[ dîligêns , careful ], compared dîligentius, dîligentissimê , industriously, diligently dîligentia, -ae , f. [ dîligêns , careful ], industry, diligence dî-micô, -âre, -âvî, -âtus , fight, struggle dî-mittô, -ere, -mîsî, -missus [ dî- , off , + mittô , send ], send away, dismiss, disband .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

" "Never fear, M. Aronnax," replied the Canadian; "I do not want twenty-five minutes to offer you a dish, of my sort.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Everything is in noble style; a great deal of music, Spanish airs, dreams of the regeneration of all humanity, ideas of eternal beauty, of the Sistine Madonna, light interspersed with darkness, but there are spots even on the sun!
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I'll eat my breakfast afore they're the death of me,” said he.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

yet all his good prov'd ill in me, And wrought but malice; lifted up so high I sdeind subjection, and thought one step higher 50 Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to ow; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then? O had his powerful Destiny ordaind Me some inferiour Angel, I had stood Then happie; no unbounded hope had rais'd 60 Ambition.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

But when she came to the place where the footpath led across the moor, she found small pools of water, and a great deal of mud, so she threw the loaf into the mud, and trod upon it, that she might pass without wetting her feet.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

If you weren’t I think I should just sit down on my suitcase, here and now, and weep bitter tears.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The view of a fine country, a succession of agreeable prospects, a free air, a good appetite, and the health I gained by walking; the freedom of inns, and the distance from everything that can make me recollect the dependence of my situation, conspire to free my soul, and give boldness to my thoughts, throwing me, in a manner, into the immensity of beings, where I combine, choose and appropriate them to my fancy, without constraint or fear.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A dozen other men, some prompted by a determination not to let a Spencer get ahead of them, others goaded into action by Improvers in their own households, had followed his example.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

By the edge of this sword, I swear that never deed of mine shall rob Camilla of her heritage; though I die the death, she shall not weep for a craven!'
— from Vittoria — Complete by George Meredith

If I, in the depths of my soul, have yielded myself to Jesus Christ, which I shall have done if I have truly accepted Him as yielding Himself for me, then the yielding of self draws after it, necessarily, and without a question, a new relation between me and all that I have and all that I can do.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

There were excellent reasons for this: she was lovely to look at, she would inherit a great deal of money, she had charming natural manners, and she was sweet-tempered.
— from The Penalty by Gouverneur Morris

“What on earth are you doing on my ship?” inquired the astonished Hardy.
— from At Sunwich Port, Complete by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

“I had a dream of Mardurbo,” said Kadoumin.
— from The Wanderers by Mary Johnston

Volumes upon volumes have been written to explain and discuss our monetary system.
— from A Nurse's Life in War and Peace by E. C. (Eleanor Constance) Laurence