Since I had no proper social position and no decent clothes, at the rehearsals I held aloof from the rest in the shadows of the wings and maintained a shy silence.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I say pain, and not death: for no animal can know what it is to die; the knowledge of death and its terrors being one of the first acquisitions made by man in departing from an animal state.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The poet confesses, that he is not supported by the truth of history, and can only allege, que celui qui fait la guerre a sa patrie au nom de Dieu, est capable de tout, (Oeuvres de Voltaire, tom. xv.
— 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

Cyrus Harding, Gideon Spilett, Pencroft, and Neb drew back, so as to see if anything appeared at the windows.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

—No lo digo sólo por eso, sino porque estos garrapatos no 05 se parecen a ninguno de los que he visto hacer a gente cristiana.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Footnote 1: In 1842 thus: ­ "Look to't, Consider: take a month to think, and give An answer to my wish; or by the Lord That made me, you shall pack, and nevermore Darken my doors again."
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

let have 'em; but Hose he's such a good boy, and so peaceable, and never does no meanness, and allus minds you, and knows his books, and gits up in time of a morning, I felt like I ought to prosper him if I could.
— from Mothering on Perilous by Lucy S. Furman

His sacred persons are not different from his pagans and goddesses.
— from The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps

With his watch on the table before him, and employing the scale rule and dividers, the young submarine skipper placed a new dot on the chart.
— from The Submarine Boys and the Spies Dodging the Sharks of the Deep by Victor G. Durham

In the geographical notes Leonardo frequently speaks of the East, and though such passages afford no direct proof of his having been there, they show beyond a doubt that, next to the Nile, the Euphrates, the Tigris and the Taurus mountains had a special interest in his eyes.
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo

Besides the Cod. Sinaiticus, the beautiful Psalter purchased by the National Library from the Didot sale at Paris has four columns (Mr. J. Rendel Harris), and besides the Cod. Vaticanus, the Vatican Dio Cassius, the Milan fragment of Genesis, two copies of the Samaritan Pentateuch at Nablous described by Tischendorf (Cod. Frid.-Aug.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

What is certain is that, either because with this woman everything is the result of calculation, without any effort to elevate her mind to a higher sphere, or, it may be, because she blends in perfect harmony the prose of daily life with the poetry of her illusions, there is nothing discernible in her out of tone with her surroundings, although she possesses a natural distinction of manner that elevates her above and separates her from them all.
— from Pepita Ximenez by Juan Valera

If window glass is of the old, wavy, off-color sort, full of the bubbles, sand pits, and creases that characterized its production in early days, make sure that such panes are not discarded.
— from If You're Going to Live in the Country by Thomas H. (Thomas Hamilton) Ormsbee