(This reminded me that he had constantly seen me in the country; a memory which I had retained, but kept out of sight, because, since I had seen Gilberte again, Swann had become to me pre-eminently her father, and no longer the Combray Swann; as the ideas which, nowadays, I made his name connote were different from the ideas in the system of which it was formerly comprised, which I utilised not at all now when I had occasion to think of him, he had become a new, another person; still I attached him by an artificial thread, secondary and transversal, to our former guest; and as nothing had any longer any value for me save in the extent to which my love might profit by it, it was with a spasm of shame and of regret at not being able to erase them from my memory that I recaptured the years in which, in the eyes of this same Swann who was at this moment before me in the Champs-Elysées, and to whom, fortunately, Gilberte had perhaps not mentioned my name, I had so often, in the evenings, made myself ridiculous by sending to ask Mamma to come upstairs to my room to say good-night to me, while she was drinking coffee with him and my father and my grandparents at the table in the garden.)
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

" Cournet, who probably had not read "Marie Tudor," answered,— "No, a police spy.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

"Nonsense," said Charamaule, "a man walking about in that manner, and dressed after that fashion, is assuredly not a police spy.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

If, on the one hand, it should be observed that the expenses incurred in the prosecution of the ambitious enterprises and vainglorious pursuits of a monarchy are not a proper standard by which to judge of those which might be necessary in a republic, it ought, on the other hand, to be remarked that there should be as great a disproportion between the profusion and extravagance of a wealthy kingdom in its domestic administration, and the frugality and economy which in that particular become the modest simplicity of republican government.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

All their riches, all their honour, their jurisdictions, their Peter's patrimony, their offices, their dispensations, their licences, their indulgences, their long train and attendants (see in how short a compass I have abbreviated all their marketing of religion); in a word, all their perquisites would be forfeited and lost; and in their room would succeed watchings, fastings, tears, prayers, sermons, hard studies, repenting sighs, and a thousand such like severe penalties: nay, what's yet more deplorable, it would then follow, that all their clerks, amanuenses, notaries, advocates, proctors, secretaries, the offices of grooms, ostlers, serving-men, pimps (and somewhat else, which for modesty's sake I shall not mention); in short, all these troops of attendants, which depend on his holiness, would all lose their several employments.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

—The statement of Dio about Nero and Pappæa shown to be parallel with that of Tacitus (Hist.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

answered Honour; “I never mentioned your name at all: I said somebody was not as handsome as my mistress, and to be sure you know that as well as I.”—“Hussy,” replied the lady, “I will make such a saucy trollop as yourself know that I am not a proper subject of your discourse.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

And the criticism is just: the differences affect the whole nature, and are not, as Plato supposes, confined to a single point.
— from The Republic by Plato

C signals to B, "Train out of section," sets indicator at normal, and puts signals at danger.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

A-reysen , v. to raise, to arouse, NED; areysed , pt. s. , S3; areisid , pp. ,
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The superiority of Moses to other prophets is not essential to Judaism, nevertheless it behooves every Jew to believe it, as it is included in the principle of Revelation, and the Bible tells us, "And there arose not a prophet since then in Israel like unto Moses" (Deut.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

Some authors object on theoretical grounds to the statement that porocytes exist in the Demospongia, and it is possible that these cells have in this grade neither the same origin as, nor a precisely similar function to, the porocytes of other sponges.
— from Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

He is a neat and pleasing Speaker, and a most correct and able Writer.
— from The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 1 by United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)

The grounds of his alterations and omissions are usually sufficiently obvious; but these particular omissions are not at present susceptible of any obvious explanation.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Books of Chronicles by W. H. (William Henry) Bennett

"I am not a person," said poppa, "nor is any member of my family, to thrust myself into aristocratic circles in foreign lands; but when an opportunity like this occurs for observing them without prejudice, so to speak, I believe in taking it."
— from A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Sara Jeannette Duncan

What's to hinder your getting away now and pushing South to meet the British Advance-guard?
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

In the Marine News of April 4, 1838, published in New York, the agents of the Sirius advertise her as a “New and Powerful Steamship, 700 tons burden, 320 horse-power.”
— from Ocean Steamships A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliances by A. E. (Albert Edward) Seaton

"Well, I can't say they are; not at present," said Leander.
— from The Tinted Venus: A Farcical Romance by F. Anstey

His brain was not in the least bewildered, but the effervescence gave him a new and pleasurable sensation.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, October 1849 by Various