Cuál fué el efecto?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Their pendant, flabby ears extend to the ground, and would impede their feet in walking if they did not support them on their hands.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

So of tents, officers furniture, etc., etc.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It was a lamentable scene, not merely from the single circumstance that they were retreating after having lost all their ships, their great hopes gone, and themselves and the state in peril; but also in leaving the camp there were things most grievous for every eye and heart to contemplate.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

If, then, we were compelled to endure some bitterness on account of it, let it be remembered that it was always directed upon the fact that we insisted on studying our statutes and their commentaries, fearfully excluding every other discipline that might have assisted us, and have imported vitality into our profession.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

He might be fierce enough even to do some violence to himself, but I don't think of that.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Nociva Melancholia furiosos efficit, et quandoque penitus interficit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Giton, however, forgetting everything except his own compassion, thought we ought to open the door and succor Eumolpus, in his peril; but being still angry, I could not restrain my hand; clenching my fist, I rapped his pitying head with my sharp knuckles.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

The fog enshrouds even those who created it in the first place.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

As Dr. Baāhar was too much occupied with his naturalistic pursuits to attend on the day of discovery, he with the other members were held in probationary ignorance of the new race for experimental effects, allied to those to which you have been subject.
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

The dregs of your fortune and the whole of mine gradually melted away—in cards—( he pours out drink ) racing, drink—and a few extra establishments.
— from Lady Huntworth's Experiment: An original comedy in three acts by R. C. (Richard Claude) Carton

It was builded on a plan which foresaw every emergency and from which finally the more permanent scheme for the entire Red Cross was drawn.
— from With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort by Edward Hungerford

There is nothing but chaos in front of a nation unless it insists upon being master in its own house, and forbids either employed or employer to do that which is for the common scathe.
— from The Wanderings of a Spiritualist by Arthur Conan Doyle

For it was a bright day for both these old lovers; Mattie had augured well that one explanation—a few words, true and gentle, that scarcely stood for explanation even—would be sufficient, and disperse all clouds that had hung heavily above them.
— from Mattie:—A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) by F. W. (Frederick William) Robinson

The ladies in winter are frequently entertained either at concerts of musick or assemblies, and make a very good appearance.
— from The Old Furniture Book, with a Sketch of Past Days and Ways by N. Hudson Moore

They only give us reason to suppose that, for each egg, there has existed a hen, which was at some time near the place where the egg in question then was, and which existed at a time near to that at which the egg began to exist.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

This interesting young female welcomed her visitor with a clammy “Come in,” and led the way up stairs, he following, in due dread of being for ever extinguished by an avalanche of unwashed keelers and kettles, which were unsteadily piled up on the landing, and which an incautious touch would have toppled over, and deluged the stairs with unknown sweet-smelling compounds, whose legitimate destination was the sewer.
— from The Witches of New York by Q. K. Philander Doesticks

These steamship and railroad times will do away with that staple idea, both in real and literary romances, of "never meeting again," "parting forever," etc., etc.; and people will now meet over and over again, no matter by what circumstances parted, or to what distance thrown from each other; whence I draw the moral that our conduct in all the quarters of the globe had better be as decent as possible, for there is no such thing nowadays as losing sight of people or places—I mean, for any convenient length of time, for purposes of forgetfulness.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble