A breeze was blowing noisily from the west, and disheveled by the wind, long billows made the submersible roll very noticeably.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Hic litterarum quidam studio deditus, 20 Simondis qui saepe versus legerat Eratque absentis admirator maximus, Sermone ab ipso cognitum cupidissime Ad se recepit; veste, nummis, familia Hominem exornavit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

“Don’t be uneasy on that score,” replied Villefort; “no ceremony will be neglected in my house.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke's Reports that pleased me very much, though I do not know from whence he has taken it: " Interdum fucata falsitas (says he), in multis est probabilior, at sæpe rationibus vincit nudam veritatem ."
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

“Really!” said Rogojin vaguely, not taking in what the prince meant by his rather obscure remarks.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This morning I put on my best black cloth suit, trimmed with scarlett ribbon, very neat, with my cloake lined with velvett, and a new beaver, which altogether is very noble, with my black silk knit canons I bought a month ago.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It was the tone she always heeded, but she cowered down in her seat, repeating vehemently: “No, no, no!”
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Naylor, Michael, Co. C, 165 Granger St., Rutland, Vt. Nye, Capt. Chester F., Pawnee City, Neb. O'Brien, Thomas, Co. D, 20 Hayward St., Burlington, Vt. Oliver, Charles, Co. H, 43 Milk St., Fitchburg, Mass. Ormsby, Corp. A. S.,
— from Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864 by Lemuel Abijah Abbott

—Stems red, vigorous, nearly 10 ft. high.
— from The Subtropical Garden; or, beauty of form in the flower garden. by W. (William) Robinson

He 's really very nice, I imagine—although, of course, I don't know him very well," said Berri.
— from The Diary of a Freshman by Charles Macomb Flandrau

The variety in dress, scene and physiognomy is so remarkable; varying, no doubt, according to the tastes of the garzone responsible for finishing it.
— from Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of

Beginning of the Slave Traffic Increase in Numbers When, over two hundred and eighty years ago (it is in doubt whether the correct date is 1619 or 1620) a few wretched negroes, some say fourteen, some say twenty, were bartered for provisions by the crew of a Dutch man-of-war, then lying off the Virginia coast, it would have seemed incredible that in 1900 the negro population of the Southern States alone should reach very nearly eight million souls.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris