C'est à dire des trucs du genre ISAN (international standard audiovisual number), UMID (unique material identification) et surtout DOI (digital object identifier),
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

He can speak whenever he likes: in his sleep, on an empty stomach, dead drunk or in a high fever.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

‘Ah! you had better be down directly, or I’ll be down upon some of you in less.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The different forms of government owe their origin to the differing degrees of inequality which existed between individuals at the time of their institution.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Now," he said in parting from Phillotson, who walked out a little way, "I shall be able to tell the people in your native place a good round tale; and they'll all say 'Well done,' depend on it."
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

I should be overjoyed if I dared depend on it, but after all that I have seen how can one be secure.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

The evolution of life in the double direction of individuality and association has therefore nothing accidental about it: it is due to the very nature of life.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

One who destroys darkness, or ignorance.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

She had had a dreary day of it herself.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

He handed the glasses to Biff, who noted that the bird, which was something like a waxwing, but larger, had an appendage that extended from its forehead and draped down over its bill.
— from Brazilian Gold Mine Mystery: A Biff Brewster Mystery Adventure by Andy Adams

With dull days of inaction before them there was no need for early hours of sleep, so all talked loud and long and drank boisterously, when suddenly a series of heavy knocks was heard at the front door of the inn.
— from Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

A double door opens into another room, and one of the windows has a full view of the gallery.
— from The Charm of Gardens by Dion Clayton Calthrop

"The Emperor seldom reconsiders any decision, my dear Dubois ... once it is a decision.
— from A Sheaf of Bluebells by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

On that table, too, Andrew could see, was a great flagon, doubtless drained of its contents ere they slept, and some cups; also a lamp from which the light came that streamed forth into the night.
— from Clash of Arms: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

To Pottinger, who had hitherto been the chief negotiator on the part of the captives, Johnson would now have confided the delicate duty of inducing the deserter again to desert; but the task was declined, on the plea that the attempt was more likely to succeed in the hands of the latter, who seemed to have inspired a feeling of friendship in the breast of the commandant.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 3 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

When the limit should be reached, new enterprises must necessarily cease, and all that were not wisely planned must fall, [Pg 65] dragging down others in their ruins.
— from The New Nation by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

Instead of a senate, there was now a decuria (decuriones, ordo); instead of prætors, duovirs with judicial powers (iure dicundo), in short, the regular governmental officialdom for a Roman colony.
— from A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin

There the three ladies were all assembled, regarding with different developments of interest the new-comer, who had thrown himself, half-reclining, on a sofa.
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant