[I had found in his ‘Elemens de Musique’ (Elements of Music) several things taken from what I had written for the ‘Encyclopedie’, and which were given to him several years before the publication of his elements.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don’t believe,” concluded Mrs. Lynde solemnly, “that the students at such colleges ever do much else than flirt.”
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The boy read aloud: "MR. H. M. WOGGLE-BUG, T. E." "Dear me!" ejaculated the Pumpkinhead, staring somewhat intently.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

In an opulent and improved society, where all the different orders of people are growing every day more expensive in their houses, in their furniture, in their tables, in their dress, and in their equipage; it cannot well be expected that the sovereign should alone hold out against the fashion.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

This is certain, that attempts of this kind are every day made even by those who philosophize the most negligently: And nothing can be more requisite than to enter upon the enterprize with thorough care and attention; that, if it lie within the compass of human understanding, it may at last be happily achieved; if not, it may, however, be rejected with some confidence and security.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

"Varro de religionibus loquens, evidenter dicit, multa esse vera, quae vulgo scire non sit utile; multaque, quae tametsi falsa sint, aliter existimare populum expediat.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Echei gar hôde; kata tas sphodroteras orexeis anô prostrechei pasi tois zôois hê gastêr, hôste tines tou pathous aisthêsin enargê schontes exerpein hautois phasi tên koilian, eniôn de masômenôn eti kai mêpô || 174 kalôs en tô stomati ta sitia katergasamenôn exarpazei phanerôs akontôn.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Ernung , sb. earning, desert, MD; earnynge , S. See Ernen .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Bank the bank to which the operation is entschädigen indemnify entschädigen; schadlos halten to indemnify Entschädigung indemnification Entschädigung indemnity Entschädigung bei Grundstücksenteignung just compensation Entschädigungsanspruch claim for compensation Entschädigungsanspruch claim for indemnity Entschädigungsanspruch right of damages Entschädigungsbetrag indemnity sum Entschädigungssumme amount of indemnification Entscheiden; Fällen von Entscheidungen decision making entscheidend decisive entscheidender Punkt crucial point entscheidet sich die Dokumente abzulehnen decides to refuse the documents entscheidet sich die Dokumente aufzunehmen decides to take up the documents Entscheidung decision Entscheidung der Unternehmensleitung management decision Entscheidungsfindung decision making Entscheidungstheorie decision theory entschlüsseln decipher entschlüsseln decode entschlüsseln decypher entschuldigen uns für die Unannehmlichkeiten we apologize for the trouble caused entschuldigte Fehlzeit authorized absence Entschuldigung apology Entschuldigungsschreiben letter of apology
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

With them, since, at the heart of all their entertainments, dinners, musical evenings, games, suppers in fancy dress, excursions to the country, theatre parties, even the infrequent 'big evenings' when they entertained 'bores,' there were the presence of Odette, the sight of Odette, conversation with Odette, an inestimable boon which the Verdurins, by inviting him to their house, bestowed on Swann, he was happier in the little 'nucleus' than anywhere else, and tried to find some genuine merit in each of its members, imagining that his tastes would lead him to frequent their society for the rest of his life.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

During the first few days of their captivity, all the prisoners taken at Mirebeau had been treated by the crafty John with kindness and even distinction; more especially Arthur and De Coucy, at least while William Longsword, the Earl of Pembroke, and some others of the more independent of the English nobility, remained near the person of the king.
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Thus easily did mythology explain all troublesome inconsistencies; but it is much that it should even have recognized them as needing explanation.
— from Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The day of its completion was made memorable by an event decidedly more exciting, even to the author.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

Syl Todd, who did not follow after his parents' form of religion, but went now to the Presbyterian Church and now to the Methodist, with impartial irregularity, emphatically declared Mr. Egerton the most stylish looking fellow he had seen since he left the States, and during the sermon silently registered a vow that he would part his hair in the middle, too, just as soon as he got home.
— from Duncan Polite, the Watchman of Glenoro by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

It became every day more evident that he was not thus gaining his object Those rapid marches, that adventurous shifting of the war to and fro, to which Hannibal was mainly indebted for his successes, were at an end; the enemy had become wiser; further enterprises were rendered almost impossible by the inevitable necessity of defending what had been gained.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Under emotions of an opposite kind, animals equally display muscular excitement.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

Addresses on Sunday-school Work, to be delivered by the following persons, will appear in the Assembly Daily Herald : Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D., Rev. B. T. Vincent, Rev. J. L. Hurlbut, Miss Fanny A. Dyer, Mrs. O. A. Baldwin, Rev. A. E. Dunning, Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller, and others.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, June 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

One of the writers of the times says: "In number of dishes and changes of meat the nobility of England do most exceed."
— from Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James

Getting up muscle, excessive drinking, midnight escapades, and immorality, alluded to more or less openly, are made to play entirely too prominent a part in both stories.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various