The professor now spoke politely, and even deferentially, and he looked apologetic and repentant; but I could not recognise his civility at a word, nor meet his contrition with crude, premature oblivion.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

The ease with which, by Page 116 {116} the employment of these conditions, a new coat can be based upon an old one which shall leave three original charges in the same position, and upon a field of the original tincture, and yet shall produce an entirely different and distinct coat of arms, has led to this particular form being constantly repeated in modern grants.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

This last fortnight has been so peaceful, and even Davy has been almost well-behaved.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Y ahora se peina a estilo de Madrid.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Such unwholesome food, assisted by the heat of the climate and season, soon produced an epidemical disease, which swept away five hundred soldiers.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

To which of them so important a preference shall be given, must be determined by some general rule, founded not upon the doubtful distinctions of personal merit, but upon some plain and evident difference which can admit of no dispute.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

[3871] ———subitus miserae color ossa reliquit, Excussi manibus radii, revolutaque pensa: Evolat infelix et foemineo ululatu Scissa comam——— Another would needs run upon the sword's point after Euryalus' departure, [3872]
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Nápoles, rico vergel Naples, a rich love-garden de amor, del placer emporio, an empire of pleasure, and so vio en mi segundo cartel: it saw my second proclamation: Aquí está don Juan Tenorio, ‘Here’s Don Juan Tenorio
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

The adaption of means to ends in nature clearly indicates a ——, and so proves a ——er. DESPAIR ( page 129 ).
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

By placing six pebbles at equal distances, they intimated that Massachusetts Bay was occupied by six tribes, and governed by as many chiefs.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Samuel de Champlain

LEROY G. WARREN, An Alumnus of Oberlin College, and member of the Theological Department; taken prisoner of war at Cross Lanes, and spent nine months in the hands of the rebels at Richmond, New Orleans, and Salisbury; paroled and exchanged; discharged, July 22, 1862; now married, and a minister of the Gospel.
— from The history of Company C, Seventh Regiment, O.V.I by Theodore Wilder

The converts who were so promising and enthusiastic declined in zeal and fell back under the spell of worldliness.
— from Our Lady Saint Mary by J. G. H. (Joseph Gayle Hurd) Barry

If, in the progress of my acquaintance with Mrs. Benington, I should perceive any extraordinary danger in the gift, cannot I refuse, or at least delay to comply with any new conditions from Ludloe?
— from Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (A Fragment) by Charles Brockden Brown

Cuoco introduced Vico's work to Degérando, then at work on his Histoire comparée des systèmes philosophiques ; another exile, De Angelis, put the Scienza Nuova into the hands of Jules Michelet; Salfi mentioned Vico in articles in the Revue Encyclopédique and in books and minor works in French.
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

This was all his substance, pittance and enjoyment during a whole month, since on the brink of his joy always came the said husband, and he always arrived wisely between a point-blank refusal and those little sweet caresses with which women always season their refusals—little things which reanimate love and render it all the stronger.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac