La mort est plus aisée à supporter sans y 20 penser, que la pensée de la mort sans péril —Death is more easy to bear when it comes without thought of it, than the thought of it without the risk of it.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

And at last it said to St. Nicholas, 'Oh, dear St. Nick, I want to find a little girl who hasn't any doll—'" "Like me?" said Pussy.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Le prestidigitateur alla trouver les autorités et proposa de donner une séance au bénéfice des pauvres, si la ville voulait consentir à payer la location de la salle, etc. L'amorce philanthropique fit son effet, la recette remplit la caisse et l'envoyé de la Municipalité se présenta le lendemain matin pour toucher.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Mau gánì nga dílì layhang mupaúlì si Pápa, Mother is always angry at home.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If we have defined the social fact by the first of these characteristics rather than the second, it is because it is more readily observable, for it is translated into outward and visible signs; but we have never thought of denying the second (see our Règles de la Méthode Sociologique , preface to the second edition, p. xx, n. 1).
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

[720] On this point see Règles de la méthode sociologique , pp. 5 ff.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

DON LUIS: Mi suerte, Pascual, es ésa.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Enfin, si ces débats plaisent au ministère de la Culture… Le soutien à la publication, à la distribution, à l'existence du livre me semblent plus importants, si l'on veut éviter que l'édition, dans le futur, ne soit l'apanage de deux ou trois grands groupes.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

DUNN, LOUISE M. Shadow plays and how to produce them.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1965 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

mystère qui est au fond des sacrifices, consentis dans ce siècle en Orient, par plus de vingt mille martyrs du Behá’isme, parmi lesquels se trouve Qurratu’l-‘Ayn Táhirih (la joie des yeux, la pure), cette jeune femme turque, dépeinté ainsi par notre illustre écrivain Suleyman Nasif, et dont le martyre sans precèdent est cité aujourd’hui par le monde entier comme l’epopée sans pareille de la cause humaine.
— from Bahá'í Administration by Effendi Shoghi

“You do... like me,” she purred happily.
— from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine

"Stay where you are, my dear," Lady Moulton said, putting her hand on Hilda's arm; "there is plenty of room for three."
— from The Lost Heir by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty