'Then we expect you,' retorts the charmer, 'to sustain your reputation, and tell us something else.' 'Lady Tippins, I exhausted myself for life that day, and there is nothing more to be got out of me.' Mortimer parries thus, with a sense upon him that elsewhere it is Eugene and not he who is the jester, and that in these circles where Eugene persists in being speechless, he, Mortimer, is but the double of the friend on whom he has founded himself.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

However, as I was so far from being a tempting morsel, I was allowed to wander about freely, and one day, when all the blacks had gone off upon some expedition leaving only an old man to guard me, I managed to escape from him and plunged into the forest, running faster the more he cried to me to come back, until I had completely distanced him.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Qui ubi subiere, extemplo Latini, tamquam idem adversarii fecissent, triarios suos excitaverunt ; qui aliquamdiu pugna atroci cum et semet ipsi fatigassent et hastas aut praefregissent aut hebetassent , 10 pellerent vi tamen hostem, debellatum iam rati perventumque ad extremam aciem, tum consul triariis ‘Consurgite nunc’ inquit ‘integri adversus fessos, memores patriae parentumque et coniugum ac liberorum, memores consulis pro vestra victoria 15 morte occubantis.’
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Positive Comparative Superlative facilis, -e , easy facilior, -ius facillimus, -a, -um difficilis, -e , hard difficilior, -ius difficillimus, -a, -um similis, -e , like similior, -ius simillimus, -a, -um dissimilis, -e , unlike dissimilior, -ius dissimillimus, -a, -um gracilis, -e , slender gracilior, -ius gracillimus, -a, -um humilis, -e , low humilior, -ius humillimus, -a, -um 308.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

—Veo la huerta toda—indicó.—Allí, bajo aquellos árboles, 20 está una mujer, una chiquilla... una señorita.... —Es la señorita Rosario—repuso Licurgo.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

El concepto de FTPress es realizar medios profesionales especializados cada en un sector económico: la salud, el coche, la imagen digital, los recursos humanos, la logística, etc.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Other persons, again, hold the directly contrary opinion, that any law, judged to be bad, may blamelessly be disobeyed, even though it be not judged to be unjust, but only inexpedient; while others would confine the licence of disobedience to the case of unjust laws: but again, some say, that all laws which are inexpedient are unjust; since every law imposes some restriction on the natural liberty of mankind, which restriction is an injustice, unless legitimated by tending to their good.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

Austin: hoc dixi, ne quis existimet habitare ibimala daemonia ubi Solem et Lunam et
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached to four horses harnessed tandem.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Neither Oxford nor Cambridge nor any University on earth can study English Literature truthfully or worthily, or even at all profitably, unless by studying it in the category for which Heaven, or Nature (call the ultimate cause what you will), intended it; or, to put the assertion more concretely, in any other category than that for which the particular author—be his name Chaucer or Chesterton, Shakespeare or Shaw—designed it; as neither can Oxford nor Cambridge nor any University study English Literature, to understand it, unless by bracing itself to consider a living art.
— from On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

You did not half finish to-night.' Aubrey yawned; and after some speculation about their father's absence, Gertrude went to bed; and Aubrey, calling himself tired, stood up, stretched every limb portentously, and said he should go off too.
— from The Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

In order to explain this theory, let us suppose every living thing to be destroyed in the western hemisphere, both on the land and in the ocean, and permission to be given to man to people this great desert, by transporting into it animals and plants from the eastern hemisphere, a strict prohibition being enforced against introducing two original stocks of the same species.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

He engaged every pair with a pair very clear and steady and undropping, until somehow each lip that had started to twist in amusement straightened, and the twinkle that rose at first glance sobered at second.
— from The Call of the Cumberlands by Charles Neville Buck

Redondo had become a huge, unregulated stock exchange, lots instead of stocks for five days becoming the will-o'-the-wisps of the fated bidders, until the boom collapsed leaving hundreds with lots they had never seen and which, for the time being, they could not sell at any price.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

As the party came up, Samson exchanged looks with his brother, whose lips moved as if he were saying— “Only just you wait, my fine fellow, and I’ll serve you out for this.”
— from Crown and Sceptre: A West Country Story by George Manville Fenn