And if I had then to hasten after my grandfather, to proceed on my way, I would still seek to recover my sense of them by closing my eyes; I would concentrate upon recalling exactly the line of the roof, the colour of the stone, which, without my being able to understand why, had seemed to me to be teeming, ready to open, to yield up to me the secret treasure of which they were themselves no more than the outer coverings.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

La señora terminó su frase con una risa exagerada que se hacía más chocante por el profundo silencio de los que la oían.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Nothing but consciousness can unite remote existences into the same person: the identity of substance will not do it; for whatever substance there is, however framed, without consciousness there is no person: and a carcass may be a person, as well as any sort of substance be so, without consciousness.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

There are one hundred and sixty catacombs under Rome, each with its maze of narrow passages crossing and recrossing each other and each passage walled to the top with scooped graves its entire length.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

[ Contents ] Chapter XV The Sacristans The thunder resounded, roar following close upon roar, each preceded’ by a blinding flash of zigzag lightning, so that it might have been said that God was writing his name in fire and that the eternal arch of heaven was trembling with fear.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Majorum enim hæc erat consuetudo, ut Rex esset etiam Sacerdos, et Pontifex: unde hodieque Imperatores Pontifices dicamus.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Si on voit les sociétés de médias tenter de bloquer tout ce qu'elles peuvent, je ne trouve pas surprenant que certains usagers réagissent en mettant en ligne tout ce qu'ils peuvent.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The president of his class at Columbia University recently earned the money to pay for his course by selling agricultural implements.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Wellington and Blucher were acting in a complete unison rare even when two different corps of the same nation are concerned, but practically unexampled in the case of two armies of different nations.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 14 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

7. A body of soldiers came up Royal Exchange Lane, crying, "Where are the cowards?"
— from McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

I'm gwine ter ax her," continued Uncle Remus, "en if she ain't sont dat wud, den I'm gwine ter fetch myse'f back.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

Paradiso: Canto XX Quando colui che tutto 'l mondo alluma de l'emisperio nostro si` discende, che 'l giorno d'ogne parte si consuma, lo ciel, che sol di lui prima s'accende, subitamente si rifa` parvente per molte luci, in che una risplende; e questo atto del ciel mi venne a mente, come 'l segno del mondo e de' suoi duci nel benedetto rostro fu tacente; pero` che tutte quelle vive luci, vie piu` lucendo, cominciaron canti da mia memoria labili e caduci.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

She was only glad that Belle's curiosity, usually robust enough concerning ranch happenings, was now under more engrossing pressure.
— from Laramie Holds the Range by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

÷ cloth or ÷Ðcloth, the cover for an ~ in a Christian church, usually richly embroidered.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

But yet in the end, by the meanes of Noble Friends and Kindred on either side, labouring to have such discontentment appeased, endangering warre betweene the Kingdomes: after a limited time of banishment, Chynon returned joyfully with his Iphigenia home to Cyprus , and Lysimachus with his beloved Cassandra unto Rhodes , each living in their severall Countries, with much felicity.
— from The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

The depreciation which the idea of liberty has certainly undergone renders every hope permissible.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1 by Émile Zola

"But I could understand readily enough that you were in trouble, and I knew that Charlie's cousin wouldn't appeal to me unless there was a good reason.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at the Seashore; Or, Bessie King's Happiness by Jane L. Stewart