The lowing of a cow in the quiet meadows, the splash of a trout in the fish-pond, the last notes of a tired bird, the creaking of wagon-wheels upon the distant road, every now and then breaking the evening silence, only made the stillness of the place seem more intense.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Omnibus in terris, quæ sunt a Gadibus usque / Auroram et Gangem, pauci dignoscere possunt / Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remota / Erroris nebula —In all the lands which stretch from Gades even to the region of the dawn and the Ganges, there are few who are able by removing the mist of error to distinguish between what is really good and what is widely diverse.
— 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.

X Of all the kings that ever here did reign, Edward, named Fourth, as first in praise I name, Not for his fair outside, nor well-lined brain— Although less gifts imp feathers oft on Fame.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

And ninety cities crown the sea-born isle: Mix'd with her genuine sons, adopted names In various tongues avow their various claims: Cydonians, dreadful with the bended yew, And bold Pelasgi boast a native's due: The Dorians, plumed amid the files of war, Her foodful glebe with fierce Achaians share; Cnossus, her capital of high command; Where sceptred Minos with impartial hand Divided right: each ninth revolving year,
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Accordingly Dalim revived every night, as the Duo queen every night put away the necklace, and died again the next morning when the queen put it on.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

portano capeleti de palma como li albanezi ſonno grandi como nui et ben diſpoſti nõ adorão niente ſonno aliuaſtri ma naſcono bianq i anno li denti roſſi et negri ꝓ che
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

D'autres sites sont en cours de réalisation et nous intervenons souvent en tant que consultants (référencements, veille concurrentielle, design, etc.).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The only trace of his former self that I could detect reappeared, every now and then, in his manner towards Miss Fairlie.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Carlos de Velasco ( Cubano ) Villaverde, Cirilo Antes, mucho antes que Pereda desplegase el estandarte del realismo en novelas como «El Sabor de la Tierruca,» Cirilo Villaverde, [66] procediendo por iluminaciones de su temperamento de artista, siguiendo a secas
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

la rigueur que tenés aux dits Farel et Calvin admodérer, pour l’amour de nous et pour éviter scandale, contemplans que ce qu’avons à vous et à eulx escript pour la conformité des cérimonies de l’Esglise, est procédé de bonne affection et par mode de requeste, et non pas pour vous, ne eulx, constraindre à ces choses, que sont indifferentes en l’Esglise, comme le pain de la Cène et aultres” (Herminjard, Correspondance , etc. iv. 428).
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

© Ada D. Russell (E) Nov. 1922 issue.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1950 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Dr. Rutherford, Edinburgh, never performs an experiment upon a cat or a spaniel if he can help it, because they are so exceedingly sensitive; and Dr. Horatio Wood, of Philadelphia, tells us that the nervous system of a cat is far more sensitive than that of the rabbit.
— from Vivisection by Albert Leffingwell

Col. C. G. Hammond , Ill. Edward Spaulding , M. D., N. H. David Ripley , Esq., N. J. Rev. Wm.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 03, March, 1878 by Various

It is also necessary to arrange in time with the overseer of the poor, whether he is to take one-eighth or one-fifth of the receipts for the hospitals—for the hospice , as he is termed, is placed at the door of all exhibitions in Paris, who carries off one-eighth or one-fifth of the daily receipts every night.
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 2 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

Nevertheless, I must endeavour to pass over several days rapidly, curtailing every unnecessary description, rejecting every needless detail, and yet dwelling so far upon the several events as to mark to the reader's mind that time was passing, and bearing on its rapid and buoyant flood a multitude of small objects, marking to each individual the progress of time towards eternity.
— from The Convict: A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Col. C. G. Hammond , Ill. Edward Spaulding , M.D., N. H. David Ripley , Esq., N. J. Rev. Wm.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 02, February, 1879 by Various

When I had done, the duke replied: "Expect nothing from the prince de Soubise: he will speak, no doubt; but how?
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

UU. de América, profesor de la Universidad de Rochester en Nueva-York, i jefe de una comision cientifica del Instituto de Smithsonian de Washington, vá á la provincia de Oriente con el objeto de esplorarla en cumplimiento de su encargo.
— from The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America by James Orton