For my part, I am of this mind, and if a man could by any means avoid it, though by creeping under a calf’s skin, I am one that should not be ashamed of the shift; all I aim at is, to pass my time at my ease, and the recreations that will most contribute to it, I take hold of, as little glorious and exemplary as you will: “Praetulerim . . .
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I take hold of, as little glorious and exemplary as you will I understand my men even by their silence and smiles
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The face was pale and looked grave and exhausted, but there was no expression of spite in it.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Masters residing there think Advantages taken on their Necessities, no more than a just and lawful Gain; and either bind such for the next Summer’s Service, or sell their Provisions out to them at extravagant Rates; Bread from 15s.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

He writes about La Gioconda, and early French poets and the Italian Renaissance.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

With this agrees very well the possibility of such a command as: Love God above everything, and thy neighbour as thyself.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

[12] tan comunes ... como , as common ... as ; so ... as . V ARIANT : ¿Abundan los grandes almacenes en la América latina tanto como aquí?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Perhaps he--unlike Henry Adams--had at last got an education, and all he wanted.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

overnor Bellingham , in a loose gown and easy cap,—such as elderly gentlemen loved to endue themselves with, in their domestic privacy,—walked foremost, and appeared to be showing off his estate, and expatiating on his projected improvements.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Penny and Louise glanced at each other.
— from The Secret Pact by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

New Brunswick received, without question, a constitution on the Nova Scotia model, with a Lieutenant Governor, an Executive Council appointed to advise him, which served also as the upper house of the legislature, and an elective Assembly.
— from The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor by Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas) Skelton

PROGRESSION.—There is no progression of good to evil, but a progression of good to a greater and less good, and evil to a greater and less evil, 444 .
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

He drew aside this curtain and within lay a little girl about eleven years old 40 with thin wasted cheeks and hollow sunken eyes.
— from The Child of the Moat: A Story for Girls. 1557 A.D. by I. B. (Ian Bernard) Stoughton Holborn

She’s a lovely girl, and everything that’s nice, and good, and that kind of thing, but—not at all the kind of girl he ought to marry.”
— from Flaming June by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Others proceeded on lines of investigation in ascertaining the best materials to be employed in glass-making in producing the clearest and most permanent uncoloured light; the best coloured lights for desired purposes; glasses having the best effects on the growth of plants; and the best class for refracting, [Pg 473] dispersing and transmitting both natural lights and those great modern artificial lights, gas and electricity.
— from Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

She made a little grimace at Esther.
— from The Phantom Lover by Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred) Ayres

It is remarkable that the same legislature which passed the 500,000 acre land grab also enacted one of the first and most stringent acts for railroad regulation.
— from Minnesota, the North Star State by William Watts Folwell

Some captives trapped stray dogs, some ate lizards, grasshoppers and even earthworms.
— from Blood Brothers: A Medic's Sketch Book by Eugene C. Jacobs

We was under the tents looking at a little Giraffe; a elephant come up behind me and touched me with its snout.
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration