3. Cēna est grāta agricolae 1 et agricola bonam fīliam laudat.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

I see thee cast expressive glances at the remains of my supper.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

In flute-like tones of sarcasm she said— "You can easily go after Mrs. Casaubon and explain your preference.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

[242] On their eighty-fifth birthday in 1906, the twin sisters held a family festival at the home of Mrs. Eric Ross at which four children and one grandchild of Mrs. Erickson were present and Mrs. Fuglestad’s four children, eighteen grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Of course this spirit of perversion was nothing new; many centuries earlier the prophet Isaiah had denounced it in the words: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness!"
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

What better résumé could be given of that tendency to perversion denounced by the prophet Isaiah in the words: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness"?
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Why did his cold eye glisten, and his heart leap up as they went past?
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

You cannot bail me yourself, but you can easily get a householder to do so.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[All the neighbouring torrents lose themselves in a low ground in the western mountains, called El Ghába, and also El Zaghába.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

One of the first examples of the breed exhibited in England was owned by Messrs. Hill and Ashton, of Sheffield, about 1880, at which time good specimens were imported by the Rev. J. C. Macdona and Lady Emily Peel, whose Sandringham and Czar excited general admiration.
— from Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

Mr. Cooper himself thus describes his motives: "The great object that I desire to accomplish by the erection of this institution is to open the avenues of scientific knowledge to the youth of our city and country, and so unfold the volume of nature that the youth may see the beauties of creation, enjoy its blessings and learn to love the Author from whom cometh every good and perfect gift."
— from Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Harry A. Lewis

They produce fertilized eggs, which are developed into ciliated locomotive larvæ; after a time these lose their cilia and acquire a rayed sucking disc, with which they fix themselves permanently to a solid object, and, after various changes, each gets a mouth and tentacles and becomes a perfect young hydra.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

But I will tell you what you can do or refrain from doing—you can either go and stand in the light, or you can go and stand in the shadow.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

He strode out, with a cold eye glanced at Hulda.
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

Definition of the term—Specific differences of civilizations—Hindoo, Chinese, European, Greek, and Roman civilizations—Universality of Chinese civilization—Superficiality of ours—Picture of the social condition of France 272 CHAPTER X. QUESTION OF UNITY OR PLURALITY OF RACES.
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de