Pobre y feo en su hechura, 20 tiene de noble la idea que lo ha engendrado, la cual no es otra que convertir los ojos de esta generación descreída y soberbia hacia los ma
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

En Cuba, la operación de escogido y separación de hojas para capa y tripa se llama liga.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Four feet from the top of the wall there is a clear line of demarcation extending horizontally across it.
— from The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff

"The Edinburgh sermon, though doubtless softened in outline in these later years, is still a more carefully built discourse than one ordinarily hears outside of Scotland, being constructed on conventional lines of doctrine, exposition, logical inference, and practical application.
— from A Year in Europe by Walter W. (Walter William) Moore

And I should hate to think that any Confederate living or dead ever even remotely resembled the gray granite one on our monument.
— from Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler

A clear line of demarcation exists between life and death, and such a division is fixed by God between the righteous and the wicked.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

The Edinburgh sermon, though doubtless softened in outline in these later years, is still a more carefully built discourse than one ordinarily hears out of Scotland, being constructed on conventional lines of doctrine, exposition, logical inference, and practical application.
— from Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The trees, which are his private property, produce about 6,000 camel loads of dates, each load 400 pounds weight, and which may be estimated at 18,000 dollars.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

It is this which has blighted the countries of the East as much as cruel laws or despotic executives.
— from An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition by George Sharswood

2. To come to the history of the gospel dispensation: It is true in that time of the primitive persecutions under heathen emperors, this privilege of self-defence was not so much improved or contended for by Christians, who studied more to play the martyrs, than to play the men, because in these circumstances the Lord was pleased to spirit for and call them unto, and accept of their hands passive testimonies; while they were incorporate under a civil relation with the heathens, in subjection to governors who did not by open tyranny, overturn their civil liberties, only did endeavour to eradicate religion, which, at that time, had never become their right by law; while they were scattered and out of capacity, and never could come to a separate formed community by joint concurrence and correspondence, to undertake a declared resistance; while religion was only a propagating through the nations, and the Lord providentially did preclude the least appearance that might be of propagating it by any formed force, being the gospel of peace, designed to save, and not to destroy: yet even then, instances are not wanting of Christians resisting their enemies, and of rescuing their ministers, &c.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

[926] ; and I may also quote the celebrated lines of Dryden, equally philosophical and poetical:— 'When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit: Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

Even his opera scores were so inscribed, one indeed having the emphatic close: "Laus omnipotenti Deo et
— from Haydn by J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) Hadden