It was a very astonishing year altogether, for things seemed to happen in an unusually rapid and delightful manner.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

no hay más que una reunión amistosa, de familia; algunas muchachas del barrio y nada más.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Versarent in animis secum unamquamque rem, agitarent deinde sermonibus atque in medium, quid in quaque re plus minusve esset, conferrent. . . .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

These, with great shafts of horizontal fire thrown among the trees and along the grass as the sun lowers, give effects more and more peculiar, more and more superb, unearthly, rich and dazzling.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And thus the consequence found in one particular, comes to be registred and remembred, as a Universall rule; and discharges our mentall reckoning, of time and place; and delivers us from all labour of the mind, saving the first; and makes that which was found true Here, and Now, to be true in All Times and Places.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Under the said windows, on the façade, there are certain words that are understood rather at discretion than because they are either in good form or rightly written, wherein there is read the [Pg 67] date and in whose time this work was made.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Their feigned ardours and unreal rhetoric are delightful.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

The tranquillity of mind which this seems to give them often puts us to shame for the many times we allow our thoughts and our cares to make us restless and discontented.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

“I don’t wish to make unkind remarks about Donald behind his back, but, when I consented to your marriage, I certainly never expected to see you come to this.
— from The Brute by Frederic Arnold Kummer

Dat leetle Bobby Hargrew was in here and she say it’s jes’ like w’en you-all useter recite at de Sunday night concerts in de Sunday school room.
— from The Girls of Central High on the Stage; Or, The Play That Took The Prize by Gertrude W. Morrison

The farmers, with a continuation of the present prices, will in the mean time be ruined, unless rents are diminished one-third, and, on the poorer soils, extinguished altogether—in which event, again, two-thirds of the proprietors of the kingdom would be ruined.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, Number 414, April, 1850 by Various

PELTIER (as if unexpectedly released and decided, peremptory, brief, confident) Questions!
— from Madame Aubin by Paul Verlaine

I do not think I have at any time held up Lord Blair Leyton as an example to youth, and I am less likely than ever to do so now, now that he has reached an epoch in his life when, like a vessel without a rudder, he drifts to and fro on life's troubled sea, heedless of his course, and perilously near the rocks of utter ruin and destruction.
— from Wild Margaret by Charles Garvice

Paper of any desired colour may be made either by using rags already dyed the necessary colour or by adding to the bleached pulp in the beater such dyes or pigments as will produce it.
— from A Text-book of Paper-making by C. F. (Charles Frederick) Cross

He well knew that it was to Constable alone that his firm had more than once owed its escape from utter ruin and dishonor; and he must also have known, that had a fair straightforward effort been made for that purpose, after the triumphant career of the Waverley series had once commenced, nothing could have been more easy than to bring all the affairs of his "back-stock," etc., to a complete close, by entering (p. 110) into a distinct and candid treaty on that subject, in connection with the future works of the great Novelist, either with Constable or with any other first-rate house in the trade.
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 5 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

He asked his son whether he would like to go to sea, and upon receiving a decided answer in the negative, at once took steps to send him there.
— from At Sunwich Port, Complete by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Thus, he standing up piloting the strange craft, took her over the warm waters, until reaching a deep pool which his pole failed to fathom they came to a rest.
— from The Broken Thread by William Le Queux