Yet I could not but perceive that she was at times unhappy and dissatisfied with herself or her position, and truly I myself was not quite contented with the latter: this assumption of brotherly nonchalance was very hard to sustain, and I often felt myself a most confounded hypocrite with it all; I saw too, or rather I felt, that, in spite of herself, ‘I was not indifferent to her,’ as the novel heroes modestly express it, and while I thankfully enjoyed my present good fortune, I could not fail to wish and hope for something better in future; but, of course, I kept such dreams entirely to myself.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Cuál es la situación de esa industria con respecto a la de la lana?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

If he did not come, the painful sensation became most intense; if, on the contrary, he appeared, his noble countenance, his brilliant eyes, his amiability, his polite attention even towards Madame Danglars, soon dispelled every impression of fear.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Take of whole Barley, the roots of Smallage, Fennel, and Sparagus, of each two ounces, Succory, Dandelyon, Endive, smooth Sow-thistles, of each two handfuls, Lettuce, Liverwort, Fumitory, tops of Hops, of each one handful, Maiden-hair, white and black, Cetrachs, Liquorice, winter Cherries, Dodder, of each six drams, to boil these take sixteen pounds of spring water, strain the liquor, and boil in it six pounds of white sugar, adding towards the end six ounces of Rhubarb, six drams of Spikenard, bound up in a thin slack rag the which crush often in boiling, and so make it into a Syrup according to art.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

" "Celia," said Dorothea, entreatingly, "you distress me.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

LOS HUEVOS Más allá de las islas Filipinas Hay una que ni sé cómo se llama, Ni me importa saberlo, donde es fama Que jamás hubo casta de gallinas, Hasta que allá un viajero Llevó por accidente un gallinero.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

She on her side did everything that she thought apt to inflame him, and Filippo, in accordance with the instructions he had of Bruno, made believe to talk with Buffalmacco and the others and to have no heed of this, whilst taking the utmost diversion in Calandrino's fashions.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

A TUTOR FOR HIS SON Ā prīmīs annīs quidem Iūlia ipsa fīlium suum docuerat, et Pūblius nōn sōlum 1 pūrē et
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

So Hermes the shepherd and Leto's glorious son kept stubbornly disputing each article of their quarrel:
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

He submits detailed estimates.
— from The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

{xiv} There is great appearance that this Lady intended to revise both her Memoirs and her will, and that death prevented her: she used to write, by starts, detached essays, without any coherence; and these on separate bits of paper.
— from Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (vol. 1 of 2) by Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de

Let us see, Don Emile," pursued the Pincheyra, in a conciliatory tone.
— from The Flying Horseman by Gustave Aimard

Notwithstanding this salutary regulation, I have witnessed serious disturbances, ending, on more than one occasion, in bloodshed, between these traders and the bazaar shopkeepers of Singapore.
— from Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by G. F. Davidson

[37] “Mess of great meat,” i.e. from one of the staple dishes, excluding such special dishes as would naturally be reserved for the King or his guests.
— from Chaucer and His England by G. G. (George Gordon) Coulton

Later, when the revolt had spread to Yorkshire, he wrote: “You must cause such dreadful execution upon a good number of the inhabitants, hanging them on trees, quartering them, and setting their heads and quarters in every town, as shall be a fearful warning.”
— from Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals by Alfred Marks

You won’t be asked for it till just before Sports Day either, so you will have plenty of time to find it.”
— from The Gold Bat by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse