En 1999, como miembro del jurado del Premio del libro insular (Prix du livre insulaire), hizo escala en Ouessant y, en septiembre, dio la vuelta en velero a la Isla de Cerdeña.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

At last he took up the corpse and carried it to the house of two dancing girls who lived in the village, and laid it down inside.
— from Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas

Quick and Cahoonshee trimmed up a grape vine and lowered it down to Drake.
— from Hawk's Nest; or, The Last of the Cahoonshees. A Tale of the Delaware Valley and Historical Romance of 1690. by James M. (James Martin) Allerton

And twice this singular thing might have happened, with this time an enthroned sovereign on the banks of the James instead of on the shore of a Brazilian bay, if a certain king's son and king-to-be had been of a somewhat more venturing and less indolent disposition.
— from The Ifs of History by Joseph Edgar Chamberlin

The last brilliant, dazzling beams of the dying day had lifted from the crest of the huge dome that shut the valley, and left it dark and sombre; and 'Tonio's eyes, turning upon it for the last time, seemed to note the change; and the flitting spirit, wandering back to the old, old boyish days, and the legends of his people, spoke once more.
— from Tonio, Son of the Sierras: A Story of the Apache War by Charles King