Isaac Rich, the founder of Boston University, left Cape Cod for Boston to make his way with a capital of only four dollars.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

10 Don Cayetano se puso la palma de la mano ante la boca para bostezar más a gusto, y después entabló una larga conversación con la señora.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

In their Voyage to the West-Indies , these Pyrates took a Portuguese Bark, wherein they got valuable Plunder, but not contented with that alone, they said they would have a little Game with the Men, and so ordered them a Sweat, more for the Brutes Diversion, than the poor Men’s Healths; which Operation is performed after this Manner; they stick up lighted Candles circularly round the Mizon-Mast, between Decks, within which the Patients one at a Time enter; without the Candles, the Pyrates post themselves, as many as can stand, forming another Circle, and armed with Pen-Knives, Tucks, Forks, Compasses, &c. and as he runs round and round, the Musick playing at the same Time, they prick him with those Instuments; this usually lasts for 10 or 12 Minutes, which is as long as the miserable Man can support himself.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Nakalaguk si Silis ug limúkun, Celes caught a dove with laguk .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This latter vessel, though usually lying completely concealed by the sterno-mastoid muscle, is frequently to be seen projecting from under its fore part.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Swallows flitted to and fro uttering little cries, cut the air with the edge of their wings, and swiftly returned to their yellow nests under the tiles of the coping.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

They provoke worldly men into using light conversation concerning sacred subjects.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

To avoid the repetition of the same liquid in successive syllables l is sometimes changed to r : as, caeruleus , sky-blue , for *caeluleus , from caelum ; Parīlia , by the side of Palīlia , from Palēs ; the suffix -clo- appears as -cro- after an l : as, lavācrum , bath , simulācrum , image ( 241 ); the suffix -āli- under like conditions changes to -āri- ; as, molāre , of a mill ( 313 ), but augurāle , of an augur .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The unhappy little creature could not find a word to say.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Napolo ca céntimo Quarter dollar Caloha-an ug lima ca céntimo Half dollar Calim-an ca céntimo One dollar Usa ca pisus One dollar (bulauan)
— from Mga Paquigpulong sa Iningles ug Binisaya by Gregorio de Santiago Vela

The flotilla, under Lieutenant-Commander Cooke, composed of the flag-ships Estrella, Arizona, Clifton , and Calhoun , having completed the ferriage of Emory and Weitzel over Berwick Bay, was now occupied in assisting the army transports to convey Grover to his destination, besides standing ready to protect his movement and his landing with its guns.
— from History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin

Great Britain replied that the right of search rested upon longstanding common consent, and precedent, and that it could not be taken from her against her will by any process instituted by another state.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Swallows flitted to and fro uttering little cries, cut the air with the edge of their wings, and swiftly returned to their [140] yellow nests under the tiles of the coping.
— from Madame Bovary: A Tale of Provincial Life, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gustave Flaubert

Even to { 22} this day, while an English urban landlord can cramp or distort the development of a whole city by withholding land except at fancy prices, English municipalities are without adequate powers of compulsory purchase, and must either pay through the nose or see thousands of their members overcrowded.
— from The Acquisitive Society by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

Fabians, Social Democrats, Clarionettes, Syndicalists, Extremists, Arbitrators, Union leaders, Christian Care Committees—gaily they trip along and take charge of the hapless workers, until the poor fellows or girls are hustled this way and that, driven, coerced, commanded, and counter-commanded till, in desperation, they take refuge, one and all, in the nearest bar.
— from Nights in London by Thomas Burke

In attempting to speculate on the past history of this region it is important to remark that, so far as evidence is available, there is reason to believe that Brazil has undergone less considerable changes of level than most other parts of the earth’s surface.
— from Notes of a naturalist in South America by John Ball