In this most venerable and sheltered little nest have I passed several quiet years of existence, comfortably lodged in the second floor of one of the smallest but oldest edifices.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

“Anna” Everything in this letter exasperated Countess Lidia Ivanovna: its contents and the allusion to magnanimity, and especially its free and easy—as she considered—tone.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Complete strangers would accost each other familiarly, just for the sake of easing their minds on the subject: every confounded loafer in the town came in for a harvest of drinks over this affair: you heard of it in the harbour office, at every ship-broker’s, at your agent’s, from whites, from natives, from half-castes, from the very boatmen squatting half naked on the stone steps as you went up—by Jove!
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

We will instance only Regnard's Joueur, who expresses himself with the utmost originality in terms borrowed from gambling, giving his valet the name of Hector, and calling his betrothed Pallas, du nom connu de la Dame de Pique; [Footnote: Pallas, from the well-known name of the Queen of Spades.] or Moliere's Femmes savantes, where the comic element evidently consists largely in the translation of ideas of a scientific nature into terms of feminine sensibility: "Epicure me plait..."
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

La tiranía detesta a los iluminadores de conciencias y misioneros de la verdad, y cuando no halla medio para silenciarlos, reduciéndolos a la impotencia, los persigue, los insulta, haciéndolos vivir errantes como los israelitas a través del desierto melancólico, de nostálgicos ideales.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Here Hector entered, with a spear eleven cubits long in his hand; the bronze point gleamed in front of him, and was fastened to the shaft of the spear by a ring of gold.
— from The Iliad by Homer

After our Saviours Ascension, the Christians of every City lived in Common, (Acts 4. 34.) upon the mony which was made of the sale of their lands and possessions, and laid down at the feet of the Apostles, of good will, not of duty; for "whilest the Land remained (saith S. Peter to Ananias Acts 5.4.)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

El concepto de FTPress es realizar medios profesionales especializados cada en un sector económico: la salud, el coche, la imagen digital, los recursos humanos, la logística, etc.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

These Ephesian Christians lived in a state of society honeycombed with hideous immorality, the centre of which was the temple, which was their city's glory and shame.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

In a box which he hauled from the dam he had more, some of 5-lb. weight, which had come down with the flood--an easy and profitable fishery, for the eels can lie in the trap till he hauls them out, and sell well summer and winter.
— from The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish

Administrative divisions: 5 divisions and 1 city*; Banjul*, Central River, Lower River, North Bank, Upper River, Western Independence: 18 February 1965 (from UK) National holiday: Independence Day, 18 February (1965) Constitution: approved by national referendum 8 August 1996; effective 16 January 1997 Legal system: based on a composite of English common law, Islamic law, and customary law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state:
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"Watch all the gates of the convent, that the murderer may not escape!" cried Leonardus, in a loud voice; and many accordingly left the church, seizing the staves and crosiers that had been used in the procession, and rushing after the monster through the aisles of the convent.
— from The Devil's Elixir, Vol. 2 (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

Forrest not only had them read, but looked over each copy, lending impartial assistance in reading characters that might baffle a boy.
— from Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

In that Puritan classic, The Pilgrim's Progress , one of the outstanding features is the striking absence of emphasis on the value of the social and domestic virtues, and the Rev. Principal Donaldson notes this as one of the features of early Christian literature in general.
— from A Grammar of Freethought by Chapman Cohen

While the existence of libraries of various kinds, and even circulating libraries, in the Thirteenth Century may seem definitely settled, it will appear to most people that to speak of book collecting at this time must be out of place.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

For centuries to come the rich plunder of the English camp left its traces on the treasure-rolls and the vestment-rolls of castle and abbey throughout the Lowlands.
— from History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green

The entire coast line is four thousand miles in length.
— from Foot-prints of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou