De pronto se presentaron en la tertulia el juez de primera instancia, la señora del alcalde y el deán de la catedral.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The Kung-po Liao, having slandered Tsze-lu to Chi-sun, Tsze-fu Ching-po informed Confucius of it, saying, 'Our master is certainly being led astray by the Kung-po Liao, but I have still power enough left to cut Liao off, and expose his corpse in the market and in the court.' 2.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

Why did she love everything so tenderly and so passionately, everything living that was not a man?
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Then Hakon proceeded along the coast of Skane, pillaging everywhere, levying taxes and ransome from the country, and killing all vikings, both Danish and Vindish.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

We have considered Shakespeare's plays; English lyrists too of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries shewed deep feeling for Nature, and invested scenery with their own feelings in a very delicate way.
— from The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese

To Kate Meldrum’s eyes, the sunsets were especially grand; for, as soon as the time came for the glorious orb of day to sink to rest in the golden west, a series of light amber-tinted clouds would arrange themselves all round the horizon, as if with a studied pictorial effect, like the stage grouping in what theatrical people term “a set piece;” and then, by degrees, these clouds would become tinged with the loveliest kaleidoscopic colours, all vividly bright—while the far-off heaven that lay between them was of the purest palest rose-hued gold, and the sky immediately above of a faint, ethereal, blueish, transparent green.
— from The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

Hence, it may be said that selenography has taken a new and more promising departure, which, among other results, must lead to a more accurate knowledge of lunar topography, and settle possibly, ere long, the vexed question of change, without any residuum of doubt.
— from The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

If I began like them I should probably end like them, and I feel that I could not be satisfied with that.
— from The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Mary Hunter Austin

Slave prices everywhere, like those of most other investments, were declining in so disquieting a manner that as late as the end of 1794 George Washington advised a friend to convert his slaves into other forms of property, and said on his own account: "Were it not that I am principled against selling negroes, as you would cattle in a market, I would not in twelve months hence be possessed of a single one as a slave.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

It might be some power either like this," he added, shaking the clipping, "or like that which Mr. Jameson suggests."
— from The Treasure-Train by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

The very same principle extended leads to the conviction that the highest wisdom is his who lives for the furthest, which is also the most certain, Future.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren

The Seventh Principle of Creation — v — The Seventh Principle of Creation is SPIRITUALITY. SPIRITUALITY, properly exerted, leads to BLESSING.
— from Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration, Book one by C. J. (Casper James) Coffman