Land is to be acquired in the provinces of Taurida and Kherson almost for nothing, provided that one undertakes subsequently to colonise it; so to Kherson I will ‘transfer’ them, and long may they live there!
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

He grew as red as a beet, and he would cough it up, stamping, twisting, choking, beating the air with his hands.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Should we, any of us, survive the coming summer?
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

O, weak, and selfish, and unworthy spirit, that could dream of an earthly union and earthly happiness as possible, after such deep love had been so bitterly wronged as was Beatrice's love by Giovanni's blighting words!
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The creature understood, seized the cord, glided rapidly down the beach, and disappeared in the darkness without the convicts’ attention having been in the least excited.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Mamayábas ning batáa ug sugúun, This child plays around when he is told to do s.t. -an n place where guava trees abound.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

'I can't get up,' said the child, 'because my back's bad, and my legs are queer.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

With propellants exhausted, the upper stages then coasted to 480 kilometers (300 miles) above the surface of the Earth where the solid-propellant third-stage motor fired to place the satellite into orbit.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

In the United States the contrary takes place; and although the decision of the Senate is judicial in its form, since the Senators are obliged to comply with the practices and formalities of a court of justice; although it is judicial in respect to the motives on which it is founded, since the Senate is in general obliged to take an offence at common law as the basis of its sentence; nevertheless the object of the proceeding is purely administrative.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

“Umph!” said the Corporal—“yes, your honour,” renewed he after a pause.
— from Eugene Aram — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Philip, in the outset, was made to sustain towards his undutiful subjects the characters of the brooding hen and the prodigal's father; a range of impersonation hardly to be allowed him, even by the most abject flattery.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

COMMERCE CLEARING HOUSE, INC. SEE U. S. Tax Cases.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1968 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Mississippi Missouri Michigan New York State New York City New Jersey New Hampshire North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia Wisconsin New Brunswick Nova Scotia Canada East (Quebec) Canada West Total United States Total Canada 12 1 3 5 1 5 15 415 298 179 1 21 7 2 21 5 6 8 32 194 88 3 212 1 9 179 192 2 5 21 1 30 303 15 19 7 434 2,277 475 The concentration of this market and its considerable distance from New York City at a time when transportation conditions were still relatively primitive must have created many problems in distribution.
— from History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills by Robert B. Shaw

407 78 Right innominate bone, A, of a full-grown Terrier; B, of a Collie Puppy 410 79 Left leg bones of a Dog ( Canis familiaris ) 411 80 A, Right manus; B, Right pes of a Dog ( Canis familiaris ) 413 81 Skull of a young Indian Rhinoceros ( R. unicornis ) showing the change of the dentition 421 82 Palatal aspect of the cranium and mandible of a Donkey ( Equus asinus ) 431 83 Skull of Procavia (Dendrohyrax) dorsalis 433 84 Carnassial or sectorial teeth of Carnivora 436 85 Mandible of Isabelline Bear ( Ursus isabellinus )
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

He has contented himself, thus far, with the excuses I have given him; but the Duke of Mantua is so violently alarmed at the peril in which he believes himself to be, and at the length of the negociation, that he has absolutely determined upon sending the Count Matthioli to the King—and I have not dared to oppose 153 myself to this, from the fear of giving him suspicions, or of disgusting him with the negociation altogether.
— from The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask Extracted from Documents in the French Archives by Dover, George Agar Ellis, Baron

On his back he strapped a knapsack containing a full stock of underwear, soap, towels, comb, brush, looking-glass, tooth-brush, paper and envelopes, pens, ink, pencils, blacking, photographs, smoking and chewing tobacco, pipes, twine string, and cotton strips for wounds and other emergencies, needles and thread, buttons, knife, fork, and spoon, and many other things as each man's idea of what he was to encounter varied.
— from Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Carlton McCarthy

I knew that I was in the presence of a desperate man, that a quiver of my lip might be the signal for him to plunge a weapon into my heart; but I betrayed more self-command than I should have given myself credit for under such trying circumstances.
— from The Gully of Bluemansdyke, and Other stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

[Pg 121] 'It is unconstitutional,' said the Constable; 'but it's better than getting a punch on the snout.'
— from The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay

His objections to the latter were distinctly founded on the limits of the franchise which the settlement of 1832 had not sufficiently extended, but ... if they had universal suffrage they came to a new constitution—a constitution commonly called the ‘Sovereignty of the People,’ but that is not the Constitution of England; for, wisely modified as that monarchy may be, the Constitution of England is the sovereignty of Queen Victoria.”
— from Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas by Walter Sichel