Our travelers stopped in Chicago long enough to see that they could make their fortunes there in two week’s time, but it did not seem worth while; the west was more attractive; the further one went the wider the opportunities opened.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

y los manejan los virtuosos frailes sólo á título de depositarios para devolverlos despues religiosamente con todos sus intereses cuando llegue el día de rendir cuentas!
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

Praecipue valet ad expellendam melancholiam stare in cantibus, ludis, et sonis et habitare cum familiaribus, et praecipue cum puellis jucundis.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And whan that he was slayn in this manere, His lighte goost ful blisfully is went Up to the holownesse of the seventh spere, In convers letinge every element; 1810
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Also Richard Shore, draper, one of the sheriffs 1505, was a great benefactor in his life, and by his testament gave twenty pounds to make a porch at the west end thereof, and was there buried; Richard Hatfield of Steplemorden in Cambridgeshire, lieth entombed there, 1467; Edward Deoly, esquire, 1467.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The British dirigible R34, with Major G. H. Scott in command, left East Fortune, Scotland, on the 2d of July, and arrived at Mineola, New York, on the sixth.
— from The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest by Holland Thompson

"I mind one winter when I 'bached' I tamed and halter-broke two chipmunks so I could lead 'em anywhur.
— from The Dude Wrangler by Caroline Lockhart

Nyström was shaken into consciousness; Levin embraced Charles Nicholas and took the opportunity to pocket three of his cigars.
— from The Red Room by August Strindberg

Note its pyramidal severity, its cunning little ears, its box-built, water-tightal structure.
— from Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy

Do you suppose I could leave England without seeing you again?
— from The Lady of the Basement Flat by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

'Osiris,' said I, 'creates lions, elephants, horses, and Set gives birth to serpents, bats, crocodiles; the monster which I met is surely a creation of Set, and since it exceeds everything known by us under the sun, Set is a mightier god than Osiris.'
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

You then adopt his Excellency’s train of thought upon the subject, so far as to suggest that the possession of Fort Sumter by the United States, ‘if continued long enough, must lead to collision,’ and that ‘an attack upon it would scarcely improve it as property, whatever the result; and if captured, it would no longer be the subject of account.’
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis