"You should have seen her dress for court, Emmy," Osborne cried, laughing.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Il est le modérateur de LITOR (Littérature et ordinateur), liste de diffusion francophone créée en octobre 1999 par l'équipe de recherche
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

[3] de fácil contestación , easy to answer .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I will provide public schools of all kinds, singing, dancing, fencing, &c. especially of grammar and languages, not to be taught by those tedious precepts ordinarily used, but by use, example, conversation,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But Dr. Flint cared even more for revenge than he did for money.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Nos textes sont reproductibles gratuitement dans la mesure où ce n'est pas fait dans des fins commerciales, et bien sûr sous réserve que la source soit mentionnée.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

HOMOLOGY.—That relation between parts which results from their development from corresponding embryonic parts, either in different animals, as in the case of the arm of man, the fore-leg of a quadruped, and the wing of a bird; or in the same individual, as in the case of the fore and hind legs in quadrupeds, and the segments or rings and their appendages of which the body of a worm, a centipede, etc., is composed.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Its influence is abundantly proved by the one circumstance, that it can bribe us into a voluntary submission of our better knowledge, into suspension of all our judgment derived from constant experience, and enable us to peruse with the liveliest interest the wildest tales of ghosts, wizards, genii, and secret talismans.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I well remember, among others, the treatise of the noble Italian, Coelius Secundus Curio, “ De Amplitudine Beati Regni Dei; ” St. Austin’s great work, the “City of God;” and Tertullian’s “ De Carne Christi ,” in which the paradoxical sentence “ Mortuus est Dei filius; credible est quia ineptum est: et sepultus resurrexit; certum est quia impossibile est, ” occupied my undivided time, for many weeks of laborious and fruitless investigation.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

While thinking of those other dear friends, Corporal Edgar Browder, of Chicago, and Lieut.
— from See America First by Charles J. Herr

The following classes must be carefully discriminated: (a) pre-Columbian, (b) Columbian, (c) pre-contact, (d) first contact, (e) post-contact, (f) present, and (g) spurious.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

al energy, or they may be absorbed by roots, etc.; but the proximate energy exhibited by them is not derived from chemical energy, and may be out of all proportion to the chemical energy of the substance or substances concerned.
— from Disease in Plants by H. Marshall (Harry Marshall) Ward

Madame Clément, Histoire des fêtes civiles et religieuses du département du Nord 2 (Cambrai, 1836), pp. 193-200; A. de Nore, Coutumes, Mythes et Traditions des Provinces de France , (Paris and Lyons, 1846), pp.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer

"Us chilluns run en hid in de fence corners en' behin' quilts dat was hangin' on de line.
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

Bullock made several casts with his own hands—masks, and so forth, delightful for cornices, etc.
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 5 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

The fact that the patent was directed from Castle Elizabeth in Jersey, however, is proof of the correctness of the earlier date.
— from The Great Civil War in Lancashire (1642-1651) by Ernest Broxap

Years after the events of 1824-25, the belief of Jackson that the will of the people had been defeated found classic expression in Thomas H. Benton's Thirty Years' View of Congress .
— from Union and Democracy by Allen Johnson

About forty miles hence, at the confluence of the Black Warrior and the Tombigbee rivers, lies the town of Demopolis, formerly called Eagleville.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard