[In a clear voice.] At last a deed worth doing!
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

They were victorious at last and divided their conquests equably among their great patrician families.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Es la verdadera aurora , la aurora del día!...
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Mrs. Grant, with a temper to love and be loved, must have gone with some regret from the scenes and people she had been used to; but the same happiness of disposition must in any place, and any society, secure her a great deal to enjoy, and she had again a home to offer Mary; and Mary had had enough of her own friends, enough of vanity, ambition, love, and disappointment in the course of the last half-year, to be in need of the true kindness of her sister's heart, and the rational tranquillity of her ways.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

His brain seemed whirling, and for a moment all grew vague and like a dream.
— from Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

He gave a few directions to his valet about luggage, and drove off to Eaton Square.
— from Dodo: A Detail of the Day. Volumes 1 and 2 by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

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— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

All my felicity vanishes away like a dream, since you, my son, reject all means of rendering yourself capable of governing well after me.
— from The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia by Voltaire

L. valvis aut lævibus aut delicate striatis: è duobus scutis, dextro solùm dente interno umbonali instructo; pedunculi parte superiore fuscâ.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

It may be stated here that as the development of the race continued these simple conceptions of a deity failed to express all religious desires; primitive phallic principles lost their dynamic value, and longings and desires, the result of higher mental development, found expression in new religious usages.
— from The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races: An Interpretation by Sanger Brown

Vice and luxury and despotism triumph.
— from Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire by William Holden Hutton

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His writings were vigorous and logical, and did much to disseminate just conceptions of a republican form of government.
— from A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson