“If ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so here.”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

In spite of what her sister declared, and really believed to be her feelings in the expectation of his arrival, Elizabeth could easily perceive that her spirits were affected by it.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Aujourd'hui, je participe avec d'autres à sa formalisation, les prototypes, design, logiciels, industrialisation, environnement technique et culturel, etc., pour transformer ce concept en un objet grand public pertinent.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

In spite of what her sister declared, and really believed to be her feelings, in the expectation of his arrival, Elizabeth could easily perceive that her spirits were affected by it.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

[2] Entonces es el gran momento de la contemplación: la vista se pierde sin distinguir señal alguna; el camino está por todas partes abierto, sin valla que se interponga; cielo y tierra son uniformes en color y en aspecto; de un lado todo celeste, de otro lado blanquizco, amarillento.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The eighteenth century encyclopaedists procured tolerance for the sorcerer; he is no longer amenable to a court of law, unless, indeed, he lends himself to fraudulent practices, and frightens his “clients” to extort money from them, in which case he may be prosecuted on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The eighteenth century encyclopaedists procured tolerance for the sorcerer; he is no longer amenable to a court of law, unless, indeed, he lends himself to fraudulent practices, and frightens his "clients" to extort money from them, in which case he may be prosecuted on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

There E. met with the young lady he saw entering the restaurant, et cum ea pernoctavit, the old man spending all this time in an adjoining room.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

No middle-aged matron who was not an Englishwoman could evince precisely the same manner—a manner so uncertain of herself, of her own merits, of her power to please, and yet so anxious to be proper, and, if possible, rather agreeable than otherwise.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

Exports: $385 million (2006) Exports - commodities: manufactures, sugar and molasses, rum, other foods and beverages, chemicals, electrical components Exports - partners: Trinidad and Tobago 15.5%, Jamaica 13.5%, UK 9.4%, US 9.3%, Brazil 8.3%, Saint Lucia 7.2%, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4.5% (2007)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The weight would, [pg 607] indeed, be an impediment to locomotion, but, provided it were in each case exactly proportioned to the strength of the limb which drew it, no one ... would have any reason to complain.
— from Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

Mr. Goldwin Smith, in an able article published in the Forum of April, 1891, on the question, "Will Morality Survive Faith?" shows at least that the best ethics which the world now has are the outcome of religious belief and of Christian belief, and he leads the minds of his readers to gravely doubt whether a gospel of agnostic evolution could ever produce those forces of moral prompting and restraint which the centuries of Christianity have developed.
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

The canoe was nearly new, it measured eighteen feet in length, and two in breadth, and would easily carry eight persons; the sides were supported by two poles fastened to the gunwhale by strips of a climbing plant (Flagellaria indica), that grows abundantly hereabouts, and with which also the ends of the canoe were neatly, and even tastefully joined; the poles were spanned together on either side by rope constructed of strips of bark.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by Philip Parker King