Honestly, We must admit but little taste Doth in us or our names appear(26) (I speak not of our poems here), And education runs to waste, Endowing us from out her store With affectation,—nothing more.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

The words were hardly out of his mouth, when deep groans, great lamentations, and doleful shrieks, not of one person, but of many together, were heard from the land.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

On him Dante’s hopes were long set as the man who should ‘save Italy;’ and it seems not out of place to draw attention to what is said of him by John Villani, the contemporary and fellow-townsman of Dante: ‘He was of a magnanimous nature, though, as regarded his family, of poor extraction’ ( Cronica , ix. 1).
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Well, Miss Lyddy, I reckon, believed what he told her, and she's not overfond o' parting with the money herself—she's not a bad woman at bottom, but she's been brought up under his thumb; so she began fidgeting with her purse, and turned as red as her ribbon.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Písus ray nahabilin sa súhul nákù, Only one peso was left from my salary.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She nodded once, one pro to another, and slung her pack.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Cassius, be constant: Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes; For look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Trusting to Mr. B——'s word, and being strangers in the land, we never took the precaution to examine this delightful summer residence before entering upon it, but thought ourselves very fortunate in obtaining a temporary home so near our own property, the distance not exceeding half a mile.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

AMENTIFERAE, or AMENTACEAE, a name which has been used to include in one class several natural orders of plants which bear their flowers in catkins (amenta).
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

It may be that his own narrow escape, to say nothing of our present danger, has rendered him even more cautious than he was before.”
— from Valerius. A Roman Story by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

At one time they found themselves in a dense forest, and, seeing no outlet or passage, were forced to cut their way through, making only forty miles progress in thirty days.
— from Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by William Worthington Fowler

In the mental lull of the after-dinner hour, with harmonious memories murmuring through his mind, and the soft tints and shadowy spaces of the fine old room charming his eyes to indolence, Madame de Chantelle’s discourse seemed not out of place.
— from The Reef by Edith Wharton

The houses of confinement contained nearly the same number of ordinary prisoners, and only 4,058 insurgents of June; 2,909 of the latter had been liberated since the 26th of July, and 1,005 conveyed to Havre between the 28th of August and the 4th of September.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 64 No. 396 October 1848 by Various

I speak not of open peril, but of secret treachery.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Suddenly, they stopped this, and being asked about it, the central office of this organisation issued the following statement, which had been published by several newspapers: "On our part, we do refrain from the further distribution of May's writings and no longer offer these books through our catalogues, but we do not intent to express by this that the contents of May's traveller's tales would be objectionable, and we also to not ask the boards of our organisations to go through the trouble of removing these books from the libraries for that matter.
— from My Life and My Efforts by Karl May

Forming the boundary between Elis with Messenia on one side, and Arcadia with Laconia on the other, it bears the successive names of Olenus, Panachaikus, Pholoê, Erymanthus, Lykæus, Parrhasius, and Taygetus.
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote