In two years six million dollars was thus distributed to five thousand claimants, and in the end the sum exceeded eight million dollars.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Quelle que soit la qualité des intervenants, un charnier à 10.000 morts dont on connaît les responsables (quand ils sont avérés), est sur le même pied que le dernier battement de cil de la starlette du mois (du jour, de la semaine, pas du siècle et encore moins du millénaire).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

El aljibe suele estar en medio de [169] plantas, que crecen en cuadros
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Valenod was as generous as a thief, and on his side had acquitted himself brilliantly in the last five or six collections for the Brotherhood of St. Joseph, the congregation of the Virgin, the congregation of the Holy Sacrament, etc., etc. M. de Rênal's name had been seen more than once at the bottom of the list of gentlefolk of Verrières, and the surrounding neighbourhood who were adroitly classified in the list of the collecting brethren according to the amount of their offerings.
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal

You've had your wish for him to some extent, Elsa, my dear.
— from Great Uncle Hoot-Toot by Mrs. Molesworth

There was something else, even more difficult to describe, an effect as though for one instant something opened….
— from Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Iudaei ergo (quoniam parasceve erat), ut non remanerent in cruce corpora sabbato (erat enim magnus dies ille sabbati), rogaverunt Pilatum ut frangerentur eorum crura, et tollerentur.
— from The Gospel of St. John by Joseph MacRory

—Shell either extremely much depressed and irregular, or globulo-conical, or more rarely cylindrical and elongated.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

Eventually the passages to America of all the triumvirate were paid, and they thought it discreet to quit the country, cursing their own stingy executive even more deeply than they blasphemed against the Law and execrated me.
— from The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Samuel Murray Hussey

When I promise that neither it nor the fact of its having been disclosed to me, shall ever escape me, directly or indirectly, to any living person, you know that you may depend upon me."
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.