“Yes, so it is, between perfectly upright people.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Bungbúngi ang parul ug papil hapun, Put rice paper on the sides of the lantern.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

preparing the pattern, as in fig. 791 , put up pins at a , b , c , d , e , f , g , h and i and hang on 2 pairs of bobbins to the first pin, and one pair to each of the other 8 = 1 half passing with the 1st and 2nd pair = twist each pair once = take out the pin at point a and put it up again at the same point between the pairs = enclose the pin with 1 half passing = twist the pair once = lay the 1st pair aside = 1 half passing with the 2nd and 3rd pair = twist the pair again = take out the pin at b , put it in again at the same point between the pair = enclose the pin = twist the pairs again = lay the 2nd pair aside = 1 half passing with the 3rd and 4th pair = twist the pair again = take out the needle at c and put it in again at the same point between the pairs
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Possess us, possess us; tell us something of him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A Hundred and Thirty Corpses, of men, nay of women and even children ( for the trembling mother, hastily seized, could not leave her infant ), lie heaped in that Glaciere; putrid, under putridities: the horror of the world.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

It would be so horrible to her to act that she was inclined to suspect the truth and purity of her own scruples; and as she looked around her, the claims of her cousins to being obliged were strengthened by the sight of present upon present that she had received from them.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke A conscious Something to resent the yoke Of unpermitted Pleasure, under pain Of Everlasting Penalties, if broke! LXXIX.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

Here enter not base pinching usurers, Pelf-lickers, everlasting gatherers, Gold-graspers, coin-gripers, gulpers of mists, Niggish deformed sots, who, though your chests Vast sums of money should to you afford, Would ne'ertheless add more unto that hoard, And yet not be content,—you clunchfist dastards, Insatiable fiends, and Pluto's bastards, Greedy devourers, chichy sneakbill rogues, Hell-mastiffs gnaw your bones, you ravenous dogs.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by François Rabelais

As, however, everything was to be provided for, so, in case the secret could not be preserved, it would be necessary for Philip, under pretext of defending himself against the English and French corsairs, to send a large armada to sea, as doubtless the Queen would take the same measure.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586c by John Lothrop Motley

Remember that with the distress which came upon them, at the end of the French war, their spiritual hunger awakened—often in forms diseased enough: but growing healthier, as well as keener, year by year; and that if they are not brutalized once more by their present unexampled prosperity, it will be mainly owing to the spiritual life which was awakened in those sad and terrible years.
— from Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley

By a recent act, no negro must be found beyond his master's premises, under pain of thirty-nine lashes, administered on the bare back.
— from The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers by David Lathrop

But the word of the philosophers doth promise us peace even from these things.
— from The Teaching of Epictetus Being the 'Encheiridion of Epictetus,' with Selections from the 'Dissertations' and 'Fragments' by Epictetus

And albeit we have written this poor scroll with our own hand, and are well assured of the fidelity of our messenger, as him that is many ways bounden to us, yet so it is, that sliddery ways crave wary walking, and that we may not peril upon paper matters which we would gladly impart to you by word of mouth.
— from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

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— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

Jacob Rank was somewhat hilarious that night, having prevailed upon Phil to let him have a bottle of liquor, some of which he shared with one or two of the crew, who were as lively as himself.
— from The Second String by Nat Gould

It was dripping with water, and nearly all the furniture out in the yard piled up pell-mell.
— from The Jamesons by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

The first under Davout, the second under Oudinot, the third under Ney; the fourth was an Army of Observation, under Prince Eugène; the fifth consisted of Poles under Prince Poniatovski; the sixth, in which the Bavarians were included, under Saint-Cyr; the seventh, made up of the troops from Saxony, under Reynier; the eighth, of Westphalians under Vandamme, to be succeeded by Junot; the ninth was given to Victor, the tenth to Macdonald.
— from The Story of Napoleon by Harold Wheeler