CHAPTER XX ToC ENGAGEMENTS Courtship So long as Romance exists and Lochinvar remains young manhood's ideal, love at first sight and marriage in a week is within the boundaries of possibility.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

15 El juez era un mozalvete despabilado, de estos que todos los días aparecen en los criaderos de eminencias, aspirando recién empollados a los primeros puestos de la administración y de la política.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

He was cautious in drawing conclusions, and did not believe that existing species are now undergoing modification; and, as his son adds, "C'est donc un probleme a reserver entierement a l'avenir, suppose meme que l'avenir doive avoir prise sur lui.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

At the end of that time, and about four months after Totski’s last visit (he had stayed but a fortnight on this occasion), a report reached Nastasia Philipovna that he was about to be married in St. Petersburg, to a rich, eminent, and lovely woman.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I had always regarded Europe, and London, and Paris, much as I regarded heaven.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

George said that in that case we must take a rug each, a lamp, some soap, a brush and comb (between us), a toothbrush (each), a basin, some tooth-powder, some shaving tackle (sounds like a French exercise, doesn’t it?), and a couple of big-towels for bathing.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

pñte al re elq a lle era vna veſta de veluto ꝟde a la turcheſca vna cathedra de veluto morello cinque
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

[64-4] a los polacos, o un terror supersticioso a Polonia, [64-5] pues no hacía 10 más que preguntarnos a Juan y a mi «si tendríamos que pasar por aquella tierra para ir a Rusia,» estremeciéndose a la idea de que tal
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The analysis here given explains why the worst charge which can ever be brought against rapacious extortioners and legal sharpers is, that they appropriate for themselves the goods of widows and orphans.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Thus briefly stating his confidence that the United States would agree on three of the articles, Russell explained at length his views as to privateering in the American crisis.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

On some of the more lonely plantations, as I have pointed out elsewhere, they still seem unaware that they are emancipated, but the vast majority have foresworn all regular employment, and live as best they can, from hand to mouth.
— from Cuba Past and Present by Richard Davey

The tender solicitudes and almost religious exclusiveness are later phases of the passion.
— from Command by William McFee

Not sea-born only; sprung from Earth, Air, Ocean, Star-Fire; all elements and forms commingling To give thee birth, to utter each its thought Of beauty held in many forms diverse, In one form, holding all, a living Love, Their far-surpassing child, their chosen queen By virtue of thy dignities combined!"— And when in some great hour of wild surprise, She floats into his sight; and, rapt, entranced, At last he gazes, as I gaze on thee,
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by George MacDonald

He supposes that a river entering a lake floated into it some of the leaves and land insects, together with the carcasses of quadrupeds, among others a great Mastodon.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

She pushed the door open, and entered a room equally as large as the others, but which seemed rather a study-room than a salon.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

The present struggle may leave the Osmanli Empire in one of three situations: (1) member of a victorious alliance, reinforced, enlarged, and lightened of financial burdens, as the wages of its sin; (2) member of a defeated alliance, bound to pay the price of blood in loss of territory, or independence, or even existence; (3) party to a compromise under which its territorial empire might conceivably remain Ottoman, but under even stricter European tutelage than of old.
— from The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Arnold Toynbee

At last he stopped; and, by the light which he held up for the purpose, they saw in a wall an aperture roughly excavated, and large enough to admit them singly.
— from The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'Tzins: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by Lew Wallace

I wish I had told Sir Andrew where we dwelt, or could be sure in which of that maze of streets he and Red Eve are lodged.
— from Red Eve by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard