Others shed their leaves at once, and then it is more beautiful still to see the sky strewn with the scattering of their innumerable petals, sulphurous yellow and rosy red.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

not and there is no hunt toward, I purpose, so you may not be come in vain, that you shall see the angel Gabriel, who cometh down from heaven to earth anights, to comfort the Venetian ladies.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Susheṇ of mighty arm, long tried In peril, shall your legions guide.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It seems, though, that "in the second year" it is permissible to wear pink garments in the privacy of your own apartments, and that if people see you in them, accidentally, it is simply their own fault.
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

See, I will place this white planaria on my hand; do you notice that it protrudes something you might perhaps say was its tongue?
— from Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by W. (William) Houghton

'Tis a brilliant assemblage of good qualities embroidered upon too slight a tissue; time wears the flowers away till nothing but the web is left; and if that is poor stuff, you behold a rag at the last.
— from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

55 “Then I present seventy years of my life to David.”
— from Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

I don't mean to say positively that I will follow your advice in this matter, though I partly see your aim; but I will be reasonable, as I always am; and, if I see good cause and good hope, I will go on."
— from Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

He taught in Pittsburg several years, worked on the Mississippi a while, returned later to Washington, and in 1843 constructed a building in which he opened another school.
— from The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Carter Godwin Woodson

This was an announcement made by Wade Sunday afternoon or Sunday evening in that same police assembly room to a gathering of reporters among whom I was present in which he said that he understood that Ruby had been present Friday night, and then Ike Pappas said, “You know that he was present because the three of us were talking.”
— from Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Some men got together before night, with a little powder that hadn't turned into purple sugar yet, and they said they would fire off one cannon, anyway.
— from Christmas Every Day and Other Stories by William Dean Howells

"and to insure perfect secrecy, you must pretend not to know me when we meet abroad.
— from Prince Eugene and His Times by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

"Ez a gineral thing, Olly," he pointed out with cautious generalisation, "ez a gineral thing, in perlite society, young gals don't sit down a-straddle of their chairs, and don't reach down every five minnits to heave away at their boot-straps."
— from Gabriel Conroy by Bret Harte