Avoir trouvé en dix minutes les informations biographiques et les articles d'un professeur reçu par l'OCDE.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

On first arriving at a new place, he was so apologetic and anxious not to give any trouble; so evidently a person who did not really live in bustling, elbowing London, but in some dreamy mental world of his own, that his good hostess, merely as an experiment and entirely without prejudice, as the legal man puts it, tentatively placed on his bill for the week some trifling item, that, strictly speaking, was merely placed there to be taken off again, if complaint were made, or allowed to stand if overlooked.
— from The Mutable Many: A Novel by Robert Barr

"The bill assumes that a distribution of the proceeds of the public lands is, by existing laws, to be made on the first day of July, 1842, notwithstanding there has been an imposition of duties on imports exceeding twenty per cent. up to that day, and directs it to be made on the 1st of August next.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

Acquainted with the toil of a printer's life, impelled by earnest love of real progress, and guided by a sound, practical judgment, he was peculiarly well fitted for the difficult province of directing the labors of an enthusiastic inventor.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Before dropping their fawns, the does pass on for an undetermined distance to the northward of that portion of the upper Kazan River lying immediately below Ennadai Lake.
— from The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper

lībra (dimin. libella ), a balance ; libr-o (lībrāt-), I balance : equi-librium, level (Fr.), libration, deliberate.
— from The Alberta Public School Speller Authorized by the Minister of Education for Alberta by Anonymous

When I thy parts run o'er, I can't espy In any one the least indecency; But every line and limb diffused thence A fair and unfamiliar excellence: So that the more I look the more I prove There's still more cause why I the more should love.
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick

If holidays were not a time Beyond a chap's control, When someone else prescribes how I'm To bore my selfish soul; If bags and boxes packed themselves For one who packing loathes; If babes, expensive little elves, Were only born with clothes If Bradshaw drove me to the train!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 by Various

They begin here, with the first, at my left hand; and they grow shorter, and shorter, and shorter, as they get nearer to my right, till the last is but eight little lines.
— from The Dead Secret: A Novel by Wilkie Collins

While Madame de Fleury listened in breathless expectation, Lurline opened the door and announced, "The dress of madame has arrived!"
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie