam aspicias, ne mox fallare, caveto; Sin arridebit, magis effuge; et oscula si fors Ferre volet, fugito; sunt oscula noxia, in ipsis Suntque venena labris &c. Take heed of Cupid's tears, if cautious.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

At six A. M., earth Eastern time, which we were still carrying, Snap Dean
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 by Various

'Los que hasta ahora se sabe, aver morado estas Estendidas, y Ampliadisimas Tierras, y Regiones, de la Nueva España, fueron vnas Gentes mui crecidas de Cuerpo, que llamaron despues otros, Qainametin.' Torquemada , Monarq. Ind. , tom. i., p. 34.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

The earlier Epistles of St. Paul, as those to the Thessalonians, Galatians, Corinthians, and Romans, are acknowledged on all hands, even by advanced German Rationalists, to be the genuine works of the Apostle Paul; indeed one might as well deny that such a man ever existed as question their authenticity.
— from The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself by M. F. (Michael Ferrebee) Sadler

One day I watched a rook pursuing a swift and making every effort to overtake and strike it.
— from Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies

'It continues,' he says, 'to shine with an endurance which in its apparent weakness is a mystery; it protracts its existence so long ... that the observer who had lain down in his bed so easy-minded, becomes sad and melancholy,' etc. etc. etc.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

From her mother, Lady Mary Dudley, this admirable woman inherited a noble and congenial spirit; from her father, Sir Henry Sidney, surpassing abilities, moral excellencies, enlarged views, generous motives.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 3 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

In whatever state a man experiences either of them, that state may be called disease; and excessive pains and pleasures are justly to be regarded as the greatest diseases to which the soul is liable.
— from Timaeus by Plato

What with singing and playing on the piano and violin, we spent a most enjoyable evening, and did not retire to rest until the small hours.
— from Two Years Among the Savages of New Guinea. With Introductory Notes on North Queensland. by W. D. Pitcairn