NUL BIEN SANS PEINES Un charretier, qui passait devant un homme au pilori, demanda ce que disait l'écriteau attaché au-dessus de sa tête.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Il n'y a point de chemin trop long à qui marche 25 lentement et sans se presser, il n'y a point d'avantages trop éloignés à qui s'y prépare par la patience —No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

“On Vendors and Purchasers.” Dutch concert , where each performer plays a different tune.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Crest: A woolpack charged with a ram couchant all proper, ducally crowned azure.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Whilst Caius Julius, the physician, was anointing the eyes of a patient, death closed his own;
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

This sketch is adapted from a story by a poor Danish cobbler's son, another whose name did not keep him from becoming famous,—Hans Christian Ander sen .
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

By the latter part of April the work was in a partially defensible condition, and the 7th infantry, Major Jacob Brown commanding, was marched in to garrison it, with some few pieces of artillery.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

But, though this general desire of happiness operates constantly and invariably, yet the satisfaction of any particular desire CAN BE SUSPENDED from determining the will to any subservient action, till we have maturely examined whether the particular apparent good which we then desire makes a part of our real happiness, or be consistent or inconsistent with it.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

which Clearly proves that those nation at Some Period not more that a century or two past the Same nation—Those Dar ca ter's or Scioux inhabit or rove over the Countrey on the Red river of Lake Winipeck, St. Peter's & the West of the Missippie above Prarie De chain heads of River Demoin, and the Missouri and its waters on the N. Side for a great extent.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

[At Prairie du Chien] Articles of a treaty made and concluded by William Clark, Superintendent of Indian Affairs and Willoughby Morgan, Col. of the United States 1st Regt. Infantry, Commissioners on behalf of the United States on the one part, and the undersigned Deputations of the Confederated Tribes of the Sacs and Foxes; the Medawah-Kanton, Wahpacoota, Wahpeton and Sissetong Bands or Tribes of Sioux; the Omahas, Ioways, Ottoes and Missourias on the other part.
— from The Iowa by Foster, Thomas, of Washington, D.C.

The king’s advocate, Peter de Cugnieres, supported the rights of the civil power by arguments, not always of the best description, though much less wretched than those made by the prelates to perpetuate the abuse of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
— from The Project Gutenberg Collection of Works by Freethinkers With Linked On-line and Off-line Indexes to 157 Volumes by 90 Authors; Plus Indexes to 15 other Author's Multi-Volume Sets. by Various

ðwēores cross, transverse, bent, crooked : adverse : angry : perverse, depraved , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

[Pg 21] and having posted his battalions in the garden of the Tuileries and Place du Carousel, he awaited the attack.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

Education expenditures: NA Government Tuvalu Country name: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Tuvalu local long form: none local short form: Tuvalu former: Ellice Islands note: "Tuvalu" means "group of eight," referring to the country's eight traditionally inhabited islands Government type: constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy Capital: name: Funafuti geographic coordinates: 8 30 S, 179 12 E time difference: UTC+12 (17 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) note: administrative offices are located in Vaiaku Village on Fongafale Islet Administrative divisions: none Independence: 1 October 1978 (from UK) National holiday: Independence Day, 1 October (1978)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Any one which passes through, or attacks, the alimentary canal is quite capable of it, and probably does cause its share of the attacks.
— from Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson

The Prince and Princess de Condé also found themselves compelled to declare against Coligny—doubly in the wrong, both because he had been the challenger and been unfortunate in the result.
— from Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883