But just as often, when he heard the soft whispers enveloping him he wailed, “Good Lord, what have I done? Just played with the Bunch, and called down Clarence Drum about being such a high-and-mighty sodger.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

5 O sweet pale Margaret, O rare pale Margaret, Come down, come down, and hear me speak: Tie up the ringlets on your cheek: The sun is just about to set.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

à la mere, le Conseil estime que l’on pourroit se servir du moyen proposé, dans la confiance qu’il a, que Dieu n’a point laissé ces sortes d’enfans sans aucuns secours, & supposant, comme il est exposé, que le moyen dont il s’agit est propre à leur procurer le baptéme; cependant comme il s’agiroit, en autorisant la pratique proposée, de changer une regle universellement établie, le Conseil croit que celui qui consulte doit s’addresser à son evéque, & à qui il appartient de juger de l’utilité, & du danger du moyen proposé, & 108 comme, sous le bon plaisir de l’evéque, le Conseil estime qu’il faudroit recourir au Pape, qui a le droit d’expliquer les régles de l’eglise, & d’y déroger dans le cas, ou la loi ne sçauroit obliger, quelque sage & quelque utile que paroisse la maniére de baptiser dont il s’agit, le Conseil ne pourroit l’approver sans le concours de ces deux autorités.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

32 In other registers called Del Cano, Delcano, and simply Juan Sebastian.— Navarrete .
— 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

Certes, ils allouent à l'auteur entre 18 et 36% des ventes, mais au milieu d'un catalogue qui pourrait aller jusqu'à 6 millions d'auteurs, sans critères, sans références, n'est-ce pas un peu une manière "d'arnaque classique" du compte d'auteur adaptée au net?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Estos hipódromos tienen pistas muy bien cuidadas para carreras de caballos, de automóviles o de a pie, aunque estas últimas se llevan a cabo en campos atléticos que mantienen las sociedades deportivas y de gimnasia.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

quelque sage & quelque utile que paroisse la maniere de baptiser dont il s'agit, le Conseil ne pourroit l'approver sans le concours de ces deux autorites.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The doctrine of everlasting punishment, being essentially a heathen and not a Christian doctrine, cannot do any Christian good to any one.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

A few days later came Danton, Camille, Desmoulins, and the few who remained of the moderate party.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Facta Cypridis de cruore deque Amoris osculo Deque gemmis deque flammis deque solis purpuris Cras ruborem qui latebat veste tectus ignea Unico marita nodo non pudebit solvere.
— from Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail

"Of course," Dan continued deprecatingly, as if even to question this were an impertinence on his part, "you'll search that young man's pack?"
— from The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel. Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

No subject appeared so exhaustless as the faults and follies of their particular friends; their poverty, wealth, avarice, or extravagance; while the liveliness of their conversation, instead of emanating, like that of the Granvilles, from the gay fancies and spontaneous sparklings of their own minds, was almost entirely derived from the follies and personal defects of others; and Marion could not but remember with a smile the country clergyman, who said once from the pulpit, that "people should never speak ill of their neighbors,—except among a few friends!" "Let us invite only the tolerable-looking girls in each family, and no chaperons with turbans and large caps to overshadow the room," said Captain De Crespigny, drawing a broad dash of his pen through the name of Lady Towercliffe.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

@Niger:Government Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Niger conventional short form: Niger local long form: Republique du Niger local short form: Niger Data code: NG Government type: republic Capital: Niamey Administrative divisions: 7 departments (departements, singular - departement), and 1 capital district* (capitale district); Agadez, Diffa, Dosso, Maradi, Niamey*, Tahoua, Tillaberi, Zinder Independence: 3 August 1960 (from France) National holiday: Republic Day, 18 December (1958) Constitution: the constitution of January 1993 was revised by national referendum on 12 May 1996 and again by referendum on 18 July 1999 Legal system: based on French civil law system and customary law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state:
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

("'The man they called Dizzy' can despise a miserable creature ...") Page 131 : sweatmeats amended to sweetmeats Page 143 : aristocractic amended to aristocratic Page 147 : sentiment amended to sentiments Page 163 : Mahommedan amended to Mohammedan Page 181 : Macchiavelli amended to Machiavelli Page 241 :
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen