We shall proceed to explain them more particularly, and illustrate them by examples from common life and experience.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Then she got rid of the Homais family, successively dismissed all the other visitors, and even frequented church less assiduously, to the great approval of the druggist, who said to her in a friendly way— “You were going in a bit for the cassock!”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Carlos! said the watchword, and then began an angry altercation: "Why did you fly from those cursed Yankees, when you knew they were approaching?" Porque mi Coronel, los Americanos rompieron el fuego contre la advanzda—y habia balazos aqui, y alla, y que podia hacer yo? rejoined the speaker—They fired upon our advance, and the bullets were flying so thick, that, what could I do?
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

Further on were the monteros at work—with heaps of gold and silver piled around—with eager faces, compressed lips, and glittering eyes absorbed in the intense interest of the game—not a word or gesture save the dull monotonous voice of the dealers, like to the tolling of a bell— Juégo señores!
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

Who could see in her eyes what he saw? Elderly folks can look at a girl's eyes, and see that they are brown or blue or green, as the case may be; but the lover looks at them and sees in them the magic mirror of a hundred possible worlds.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various

[279] Within it were the two cherubim of olive wood ten cubits high, with wings each five cubits long, “and he carved all the house around with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees, and open flowers, within and without.”
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

Now, danger illumines every face; courage, like an aureole, shines resplendent on every brow.
— from A Thousand Francs Reward; and, Military Sketches by Emile Gaboriau

Present at Vimiero (except four companies left at Elvas).
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman

Nous savons que nous pensons et que nous avons des remords: un sentiment intime ne nous force que trop d’en convenir; mais pour juger des remords d’autrui, ce sentiment qui est dans nous est insuffisant: c’est pourquoi il en faut croire les autres hommes sur leur parole, ou sur les signes sensibles et extérieurs que nous avons remarqués en nous-mêmes, lorsque nous éprouvions la même conscience et les mêmes tourments.
— from Man a Machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

The educational impulse the Prince Consort had given had died away after his death; the universities of Oxford and Cambridge were hindered in their task of effective revision of upper-class education by the fears and prejudices the so-called “conflict of science and religion {v2-487} ” had roused in the clergy who dominated them through Convocation; popular education was crippled by religious squabbling, by the extreme parsimony of the public authorities, by the desire of employers for child labour, and by individualistic objection to “educating other people’s children.”
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A new Record Office, palatial and imposing, in the Tudor style, now extends from Chancery Lane across to Fetter Lane, covering what used to be Rolls Yard; and the old Rolls Chapel is now incorporated in the newer building.
— from Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook