—When you wish to act you must close the door upon doubt, said a man of action.—And are you not afraid of being deceived in doing so?
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Pensez doncques à cel qu'a dit uns de ses Apostres: Nolite esse prudentes apud vosmet ipsos ; et uns autres: Quoniam multi pseudo-prophetae exierint ; et uns autres: Quod benient in nobissimis diebus illusores … dicentes, Ubi est promissio?
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

[204] L. Geiger: Der Ursprung der Sprache.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

DIALOGUE DANS UNE AUBERGE D'ESPAGNE Théophile Gautier, poète et critique français, nous a raconté dans un de ses livres l'anecdote suivante, qui donne une impression frappante de l'indépendance et de la nonchalance d'un hôtelier espagnol.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

[245] Der Ursprung der Sprache.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

= KEY: Separate \a.\. SYN: Disunited, disjoined, disconnected, unconnected, detached, severed, different.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

La revue Cultures en mouvement, à laquelle je participe périodiquement, m'a demandé en avril 1999 de diriger un dossier spécial sur la cyberculture.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Dílì mulímut ang duktǔr ug dúnay sakit sa kasingkásing, A doctor won’t administer anesthesia to s.o. with a heart disease.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Those who defend us, do so not infrequently with an apologetic air.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

A draft agreement had been drawn up during Somerset's protectorate in the hopes of arranging matters, 1328 but apparently without success.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

tomar la buelta de tiguex con buenas guias que lleuaba y dexo ordenado que como descansase la gente ueinte dias don tristan de arellano saliese con el campo la uia derecha de tiguex y asi siguio su camino donde le acontecio que desde un dia salieron de un aposento hasta terçero dia a medio dia que bieron una sierra nebada donde fueron a buscar agua
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

En général, les peuples n’entendent rien à la chronologie: les evènemens restent: les individus, les lieux et les époques, ne laissent aucune trace: c’est pour ainsi dire, une décoration scénique que l’on applique indifféremment à des récits souvent contraires.”
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote

Oh, go to sleep my darlin', now close dem little eyes, An' dream uv de shinin' angels, an' de blessed paradise; Oh, dream uv de blood-red roses, an' de birds on snowy wing; Oh, dream uv de fallin' watahs an' de never endin' spring.
— from Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales "The fiddle and the bow," "The paradise of fools," "Visions and dreams" by Robt. L. (Robert Love) Taylor

It was one of a row of buildings, mostly boarding-houses, in their dull unornamental dinginess strangely similar to each other.
— from Much Ado About Something by C. E. (Charles Edward) Lawrence

Long ago so celebrated a man as Jacob Grimm,—"Ueber den Ursprung der Sprache" ("The Origin of Language"), Berlin, Dümmler—following the footsteps of Wilhelm von Humboldt, had established a theory, according to which language is "not created, but produced by the liberty of the human will;" and judging from many of his Darwinistic utterances concerning the origin and development of language, he had traced its development in such a way as to arrive at the conclusion that artless simplicity in the unfolding of the senses is the first period of its appearance.
— from The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Rudolf Schmid