Assaulted by a universal storm of mingled ridicule and execration, ( La Cour Pleniere, heroi-tragi-comedie en trois actes et en prose; jouee le 14 Juillet 1788, par une societe d'amateurs dans un Chateau aux environs de Versailles; par M. l'Abbe de Vermond, Lecteur de la Reine: A Baville ( Lamoignon's Country-house ), et se trouve a Paris, chez la Veuve Liberte, a l'enseigne de la Revolution, 1788.—La Passion, la Mort et
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

1870 envió el gobierno de los Estados Unidos dos comisiones de ingenieros a reconocer el terreno de los istmos de Darién en Colombia, y de Tehuantepec en Méjico, para determinar cuál de las dos vías presentaba menores dificultades y ofrecía mayores ventajas.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Dieu vous pardonne, mon ami, et
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

En juillet 2000, le site atteint les 2 millions de visiteurs par mois.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

I ’s got jist de very pattern my old man liked so much, a bakin’.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Filarmonici: mi raccommando via sempre nelle grazie di lei e non cesso d'affligermi nel vedermi lontano dalla persona del mondo che maggiormente amo, venero e stimo, e di cui inviolabilmente mi protesto di V. Pta molto
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Indirect as well as direct verifications pass muster.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

to pass away, disappear, vanish, perish, Mat. 5.18; 24.34, 35; to become vain, be rendered void, Mat. 5.18.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

It is headed thus: "The use and direction of the new-invented and never-failing Wonder Salve, by D. V. P. Mayerhoffer, of Markham, U.C., H.D., 5th concession."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The Institution and his design were known, and sanctioned by very ample recommendations, unnecessary to be inserted here, issuing from the highest sources in America—from the President and a great majority of the members of Congress, in their official characters;—it ought to be recorded—from the Father of his Country, George Washington , who well knew Dr. Wheelock, while an officer in the Revolutionary War, and honored him with his particular notice and friendship; from many of the most celebrated generals of the army, and Governors of the different states, with introductory letters from the Chevalier de Luzerne, minister plenipotentiary from the court of Versailles, to Count de Vergennes, prime minister of France, from the Secretary of the United States, and other eminent characters to different parts of Europe.
— from The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith

Perhaps the Inhabitants here are not above a Tenth Part of the Whole; yet as they are better fed, and cloth'd, and lodg'd, than her other Subjects, the Customs and Excises upon their Consumption, the Imposts upon their Houses, and other Taxes, do very probably make a fifth Part of the whole Revenue of the Crown.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Post hos est Porta ferrea, quam fecit Alexander ad excludendas Barbaras gentes de Perside; de cuius situ dicam vobis postea, [Marginal note: Reditus eius per Derbent.]
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt

Nel anno dil virgineo parto MD.XXVII.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

Continuo dispersa vigor per membra volutus 65 aestuat et venas recidivus sanguis inundat.
— from Claudian, volume 2 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

As Dr. Vivian Poore most appropriately remarked in reply to the argument that the lower animals did not require tea, coffee, &c.: "We are not lower animals; we have minds as well as bodies; and since these substances have the property of enabling us to bear our worries and fatigues, let us accept them, make rational use of them, and be thankful."
— from The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Philip E. Muskett

Madame la Baronne de Mortemer, j'ai l'honneur de vous presenter Monsieur le Docteur Carmichael. "
— from The Unknown Quantity: A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Henry Van Dyke

During Vice President Mondale's visit, a Joint Agricultural Consultative Committee was established, with the U.S. represented entirely by the private sector.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Jimmy Carter

As he stood rubbing his fore-legs together in self-congratulation over his exploit, his bearer addressed him in French quite as ready as the girl's: “Permettez-moi, Monsieur le Colioptere, de vous presenter mes excuses pour cette demoiselle qui s'exprime en langue etrangere chez elle.”
— from Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams