Quedaba el recurso de dar libertad a su comprimido encono por medio de la palabra manifestada decorosamente y sin faltarse a sí mismo; pero aun le pareció 103 prematuro este postrer recurso, que no debía emplear, según su juicio, hasta el instante de salir definitivamente de aquella casa y de Orbajosa.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Disse allora Rustico: Figliuola mia benedetta sia tu: andiamo dunque, e rimettiamlovi sí, che egli poscia mi lasci stare.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Heat-induction motors were still considered efficient prime movers.
— from Invasion by Murray Leinster

If these were hidden away, he himself, in his yogi coloured shawl, could easily pass muster; especially if he retreated to the least-frequented part of the steps, where they ended in a ruined wall, split by the pipal tree-roots.
— from Voices in the Night by Flora Annie Webster Steel

N. M. Brigham, Frederick R. Burton, Henry G. Chapin, Sumner Coolidge, Edward P. Mason, Marshall H. Cushing, Wendell P. Davis, Morris Earle, Percival J. Eaton, Gustavus Tuckerman, Charles S. Hamlin, Jared S.
— from The Standard Cantatas: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers A Handbook by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

The strangest and ugliest old crockery, pictured over with monstrosities,—the Palissy ware, embossed with vegetables, fishes, lobsters, that look absolutely real; the delicate Sevres china, each piece made inestimable by pictures from a master's hand;—in short, it is a despair and misery to see so much that is curious and beautiful, and to feel that far the greater portion of it will slip out of the memory, and be as if we had never seen it.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In such cases each party made its camping circle, but without pitching the tents according to the gentes; all consanguinities and affinities tried to get together.
— from Omaha sociology (1884 N 03 / 1881-1882 (pages 205-370)) by James Owen Dorsey