Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Los americanos del Sur no pueden haber adquirido en menos tiempo, mejores costumbres que sus maestros.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I am sure he was sorry for me, for he often patted and encouraged me, talking to me in a pleasant voice.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

BB = Bonner Beiträge zur Anglistik, ed. M. Trautmann.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The coastguard on duty at once made report, and one old fisherman, who for more than half a century has kept watch on weather signs from the East Cliff, foretold in an emphatic manner the coming of a sudden storm.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

The towns are absorbing even more than the natural increment of country population; they are drawing off the middle-aged as well as the young.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It rattled and creaked at every movement; the pail, hanging on behind, chimed in gruffly, and from these sounds alone and from the wretched rags of leather hanging loose about its peeling body one could judge of its decrepit age and readiness to drop to pieces.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If you take a good woman into your house it will be an easy matter to keep her good, and even to make her still better; but if you take a bad one you will find it hard work to mend her, for it is no very easy matter to pass from one extreme to another.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Planted deep, in the town's earliest infancy and childhood, by these two earnest and energetic men, the race has ever since subsisted here; always, too, in respectability; never, so far as I have known, disgraced by a single unworthy member; but seldom or never, on the other hand, after the first two generations, performing any memorable deed, or so much as putting forward a claim to public notice.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A stately ship, at early morn, The hermit's son away had borne.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

If, in the present instance, it was to be particularly regretted that the existing difference of opinion had arisen, every motive to the regret was a motive to calmness, to candor, and the most respectful delicacy towards the other constituted authority.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Published, By the Ministers, and Elders, met together in a Provinciall Assembly , Novemb.
— from A Vindication of the Presbyteriall-Government and Ministry by Ministers and Elders of the London Provinciall Assembly

Uhlhorn said of the Roman Empire in transition: "The most mighty of forces cannot change in a day the customs and institutions of an Empire more than a thousand years old."
— from Among the Burmans: A Record of Fifteen Years of Work and its Fruitage by Henry Park Cochrane

An extraordinary mode, to be sure, of volunteering to go against their will.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

She feared at every moment to see the English issue from their entrenchments to rush at the small number that she at first landed with.
— from The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of Arc by Eugène Sue

At every moment the piles of corpses were rising higher on the battlefield, and his was the responsibility.
— from The Downfall by Émile Zola

The neurotic symptoms were no longer imaginary troubles the nature of which one could not grasp, but were conceived as mental and emotional maladjustments to one’s environment.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

It would have been a difficult task for even an expert marksman to strike that small swaying head.
— from Lost in the Wilds of Brazil by James H. Foster