9 26 unas : R. 641; K. 344, b ; C. 179, 3. 9 29 Guardia civil : 'the Civil Guard,' a select body of Spanish police, armed and disciplined like soldiers, whose particular business is guarding highways and railroads.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

And after that, when swimming in the [99] Alpheus, he was pricked by a reed, and the injury proved fatal, and he died.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

And the truth is this: An instant after the old man was pitched bleeding out of the window, I ran into the attic, and found his daughter swooning on the floor with a red dagger still in her hand.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Tibullus was a Roman eques , and was probably born at Pedum, a Latin town just at the foot of the Apennines, and a few miles north of Praeneste, where his father possessed an ample estate.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Next morning Roberta woke Phyllis by pulling her hair gently, but quite enough for her purpose. “Wassermarrer?” asked Phyllis, still almost wholly asleep.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

There were a dozen requests for autographs—he knew them at sight; there were professional begging letters; and there were letters from cranks, ranging from the man with a working model of perpetual motion, and the man who demonstrated that the surface of the earth was the inside of a hollow sphere, to the man seeking financial aid to purchase the Peninsula of Lower California for the purpose of communist colonization.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

The time between the wolf and dogs— I cannot tell on what pretence— But lo!
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Now, as it shortly turned out, what made this incident of the Rachel’s the more melancholy, was the circumstance, that not only was one of the Captain’s sons among the number of the missing boat’s crew; but among the number of the other boat’s crews, at the same time, but on the other hand, separated from the ship during the dark vicissitudes of the chase, there had been still another son; as that for a time, the wretched father was plunged to the bottom of the cruellest perplexity; which was only solved for him by his chief mate’s instinctively adopting the ordinary procedure of a whale-ship in such emergencies, that is, when placed between jeopardized but divided boats, always to pick up the majority first.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

and I fell upon my knees at his feet, I embraced him, I begged his forgiveness, and I assured him that I was ready to set out—’” Ibarra’s growing agitation caused her to suspend the reading, for he had grown pale and was pacing back and forth.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

When the excesses of the revolutionary Gallus ended in his death at the hands of Constantius, Julian, an awkward and retiring student, was summoned to the court at Milan, where he was protected by the Empress Eusebia from the suspicions of Constantius and the intrigues of hostile courtiers.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

[152] —is the whole people; but they are entitled Servant only in order to show how unfit they are for the task to which they have been designated, and what a paradox their title is beside their real character.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2) by George Adam Smith

This little band opened their new chapel, situated on St. Helen Street and completed at the cost of £935-0-1 of which £572-10-9 were paid before its opening, leaving a debt of £362-9-4 due to two of their own members, John Fry and Ebenezer Muir, in equal parts of £181-4-8 each.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

“It will probably be a black night: I am decking myself with blue ribbons, like a May-day garland.
— from Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters by Horace Walpole

The original manuscript, it is alleged, was preserved by the secretary of the convention till the year 1800, when it was destroyed, with his dwelling-house, by fire.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

I don't care the devil had the M'Mahons; but I am bound to this ninnyhammer of a landlord, who has got me promoted, and who promises, besides, to get an appointment for you.
— from The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

Some of our readers will perhaps be surprised to learn that men of the polished-stone epoch were in the habit of fishing with nets; but it is a fact that cannot be called into question, for the very conclusive reason, that the remains of these nets have been found.
— from Primitive Man by Louis Figuier

And no sooner were they gone than the other side of the incident was put before me very pungently by Sarita, who asked with a very sharp and searching glance— "How comes the young King to be so friendly with you, Ferdinand, and apparently under so great an obligation?"
— from Sarita, the Carlist by Arthur W. Marchmont

"A glass of wine, perhaps by your brother's bedside, and the thing would be accomplished.
— from The Master Detective: Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Percy James Brebner

He was a tall, bilious-looking man, with pale blue eyes and a thin-lipped sinister mouth, not at all prepossessing in appearance, although immaculate in dress.
— from The Mystery Queen by Fergus Hume

Of course he would rather that it had been any vessel afloat except the Espagne haunted by the ghost of what was probably by now a dead submarine.
— from The Boy Grew Older by Heywood Broun