The dangerous, powerful and mysterious protector of Rubempre, Jacques Collin, followed her there, lectured her and shaped her future life, making her a Catholic, educating her carefully and finally installing her with Lucien on rue Taitbout, under the surveillance of Jacqueline Collin, Paccard and Prudence Servien.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

replied the Swiss, enchanted that a man like Athos could envy him anything.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Coming to later centuries, we find indications that the Neo-Platonist philosophy may have been influenced by [ 423 ] the Sānkhya system, which flourished in the first centuries of our era, and could easily have become known at Alexandria owing to the lively intercourse between that city and India at the time.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

host- urb- client- Singular TERMINATIONS M. AND F. Nom. caed ēs host is urb s cliēn s 1 -s , -is , or -ēs Gen. caed is host is urb is client is -is Dat. caed ī host ī urb ī client ī -ī Acc. caed em host em urb em client em -em ( -im ) Abl.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The Empire of Blefuscu is an island parted from Lilliput only by a channel eight hundred yards wide.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

He was not a man to whom the expression of admiration came easily: his long sallow face and distrustful eyes seemed always barricaded against the expansive emotions.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

To elude this arbitrary authority, girls very early learn the lessons which they afterwards practise on their husbands; for I have frequently seen a little sharp-faced miss rule a whole family, excepting that now and then mamma's anger will burst out of some accidental cloud— either her hair was ill-dressed,* or she had lost more money at cards, the night before, than she was willing to own to her husband; or some such moral cause of anger.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Did he sip every flower, and change every hour, until Polly his passion requited?—Is her name Polly?’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

There I counted on getting information of any place that such a country girl as I might be fit for, and where I could get into any sort of being, before my little stock should be consumed; and as to a character, Esther had often repeated to me, that I might depend on her managing me one; nor, however affected I was at her leaving me thus, did I entirely cease to rely on her, as I began to think, good-naturedly, that her procedure was all in course, and that is was only my ignorance of life that had made me take it in the light
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

In France, to-day, there are, besides the State, eighty-six departments, thirty-six thousand communes, four church bodies, forty thousand parishes, seven or eight millions of families, millions of agricultural, industrial, and commercial establishments, hundreds of institutions of science and art, thousands of educational and charitable institutions, benevolent and mutual-aid societies, and others for business or for pleasure by tens and hundreds and thousands, in short, innumerable associations of every kind, each with a purpose of its own, and, like a tool or a special organ, carrying out a distinct work.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

His possession of Sardinia and Corcyra enabled him to intercept all that came from the west, while he captured all that came from Africa by his squadrons, which were constantly cruising in that direction.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

He is a glutton and a coward, else he would be an eagle still.
— from Wild Life Near Home by Dallas Lore Sharp

I have always been accustomed to a clear eight hours' sleep, and, as I did not get between the sheets until about four in the morning, I naturally did not awaken until mid-day.
— from The Motor Pirate by G. Sidney Paternoster

Having no opportunity of learning in the West Indies the propriety of being presented at Court ere he could be upon a more intimate footing with the Prince Regent, he was less astonished than delighted at the reception of an invitation on that occasion to Carlton House.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

“It is Isaac Rice, sir, and Colonel Easton has sent me to say that Colonel Allen desires the attendance of Nathan at once.”
— from Corporal 'Lige's Recruit: A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga by James Otis

On such an occasion disobedience and blunder are crimes equally heinous."
— from The Parisians — Volume 11 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Called to Delhi as chief engineer, his bold and ready judgment, his weighty and tenacious counsels, played a foremost part in securing the success of the siege and England's supremacy.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey

345 PART III The Social Aspects of Value 357 -563 DIVISION A—RELATION OF PRIVATE INCOME TO SOCIAL WELFARE 38 Private Property and Inheritance: Impersonal and Personal Shares of Income; The Origin of Private Property; Limitations of the Right of Private Property 359 39 Income and Social Service: Income from Property; Income from Personal Services 370 40 Waste and Luxury: Waste of Wealth; Luxury 381 41 Reaction of Consumption on Production: Reaction upon Material Productive Agents; Reaction upon the Efficiency of the Workers; Effects on the Abiding Welfare of the Consumer 392 42 Distribution of the Social Income: The Nature of Personal Distribution; Methods of Personal Distribution 402 43 Survey of the Theory of Value: Review of the Plan Followed; Relation of Value Theories to Social Reforms; Interrelation of Economic Agents 412 DIVISION B—RELATION OF THE STATE TO INDUSTRY 44 Free Competition and State Action: Competition and Custom; Economic Harmony through Competition; Social Limiting of Competition 422 45 Use, Coinage, and Value of Money: The Precious Metals as Money; The Quantity Theory of Money
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

No one is obliged to discover either a planet, a comet, or a satellite; and whoever makes a mistake in such a case exposes himself justly to the derision of the mass.
— from From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It by Jules Verne