French women, fashioned by their amiable men, themselves creatures only of vanity and physical desires, are less active, less energetic, less feared, and, what's more, less loved and less powerful, than Spanish and Italian women.
— from On Love by Stendhal

where one proposes raising the value of specie when the king’s debts are large, and lowering it when his revenues were to come in, that so he might both pay much with a little, and in a little receive a great deal.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

Allor distese al legno ambo le mani; per che 'l maestro accorto lo sospinse, dicendo:
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

But you’re so featherbrained, Anne, I’ve been waiting to see if you’d sober down a little and learn to be steady before I begin.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

A sinking, a depression, a lowness, a lassitude, a debility.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

[5] de antiguo, long ago; long since .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Life at Green Gables was full of just such days, for Anne’s adventures and misadventures, like those of other people, did not all happen at once, but were sprinkled over the year, with long stretches of harmless, happy days between, filled with work and dreams and laughter and lessons.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Swinburne, when he dodged about London, a lively young dog, wrote "Poems and Ballads," and "Chastelard," since he has gone to live at Putney, he has contributed to the Nineteenth Century , and published an interesting little volume entitled, "A Century of Rondels," in which he continues his plaint about his mother the sea.
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

It describes a lover as lost to his mistress, by being reft away into fairy-land, and as recovered by an effort of courage and presence of mind on her part.
— from The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship by Robert Chambers

While he yet hesitated, a leaf of paper blew towards him, and danced about like a large erratic butterfly, finally dropping just where the stick on which he leaned made a hole in the sand.
— from The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli

“The old woman’s father died and left a little bit of money, and they bought a tidy little place out on Cedar Place, not far from St. Mary’s Church.
— from Killykinick by Mary T. (Mary Theresa) Waggaman

Indeed, if we may judge by the recent history of the most highly-evolved textile industries, we are entitled to expect that, when machinery has got firm hold of all those industries which lend themselves easily to routine production, the proportion of the whole working population engaged directly in machine-tending will continually decrease, a larger and larger proportion being occupied in those parts of the transport and distributing industries which do not lend themselves conveniently to machinery, and in personal services.
— from The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

And higher and higher grew the revels, and wilder the dancing, and louder and louder the singing.
— from Dreams by Olive Schreiner

He had ever expected, he said, beyond all comparison, the welfare and security of the public before his own; "having always placed his particular interests under his foot, even as he was still resolved to do, as long as life should endure."
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

The platform is surmounted by a dome and lantern and little side pepper-boxes.
— from Brittany by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Already it appeared learned, profound, full of daring and life, as later times have seen it.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné