The other gentleman was plainly impatient to be gone, however, and as they hurried into the hackney cabriolet immediately afterwards, perhaps Mr. Nickleby forgot to mention circumstances so unimportant.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

He was probably about fifty years of age, his shoulders cringed a little as he talked, and his eyes, small and crafty, shifted unceasingly.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

And now, therefore, after having been long on the way, we Argonauts of the ideal, whose pluck is greater than prudence would allow, and who are often shipwrecked and bruised, but, as I have said, healthier than people would like to admit, dangerously healthy, and for ever recovering our health—it would seem as if we had before us, as a reward for all our toils, a country still undiscovered, the horizon of which no one has yet seen, a beyond to every country and every refuge of the ideal that man has ever known, a world so overflowing with beauty, strangeness, doubt, terror, and divinity, that both our curiosity and our lust of possession are frantic with eagerness.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Cette @dresse renvoie à une constellation de sites centrés chacun sur un individu.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

This I know, directly we stop learning the old languages (as is at present threatening) a new class of literature will spring up, consisting of writing that is more barbaric, stupid, and worthless than has ever yet existed; that, in particular, the German language, which possesses some of the beauties of the old languages, will be systematically spoilt and stripped by these worthless contemporary scribblers, until, little by little, it becomes impoverished, crippled, and reduced to a miserable jargon.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

that at present we wished them to collect as many horses as were necessary to transport our baggage to their village on the Columbia where we would then trade with them at our leasure for such horses as they could spare us.—They appeared well pleased with what had been said.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

When, on the contrary, strict universality characterizes a judgement, it necessarily indicates another peculiar source of knowledge, namely, a faculty of cognition a priori.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

During all of the trying winter of 1860-1, when the Southerners were so defiant that they would not allow within their borders the expression of a sentiment hostile to their views, it was a brave man indeed who could stand up and proclaim his loyalty to the Union.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

With that came Sir Uwaine, a gentle knight, and when he saw Sir Lucan so hurt he called Sir Tristram to joust with him.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

I pushed a couple of buttons, and the car started up.
— from The King of the City by Keith Laumer

I informed them that General Picton had got possession of the castle, but my story appeared to them an incredible tale; for it was actually impossible, they thought; and although they made me repeat it over and over again, they could scarcely bring their minds to credit such unexpected news.
— from Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees

Late at noon, having ridden [Pg 88] fifteen miles in the desire to reduce ten to seven, he came suddenly upon a wild and primitive piece of ground, that seemed half chase, half common, with slovenly tumble-down cottages of villainous aspect scattered about in odd nooks and corners; idle dirty children were making mud pies on the road; slovenly-looking women were plaiting straw at the thresholds; a large but forlorn and decayed church, that seemed to say that the generation which saw it built was more pious than the generation which now resorted to it, stood boldly and nakedly out by the roadside.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II by Various

No man that could see, unless he was a profligate, would think of marrying a blind woman; and the blind women knows this, and that’s why they love their blind husbands the more—they pity one another, and so can’t help liking each other.”
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

Directed by Red Cedar, they had collected some uprooted trees, attached them together with their lassos, and after this, forming a raft which would bear them all, they thrust it into the water, and entrusted themselves to the current.
— from The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert by Gustave Aimard

As the brig was coming straight in they could easily calculate where she would strike, so that the rocket men could set up their triangle and arrange their tackle without delay.
— from Charlie to the Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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— from Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast by George Sutherland

A foaming wave came sweeping up, on the summit of which we were carried forward until we could hear the boat’s keel grate on the beach.
— from Arctic Adventures by William Henry Giles Kingston

There was a mangy-looking crow sitting up there on a branch, and Morgan pointed at him as if at something marvellous, supernatural, and all those fool Indians stopped pow-wowing and stared up after him, as curious as monkeys.
— from The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

Don Francisco Vélez de Pereira: who, as Señor Obregón puts it, "was not only a Judge of the criminal court but a criminal Judge" ( no era solamente un Alcalde del crímen sino un Alcalde criminal ) because he made dishonest proposals to Doña Mariana as the price of her husband's liberation.
— from Legends of the City of Mexico by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier