ut locustae non patriae parentes, sed pestes, pessimi homines, majore ex parta superciliosi, contentiosi, &c. licitum latrocinium exercent.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The fire had not then burnt unusually low, nor was the snuff of the candle very long; the candle, however, had been blown out.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

“You cannot now wonder,” continued my master, “that when you rose upon me so unexpectedly last night, I had difficulty in believing you any other than a mere voice and vision, something that would melt to silence and annihilation, as the midnight whisper and mountain echo had melted before.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

I drove home with the intention of paying that triste visite chez mon oncle (when every trinket I have should be at your disposal though they would not fetch a hundred pounds, for some, you know, are with ce cher oncle already), and found Milor there with the Bulgarian old sheep-faced monster, who had come to compliment me upon last night's performances.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Poi disse a me: <un linguaggio nel mondo non s'usa.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

My father's collection was not great, but to make amends, it was curious; and consequently he was some time in making it; he had the great good fortune hewever, to set off well, in getting Bruscambille's prologue upon long noses, almost for nothing—for he gave no more for Bruscambille than three half-crowns; owing indeed to the strong fancy which the stall-man saw my father had for the book the moment he laid his hands upon it.—There are not three Bruscambilles in Christendom—said the stall-man, except what are chain'd up in the libraries of the curious.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Ákung puntirúhan ug luminus ning ákung rilu, I’ll have a luminous dial attached to my watch.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Ug lútù na ang kamúti átung kan-un, If the sweet potatoes are done, let’s eat them.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The sense of his utter loneliness, now that even Défago had gone, came close as he looked about him and listened for the sound of his companion's returning footsteps.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

For so long as man has ample opportunity to take up unoccupied land, “no one,” says Turgot, “would think of entering the service of another;” we may add, “at least for wages, which are not apt to be higher than the earnings of an independent peasant working an 10 unmortgaged and sufficiently large property;” while mortgaging is not possible as long as land is yet free for the working or taking, as free as air and water.
— from The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically by Franz Oppenheimer

Nine years later the council granted a lease of some uncultivated lands near Geneva to 700 of these Waldenses.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

Denny had thwarted him vexatiously—had perhaps even made him ridiculous—on one or two occasions; and Wharton saw no reason whatever for forgiving one's enemies until, like Narvaez, one had "shot them all."
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Geographic coordinates: 35 00 N, 38 00 E Map references: Middle East Area: total: 185,180 sq km land: 184,050 sq km water: 1,130 sq km note: includes 1,295 sq km of Israeli-occupied territory Area - comparative: slightly larger than North Dakota Land boundaries: total: 2,253 km border countries: Iraq 605 km, Israel 76 km, Jordan 375 km, Lebanon 375 km, Turkey 822 km Coastline: 193 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 41 NM territorial sea: 35 NM Climate: mostly desert; hot, dry, sunny summers (June to August) and mild, rainy winters (December to February) along coast; cold weather with snow or sleet periodically hitting Damascus Terrain: primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west Elevation extremes: lowest point: unnamed location near Lake
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Before ten o'clock every seat was filled, and in the steep gallery beauty and fashion were banked up, "like Niobe, all tiers."
— from Phaeton Rogers: A Novel of Boy Life by Rossiter Johnson