When it was translated into the languages of Catholic countries, like France and Portugal, only one or two incidents were omitted, and the story was almost as popular there as with English readers.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

It alone could promulgate that humanitarian law of which the rising activity, tending to a great social uniformity, leads to the fusion of races, of different classes, of morals, codes, customs, languages, fashions, money, and measures.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

So Charan came like flaming fire back to her house, and said to her mother, “Keydong has come and I have seen him.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

Cosi` per li gran savi si confessa che la fenice more e poi rinasce, quando al cinquecentesimo anno appressa; erba ne' biado in sua vita non pasce, ma sol d'incenso lagrime e d'amomo, e nardo e mirra son l'ultime fasce.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The English company was known as the "State of São Paulo (Brazil) Pure Coffee Company, Ltd." Fifty thousand pounds sterling was granted this enterprise, which roasted and packed a brand known as "Fazenda;" promoted demonstrations at grocers' expositions; and advertised in somewhat limited fashion.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

," said the little concierge, " cherchons la femme !"
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

In the Discours sur l'Origine de l'Inégalité , p. 91 (edit. Bipont.), he says: Il y a un autre principe, que Hobbes n'a point aperçu, et qui ayant été donné à l'homme pour adoucir, en certaines circonstances, la férocité de son amour-propre, tempère l'ardeur qu'il
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

cur conscia lumina feci?
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Formal candles : Candles lighted for some form or ceremony, as in a religious service.
— from The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, Ph.D. by James Russell Lowell

Generally the Countess cared little for her husband’s reproaches, well deserved as they might be, but to-day she quailed before him.
— from Caught in the Net by Emile Gaboriau

XI THE SHOWDOWN Sidney Vassall, wondering what had become of Linda, wandered about camp covertly looking for her.
— from Jack Chanty: A Story of Athabasca by Hulbert Footner

“That cannot be said of me, there’s one comfort,” cried Lady Frances.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Patronage [part 1] by Maria Edgeworth

Here follows the portrait of Monsieur Dutocq, order-clerk in the Rabourdin bureau: Thirty-eight years old, oblong face and bilious skin, grizzled hair always cut close, low forehead, heavy eyebrows meeting together, a crooked nose and pinched lips; tall, the right shoulder slightly higher than the left; brown coat, black waistcoat, silk cravat, yellowish trousers, black woollen stockings, and shoes with flapping bows; thus you behold him.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

It's a shocking thing the way the press in this country construes license for freedom....
— from My Actor-Husband: A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

Graduate from Madras Christian College, letter from.
— from Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India A Study of Conditions among Women in India by Alice B. (Alice Boucher) Van Doren

But I must inform you, that there is a city called London, for which I have as violent an affection as the most romantic lover ever had for his mistress.
— from Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by James Boswell

The following history well illustrates a typical case of paralytic symptomatic impotence: 194 Mr. H., 45 years of age, a widower with one child, contracted lues fifteen years previously and was apparently cured after two years’ treatment.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey