They have been supplied from the inflectional table in the Appendix.} diês , m., day rês , f. thing Stems diê- rê- Bases di- r- Singular Terminations Nom.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

It is only a disinterested regard for others, and especially for what comes after them, for the idea of posterity, of their country, or of mankind, whether grounded on sympathy or on a conscientious feeling, which ever directs the minds and purposes of classes or bodies of men towards distant or unobvious interests; and it can not be maintained that any form of government would be rational which required as a condition that these exalted principles of action should be the guiding and master motives in the conduct of average human beings.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

yet to me Barbaric king, or knight of chivalry, Or the great queen herself, were poor and vain, Beside the grave where Dante rests from pain.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

“Upside down?” repeated Father Goriot.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

He drank resignedly from his tumbler, running his fingers down the flutes.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Both sit silent, listening to the metal voices, near and distant, resounding from towers of various heights, in tones more various than their situations.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Pinocchio ran fast and the Dog ran faster.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

[702] Obliquity of the eyebrows .—Two points alone in the above description require further elucidation, and these are very curious ones; namely, the raising of the inner ends of the eyebrows, and the drawing down of the corners of the mouth.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Better have twenty-five dollars than starve; the initiation fee was only twelve dollars, and no dues required from the unemployed.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

"Left front into line, double time;" the first company throws its long double rank from curb to curb, Drummond, its commander, striding at its front; Wing, his subaltern, anxiously watching him from among the file-closers.
— from Foes in Ambush by Charles King

Fearing he might seem motivated by vulgar curiosity, he explained, "I am doing research for an epic poem.
— from The Blue Tower by Evelyn E. Smith

The increased demand resulting from the cheapening of a product may call for more workers than were employed before the new machinery came in, and yet some of the former workmen may be thrown out of employment.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside the United States.
— from The Moons of Mars by Dean Evans

“I very deeply regret to say, most illustrious señor—and I beg you at the outset to understand that no one here is in the very remotest degree responsible for the deplorable fact which I have to state—that some of them are—dead, while others have been condemned to the galleys and are—I greatly fear—completely lost sight of by this time,” replied the alcalde, in great trepidation, which was fully shared by his twelve companions.
— from The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer by Harry Collingwood

"The collection is here in this great room, and in the bedroom of the deceased," remarked Fraisier.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

"What do you mean?" demanded Ruth, flaring up in haste, not at all like her usual placid self.
— from The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill