LE BOURGEOIS EN COLÈRE Un bon bourgeois ayant appris que plusieurs de ses parents s'étaient trouvés à un repas de famille auquel il n'avait pas été invité s'écria en colère: «Eh bien!
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

"When a man is in the hands of a very dear friend and is not a businessman himself, he had better steer clear of the dear friend's diamond mines, or gold mines, or any other kind of mines dear friends want his money to put into.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Then again every man of modesty and propriety would avoid drunkenness, for anger is next door neighbour to madness as some think, 550 but drunkenness lives in the same house: or rather drunkenness is madness, more short-lived indeed, but more potent also through volition, for it is self-chosen.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

I will not say that I became discouraged, for as I now look back over my life I do not recall that I ever became discouraged over anything that I set out to accomplish.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Nevertheless, I had pronounced his doom, for an Italian never forgets to avenge himself on his enemy; he knows it is the pleasure of the gods.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The singers do not beget, only the Poet begets, The singers are welcom'd, understood, appear often enough, but rare has the day been, likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems, the Answerer, (Not every century nor every five centuries has contain'd such a day, for all its names.)
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Product of centralisation carried to an ad absurdum , it fairly represents the devil fish; and in no respects is the resemblance more curious than in the similarity of the digestive apparatus.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Betwixt those regions and our upper light, Deep forests and impenetrable night Possess the middle space: th’ infernal bounds Cocytus, with his sable waves, surrounds.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Degenerate, fallen as is now the Doctrine publicly preached by Gautama, it is yet preserved in those monasteries in China that are placed beyond the reach of visitors.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

For both buyer and seller seemed to take advice of the bystanders, who discussed and inspected the different fowls as if nothing so novel as poultry had yet fallen in their way.
— from A Chance Acquaintance by William Dean Howells

“Of course, my dear fellow, am I not telling you so?” “Well, Frank, in that case what I should recommend is this.
— from All But Lost: A Novel. Vol. 2 of 3 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Assuredly the Dean has a purse, and a tolerably well-filled one; and, assuredly, the Archbishop, on departing from an inn, not only settles his reckoning, but leaves something handsome for the servants, and does not say that he is forbidden by the gospel to pay for what he has eaten, or the trouble he has given, as a certain Spanish cavalier said he was forbidden by the statutes of chivalry.
— from The Romany Rye A sequel to "Lavengro" by George Borrow

“Certainly,” she replied, with grave and sweet simplicity; “it is the subject of my study every morning: the book was given me by my dear father and instructor now by my side.
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

On the low chairs groups of women crowded together, blending the vaporous hues of their dresses, forming an immense nosegay of living flowers, above which gleamed bare white shoulders, hair studded with diamonds, drops of water on the brunettes, glistening reflections on the blondes, and the same intoxicating perfume, the same confused, pleasant buzzing, made by waves of heat and intangible wings, that caresses all the flowers in the garden in summer.
— from The Nabob, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alphonse Daudet

Je me connais en beauté , my dear fellow, and I never saw such perfection, both of line and colour, as that.
— from Miss Bretherton by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

[15] I think this case is fairly included because the machaon type is so widespread that it cannot be regarded as a product of a Northern climate, nor can asterias be claimed as especially a warm country form, seeing that brevicauda , which is scarcely distinguishable from asterias , inhabits Newfoundland (having a curious phase there in which the yellow is largely replaced by red).
— from Problems of Genetics by William Bateson

It has no value as a food product for immediate use, [Pg 166] because it lacks a desirable flavor and is not readily digestible.
— from Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by H. L. (Harry Luman) Russell