It will never do to be ignorant of the names and approximate ages of great composers, especially in large cities, where music is so highly appreciated and so common a theme.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

they are not to be nam’d, my lord, Not to be spoke of; There is not chastity enough in language Without offence to utter them.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A copious assortment of such paragraphs as these, with long bills of benefits all ending with ‘Come Early’, in large capitals, formed the principal contents of Miss Snevellicci’s scrapbook.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Il en voit passer sur une charrette, et il le marchande.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

And though my understanding furnishes me a priori (yet only in reference to possible experience) with the concept of such a connexion (i.e., causation), I cannot exhibit it, like the concepts of mathematics, by ( Anschauung ) visualising them, a priori , and so show its possibility a priori .
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Did the sun shine on any, who could enjoy its light with purer and more intense bliss?
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And those things which the Hebrew copies have not, but the Septuagint have, they have in like manner marked at the beginning of the verses by horizontal spit-shaped marks like those by which we denote ounces; and many copies having these marks are circulated even in Latin.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Few among us are either able or willing to carry education into later life; five or six years spent at school, three or four at a university, or in the preparation for a profession, an occasional attendance at a lecture to which we are invited by friends when we have an hour to spare from house-keeping or money-making—these comprise, as a matter of fact, the education even of the educated; and then the lamp is extinguished 'more truly than Heracleitus' sun, never to be lighted again' (Republic).
— from Laws by Plato

en France est aussi, à mon avis, éminemment importante car elle implique le concept de censure "géographique", à partir d'un territoire donné.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Twenty-five pounds do not go far in current expenses in London with a man who is given to be expensive, and Ralph Newton was again in want of funds.
— from Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope

It began, as I said, with a call, a low, prolonged cry, sounding, as nearly as letters can express it, like "Kr-r-r-r!
— from Little Brothers of the Air by Olive Thorne Miller

Very pretty single pieces, or small masses of rock, may be made by using peat, or coke, or cork, either in large pieces or smaller pieces glued together, and covering the surface with fine sand mixed with various dry colors, and adding colored lichens in spots here and there.
— from Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

If my Lady were so foolish to be deceived, or had not been an eye and ear witness herself, I might have disputed it; but giving credit to her, I cannot esteem it less than a miracle.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850 by Various

Our style of living may lawfully run from the bare necessaries of existence, through the stages of comfort and convenience, even into luxury, according to our condition and means.
— from Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin

There are several verbal alterations in the second edition, and one curious erratum : ‘In Lear , p. 173 [p. 269 present edition] dele line “Not an hour more nor less.’”
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt