“If you mean Miss Marilla Cuthbert, she is not my aunt, and she has gone down to East Grafton to see a distant relative of hers who is very ill,” said Anne, with due increase of dignity at every word.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And in a corner Moissey would stand, and it seemed to us that he delighted in our discomfiture.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Related Words : Clases intelectuales, educated class; universitario, university man, doctor; licenciado, a lawyer admitted to the bar; bachiller, bachelor ( of arts ); literato, man of letters; publicista, publicist; educador, educator; sabio, learned man; naturalista, naturalist; profesor, professor; académico, academician; conferenciante (or conferencista ), lecturer; institución de enseñanza (or centro docente ), institution of learning; rector (or presidente ) de la universidad, president of the university; facultad, in Latin America, each of the schools or departments of which the university is composed; facultad de derecho y ciencias sociales (or ... de ciencias jurídicas ), school of law; ... de ingeniería (or ... de ciencias exactas ), school of engineering; ... de medicina (or ... de ciencias médicas ), school of medicine; substituto, substitute teacher; curso, course; materias, subjects; sacar matrícula (or matricularse ), to register, to matriculate; derechos de examen, examination fee; aprobado, passed; reprobado, failed; aplazado, conditioned; título, diploma; recibirse de médico, to graduate as a physician; estudiante, student; centro de estudiantes, students’ club .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though Hannibal shifted his quarters from time to time for short distances in one direction or another, he remained in the neighbourhood of the Adriatic; and by bathing his horses with old wine, of which he had a great store, cured them of the scab and got them into condition again.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

For the first time distinct ideas of danger began to press upon her; but there was no choice of courses, no room for hesitation, and she floated into the current.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Lots of girls do it; or do you think they'd get married at all?"
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Instead of doing as Ariosto, and as, still more offensively, Wieland has done, instead of degrading and deforming passion into appetite, the trials of love into the struggles of concupiscence; Shakespeare has here represented the animal impulse itself, so as to preclude all sympathy with it, by dissipating the reader's notice among the thousand outward images, and now beautiful, now fanciful circumstances, which form its dresses and its scenery; or by diverting our attention from the main subject by those frequent witty or profound reflections, which the poet's ever active mind has deduced from, or connected with, the imagery and the incidents.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The two companies having taken their stations, the music struck up, and with a martial sound, which had something of horrid in it, like a point of war, roused and alarmed both parties, who now began to shiver, and then soon were warmed with warlike rage; and having got in readiness to fight desperately, impatient of delay stood waiting for the charge.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

What joy to live again in a flower so pure, so lovely, which had never left the maternal stem; an angel whose budding graces and whose earliest developments he had passionately watched; an only daughter, incapable of despising her father, or of ridiculing his defective education, so truly was she an ingenuous young girl.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

What we have to do in our day and generation to make sure that America truly becomes one nation, what do we have to do?
— from State of the Union Addresses by Bill Clinton

It had been the custom of several leading members of the church to drop in occasionally, during the week, and chat with Grant for ten minutes or half an hour.
— from Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

[attacking an enemy unexpectedly or lying in wait for him on the road and attacking him] passenger on the king's highway]; fyrding [action regarding the military array or land force of the whole country]; flymenfyrm [the reception or relief of a fugitive or outlaw]; premeditated assault; robbery; stretbreche [destroying a road by closing it off or diverting it or digging it up]; unlawful appropriation of the king's land or money; treasure-trove; wreck of the sea; things cast up by the sea; rape; abduction; forests; the reliefs of barons; fighting in the king's dwelling or household; breach of the peace in the king's troop; failure to perform burgbot
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

It is maintained in violence, because the elections since clearly demand its repeal; and the demand is openly disregarded.
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne

The punishment of the wheel was not known at Rome, but we read of Mettius Tuffetius being torn asunder by quadrigæ driven in opposite directions.
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

If a defect is observed during prayer or meals or at night, notice thereof may be delayed for the time necessary to finish the prayer or meal, or overnight.
— from Studies in Moro History, Law, and Religion by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

We can not expect to be relieved from toil, but we do expect to divest it of degrading conditions.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Calvin Coolidge

The last part is not disagreeable, if one did not find it again.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore