Conque, vamos, doña Inés, So come now, Doña Ines, recogeos, que ya es hora: collect yourself, for it’s time; mal ejemplo
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

This would not only have called Van Dorn back, but would have compelled the retention of a large rebel force far to the south to prevent a repetition of such raids on the enemy's line of supplies.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

destroying &c. v.; demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition &c. (abrogation) 756; biblioclasm[obs3]; sacrifice; ravage, razzia[obs3]; inactivation; incendiarism; revolution &c. 146; extirpation &c. (extraction) 301; beginning of the end, commencement de la fin[French], road to ruin; dilapidation &c. (deterioration) 659; sabotage.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

H2 anchor CHAPTER V Davout was to Napoleon what Arakchéev was to Alexander—though not a coward like Arakchéev, he was as precise, as cruel, and as unable to express his devotion to his monarch except by cruelty.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

They paid excellent prices, assuming all responsibility, and engagements with them were considered very desirable.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Lady Clara Vere de Vere, When thus he met his mother's view, She had the passions of her kind, She spake some certain truths of you.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Matthew says Joram begat Ozias, but Chronicles virtually declares Joram had no such son, although he had a great-great-grandson Uzziah.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Chi vuol dell' acqua chiara, vada alla fonte —He who wants the water pure must go to the spring-head.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Pages 60 - 87 CHAPTER IV THE ARISTOCRATIC IDEAL Eminence, once existing, grows by its own operation.—Its causes natural and its privileges just.—Advantage of inequality.—Fable of the belly and the members.—Fallacy in it.—Theism expresses better the aristocratic ideal.—A heaven with many mansions.—If God is defined as the human ideal, apotheosis the only paradise.—When natures differ perfections differ too.—Theory that stations actually correspond to faculty.—Its falsity.—Feeble individuality the rule.—Sophistical envy.—Inequality is not a grievance; suffering is.—Mutilation by crowding.—A hint to optimists.—How aristocracies might do good.—Man adds wrong to nature's injury.—Conditions of a just inequality Pages 88 - 113 CHAPTER V DEMOCRACY Democracy as an end and as a means.—Natural democracy leads to monarchy.—Artificial democracy is an extension of privilege.—Ideals and expedients.—Well-founded distrust of rulers.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Who, then, could so well fill this description as our friend Professor John C. Van Dyke?
— from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie

‘You love your country very dearly?’
— from On the Eve: A Novel by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

IV—JUNE’S PROMISE CHAPTER V—DICK KEEPS THE LOCKET CHAPTER VI—A DOUBTFUL MATTER CHAPTER VII—SOMETHING WRONG CHAPTER VIII—FARDALE’S WAY CHAPTER IX—DICK WINS AGAIN CHAPTER X—A MASTER OF HIMSELF CHAPTER XI—BOUND BY A PROMISE CHAPTER XII—A WARM MEETING CHAPTER XIII—THE PROMPTINGS OF CONSCIENCE CHAPTER XIV—ARLINGTON SHOWS HIS HAND CHAPTER XV—DETERMINED DICK CHAPTER XVI—A FINE PAIR CHAPTER XVII—DICK CONQUERS HIS ENEMY CHAPTER XVIII—BUNOL HOLDS HIS GRIP CHAPTER XIX—A CRY IN THE NIGHT CHAPTER XX—DONE IN THE DARK CHAPTER XXI—ON THE ACADEMY STEPS CHAPTER XXII—ANOTHER VICTORY FOR FARDALE CHAPTER XXIII—CHESTER FINDS A MASTER CHAPTER XXIV—
— from Dick Merriwell's Trap; Or, The Chap Who Bungled by Burt L. Standish

From the Chu valley, dotted here and there with Kirghiz tent villages and their grazing flocks and herds, we pushed our wheels up the broken path, which wound like a mythical stairway far up into the low-hanging clouds.
— from Across Asia on a Bicycle The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking by Thomas Gaskell Allen

“I found him sitting there,” went on Fyne impressively in his effortless, grave chest voice, “drafting his will.”
— from Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad

Thus, the words happiness and beauty, suggest, in conversation, very different ideas to different men; and in arguing, concerning these, they could never come to a conclusion.
— from Practical Education, Volume II by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

I spoke quickly, and before De Artigny could voice decision.
— from Beyond the Frontier: A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Randall Parrish