But my portrait had been so widely circulated eighteen months before, that I was recognised at the last post.
— from On Love by Stendhal

" "Indeed I will," said the student; "give me the book instead of the cheese; I can eat my bread and butter without cheese.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

One morning, however, finding that my path lay through a deep wood, I ventured to continue my journey after the sun had risen; the day, which was one of the first of spring, cheered even me by the loveliness of its sunshine and the balminess of the air.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Example is more potent than precept; and a teacher's best conscious efforts may be more than counteracted by the influence of personal traits which he is unaware of or regards as unimportant.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

In the first place, a considerable amount of Constitutional Law at least, in certain ages and countries, has been established or confirmed by compacts expressly made between different sections of the community; who agree that for the future government shall be carried on according to certain rules.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

She, on the contrary, was sober with apparent solicitude and, as soon as I had finished the monster, rushed to me and carefully examined my body for possible wounds or injuries.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

"I can eat much better without," said Lavo, but to please Lucy his sister did try; slashing hard away with her knife, and digging her fork straight into a bit of meat.
— from Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

En 1985, Bill Dunlap crée Euro-Marketing Associates, une société internationale de consultation en marketing basée à Paris et à San Francisco.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

( so, truly, certainly , etc.) may be used for yes , and nôn , minimê , etc.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

They walked together towards the river, when the following conversation ensued: "Mr. Bass," said Northup, "allow me to ask you if you were on Bayou Bœuf last August?"
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

In spite, however, of these seeming anomalies, it can hardly be doubted that the periodic law is as much the expression of a natural law as is the law of gravitation; although it is possible, and indeed probable, that, as we now define it, it is only the first approximation to the truth, and that, as our knowledge becomes more precise, Mendeléeff’s classification, in its present form, will require modification and extension, just as Mendeléeff’s own scheme may be said to be a modification and extension of the attempts at the rational classification of the chemical elements made by his predecessors.
— from History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) From 1850 to 1910 by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe

A fairly common event may be toward evening to find a boy with a headache and a temperature perhaps of 102 degrees.
— from Camping For Boys by H. W. (Henry William) Gibson

The portrait prefixed to the "Life," also by Severn, is a most excellent one-look-and-expression likeness,—an every-day, and of "the earth, earthy" one;—and the last, which the same artist painted, and which is now in the possession of Mr. John Hunter, of Craig Crook, Edinburgh, may be an equally felicitous rendering of one look and manner; but I do not intimately recognize it.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The most pronounced childish egotists may become the most helpful and self-sacrificing citizens; the majority of idealists, humanitarians, and protectors of animals have developed from little sadists and animal tormentors.
— from Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud

What liberty of association the Cubans enjoyed may be judged from the fact that a delegate of the government had to be present at their meetings, with power to dissolve them whenever he saw fit to do so.
— from Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White

[Pg 26] THE CARPENTER BENCH The carpenter equipment must be a "sure-enough business affair," and the tools real tools--not toys.
— from A Catalogue of Play Equipment by Jean Lee Hunt

The other subjects comprising this unique exhibition, consisting of Characters in full dress as large as life, correctly executed, may be classed as follows : The late Royal Family of France, taken from life, viz., the King, Queen, and Dauphin; Pope Pius VI., Henry IV. of France, Duc de Sully, M. Voltaire, Napoleon Buonaparte, Madame Joseph Buonaparte, Cardinal Fesche, one of Buonaparte’s
— from The Romance of Madame Tussaud's by John Theodore Tussaud

The features of the male character were stamped with the gentle pride of the victor, still further tempered by the kindness and modesty of the hero; the comtesse, even more beautiful than the figure of Lebrun’s painting, expressed both admiration and grief.
— from Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna by La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de