En los días sucesivos Rey hizo conocimiento con varias personas de la población y visitó el Casino, trabando amistades con algunos individuos de los que pasaban la vida en las salas de aquella corporación.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Bancroft does not, however, approve of Sokoloff's vainglorious expressions concerning "the achievements of Chirikoff, a true Russian, as against Bering the Dane."
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Under the yoke of the Norman conqueror, the Danes and English were oppressed and united; a band of adventurous youths resolved to desert a land of slavery; the sea was open to their escape; and, in their long pilgrimage, they visited every coast that afforded any hope of liberty and revenge.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

From the piazza two rows of the exterior arcades are visible, each containing twelve arches and thirteen columns of travertine.
— from Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna by Robert Burn

When von Eichborn came to and realised what had happened, that he had been brutally knocked down by a civilian, he reached for his revolver.
— from The Old Blood by Frederick Palmer

Her torture is increased by the fact that her traditions make it impossible for her (except under very exceptional circumstances) to allude to the cause of her sufferings.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

But if I stand talking any longer, my invitations will not be written in season, so I must defer our very edifying conversation till another opportunity,"—and, humming a favorite air, the lively girl danced gaily out of the room.
— from Woman As She Should Be; Or, Agnes Wiltshire by Mary E. Herbert

He viewed events calmly through a life-size monocle, was London tailored, Paris shod, and New York manicured; and carried an embossed leather check-book, whose detachable pink slips proved a potent safety factor against undue increment of the St. Ledger exchequer.
— from The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

After the vain efforts ceased to amuse, the propounder explained that the dress was a fish-net.
— from Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales by Henry W. Ward

It was ordered that stocks should be built in each village for this purpose, and that the judges should visit each county twice a year to inquire into the enforcement of the law.
— from An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney