His face was leanly composed; his gray eye dimly calm.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Or let him that is melancholy calculate spherical triangles, square a circle, cast a nativity, which howsoever some tax, I say with [3369] Garcaeus, dabimus hoc petulantibus ingeniis , we will in some cases allow: or let him make an ephemerides , read Suisset the calculator's works, Scaliger de emendatione temporum , and Petavius his adversary, till he understand them, peruse subtle Scotus and Suarez's metaphysics, or school divinity, Occam, Thomas, Entisberus, Durand, &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

" The King, not thinking of an evil design, came again the next morning the first thing; and when he spoke to his wife, and she answered, a toad sprang out of her mouth at every word, as a piece of gold had done before.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Le caractère exceptionnel de ces forums est qu'ils ne sont pas académiques.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Y si el débil corazón
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

no ha modificado ese estado de cosas?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

There is a different kind of knowledge good for every different creature, and the glory of the higher creatures is in ignorance of what is known to the lower.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

no entiendes de causas...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

11th Passed the 1st Division at Louza, and halted near Escalos de Cima in a wood.
— from A British Rifle Man The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo by George Simmons

In Germany exist District Consultative Councils or [Pg 169] Conciliation Courts, which deal with all questions relating to conveyance of goods on railways, and with the application of existing tariffs and the introduction of new local tariffs.
— from Railway Rates: English and Foreign by James Grierson

He having had the happiness of travelling down to Bowood with her, which she insisted upon, naturally enough declined coming all the way down again from London to see her safe home; so not being able to accomplish his fetching her back to town, she contrived to extort from him a letter stating that, owing to the late heavy rains, her journey back to London upon the railroad would probably be both tedious and uncomfortable, and advising her by all means to go home "by land," which, considering that the Great Western is his own road—his iron child, so to speak,—by which he is bound to swear under all circumstances, is, I think, a pretty good specimen of her omnipotence.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

That last phrase is a euphemism, however, for the meal each day consisted of the same meat served in three separate relays without vegetables, followed by fowl, an allowance of beans, and dessert.
— from Spanish Vistas by George Parsons Lathrop

For Wales and for England during centuries Arthur has been the representative "very gentle perfect knight."
— from The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch

Hither I come, said Ratten —Like the mole of the earth, deep caverns have been my resting place; the ground Rats are my food.—Secret minion of the Crown, raise thy soul!
— from The Rolliad, in Two Parts Probationary Odes for the Laureatship & Political Eclogues by Joseph Richardson