1633-69 19 Rammes, and slings] Rimes and songs P 22 singers at doores 1633-69 , L74 , Lec , N , TCD: Boyes singing at dore ( or dores) B , Cy , D , H49 , H51 , HN , JC , O'F ( corrected from singers), P , Q (at a dore), S , W: singers at mens dores A25 24 excuse] scuse MSS.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

But perhaps, as Plato would say, 'This is part of another subject' (Tim.); though we may also defend our digression by his example (Theaet.).
— from The Republic by Plato

[ They sing Oedipus as the foundling of their own Theban mountain, Kithairon, and doubtless of divine birth.
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

As to his general propositions, that "there is a deal of difference between impossibilities and great difficulties"; that "a great scheme cannot be carried unless made the business of successive administrations"; that "virtuous and able men are the fittest to serve their country"; all this I look on as no more than so much rubble to fill up the spaces between the regular masonry.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

In thinking of our past thoughts we not only delineate out the objects, of which we were thinking, but also conceive the action of the mind in the meditation, that certain JE-NE-SCAI-QUOI, of which it is impossible to give any definition or description, but which every one sufficiently understands.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

TROLLY, or TROLLY-CARTS , term given by costermongers to a species of narrow cart, which can either be drawn by a donkey, or driven by hand.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

A que no sabe ese señor que los ajos de Orbajosa dejaron bizcos a los señores del Jurado en la Exposición de Londres?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

His mother was a dame of Dardan blood; His sire Crinisus, a Sicilian flood.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

You who fell in a swamp Near Manila, following the flag You were not wounded by the greatness of a dream, Or destroyed by ineffectual work, Or driven to madness by Satanic snags; You were not torn by aching nerves, Nor did you carry great wounds to your old age.
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

After fearing and trembling for nineteen years it was so sweet to give herself up to one day of unalloyed happiness, that Constance promised her daughter not to poison her husband’s pleasure by any doubts or disapproval, but to share his happiness heartily.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Now man is ever a dual creature; he has an outward and an inner nature; he is not only a doer of deeds, but a dreamer of dreams; and to know him, the man of any age, we must search deeper than his history.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

If no conclusion can be arrived at, in a difficulty or difference between two members of the Church, the ward teachers should be called to assist; failing then, appeal may be made to the bishop, then to the high council of the stake, and only after the difficulty has been tried before that body should the matter ever come before the general presiding {201} quorum of the Church.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

To the surprise of Montrevel, who supposed the Camisards finally crushed at Vagnas, the intelligence suddenly reached him of a multitude of attacks on fortified posts, burning of châteaux and churches, captures of convoys, and defeats of detached bodies of Royalists.
— from The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles

The cork-tree, and the small-leaved elm, shew the greatest annual deposit of dry bark.
— from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting by Patrick Matthew

It is really my duty to tell him, and we should always do our duty by our relations, should we not?'
— from The Guinea Stamp: A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. Swan

III., containing “The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.” (Bohn.)
— from The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College, Cambridge A Catalogue and a Commentary by Henry Festing Jones

He is admired by some, by many, and disliked or distrusted by others.
— from Port Argent: A Novel by Arthur Colton

It is true, there is a day of damnation, but this is a day of salvation.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

A report, probably unfounded, was spread that Cromwell granted him his life, but the despatch was waylaid, and detained, or destroyed by the Cavaliers, who bore in remembrance Love's former hostility to the royal cause.—Kennet, 185.]
— from The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Hilaire Belloc