We remained cooped up eight days and nights with that curious crew.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

He died in 1870, over his unfinished Edwin Drood , and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with an inhalation as imperious as though he had had a pinch of the great Frederick’s snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant apostrophe full in the baker’s face:— “Keksekça?” Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation of Gavroche’s to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a word which they [our readers] utter every day, and which takes the place of the phrase: “Qu’est-ce que c’est que cela?”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Ya sé lo que es la oración, una suplica grave y reflexiva, tan personal que no se aviene con fórmulas aprendidas de memoria; una expansión del alma que se atreve a extenderse hasta buscar su origen; lo contrario 207 del remordimiento, que es una contradicción de la misma alma, envolviéndose y ocultándose con la ridicula pretensión de que nadie la vea.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Whereunto is added the Life of Lucian gathered out of his own Writings, with briefe Notes and Illustrations upon each Dialogue and Booke, by T. H. Master of Arts, of Christ Church in Oxford.
— from Lucian's True History by of Samosata Lucian

This is an age of unusual economic development, and Mr. Washington's programme naturally takes an economic cast, becoming a gospel of Work and Money to such an extent as apparently almost completely to overshadow the higher aims of life.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Caballuco hizo sus urbanidades con una expresión de altanería y superioridad que revelaba cuando menos la conciencia de un gran valer o de una alta posición en la comarca.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, [692] and under every deep a lower deep opens.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Huyendo del 10 bullicio, dió con su cuerpo en una estancia destinada a tertulia, en la cual a la sazón no había alma viviente, y con indolencia se sentó junto a la ventana de ella, mirando a la calle.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Bau u. Entwicklung d. Arthropoden.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

As the notice of departure within twenty-four hours was pasted up every day afresh, it held our enthusiasm for sight-seeing at a feverish pitch.
— from A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee

His heated fancy conjured up every device and charm of sacredness and adoring rapture about that white veiled shape, until her march to the altar assumed the character of a religious procession—a sight to awe mankind!
— from Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete by George Meredith

The Odysseys that pass us every day, and we none the wiser!
— from The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath

"I am past amazement at the worst thing the best of us ever does, and contrariwise of course.
— from Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

I got it first of all in a work called, Hochste wichtige Erinnerungen zur rechten Zeit uber einige der allerernsthaftesten Angelegenheiten dieses Zeitalters, von L. A. Hoffmann , Vienna, 1795
— from Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe carried on in the secret meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and reading societies. by John Robison

“Untersuchungen über Bau u. Entwicklung d. Arthropoden IX.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

We've had umpteen extra drills and parades and kit inspections.
— from Combed Out by F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Voigt

Bau u. Entwicklung d. Arthropoden.”
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

“She cert’n’y does,” said Herrick, and after making some unique excuse disappeared also.
— from Virginia of Virginia: A Story by Amélie Rives