It was not one man, it was not a few men, it was France, France entire, France victorious and intoxicated with her victory, who seemed to be coming to herself, and who put into practice, before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du Vair after the day of the Barricades:— “It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Their civilization has become much more advanced: men there live in houses or under tents, and there are even fortified villages.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

It was Monsieur Lheureux, the shopkeeper, who had undertaken the order; this provided him with an excuse for visiting Emma.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Lumine Æon dextro, capta est Leonilla sinistro, Et potis est forma vincere uterque deos.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Q.E.D. Note—This proposition is also evident from V. Ax. ii. PROP.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

As is indeed evident from V. vi.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Once when, because it was the birthday of the Princesse de Parme (and because she could often be of use, indirectly, to Odette, by letting her have seats for galas and jubilees and all that sort of thing), he had decided to send her a basket of fruit, and was not quite sure where or how to order it, he had entrusted the task to a cousin of his mother who, delighted to be doing a commission for him, had written to him, laying stress on the fact that she had not chosen all the fruit at the same place, but the grapes from Crapote, whose speciality they were, the straw berries from Jauret, the pears from Chevet, who always had the best, am soon, "every fruit visited and examined, one by one, by myself."
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

The last-named were the first to emigrate from Vikör.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

He was interrupted every now and then by some exclamation from Mrs. Witham, till finally when he told of the episode of the Bible the landlady's pent-up emotions found vent in a shriek; and it was not till a stiff glass of brandy and water had been administered that she grew composed again.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

May had disliked to move except for valid reasons, such as taking the children to the sea or in the mountains: she could imagine no other motive for leaving the house in Thirty-ninth Street or their comfortable quarters at the Wellands' in Newport.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

'Know then, you, who are so eager for vengeance,' indignantly rejoined Swedenborg, 'that the fate of Sweden aids you.
— from Tales from the German. Volume I. by C. F. van der (Carl Franz) Velde

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— from The Earl of Beaconsfield by James Anthony Froude

This very clear sense of his rights engendered, from very excess of clearness, several disputes.
— from The Fourth Estate, vol. 1 by Armando Palacio Valdés

As a result he became even more reticent, pondering what the right combinations were to live life fully: inward versus outward explorations; feeling versus logic; work versus leisure; silent reverie versus boisterous revelry; digressions into the future and the past; savoring the present moment as in lying on a bench at Wat Arun watching clouds overhead, sensing the breath enter and leave his frame, and feeling a sense of awe that he was even cognizant of all this; conversely, doing and having agenda and purpose about the affairs of man, interaction which allowed one to avoid the intrusiveness of too many unwanted, distracting thoughts, all of which confirmed his inconsequence even in the here and now.
— from An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven David Justin Sills

He who is too far in front of his generation, who rises above the general level of the common manners, must expect few votes; he ought to be thankful for the oblivion that rescues him from persecution.
— from Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 2 of 2) by John Morley

The individuals who bring forth documents that they suppose to be deadly to the character of a noble person, always in her generation held to be eminent for virtue, certainly should not murmur at being called upon to substantiate these documents in the manner usually expected in historical investigations.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe

enormidad f vastness; enormity.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Answer came, and Swan bent over the table, listening, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the opposite wall of the dugout.
— from Sawtooth Ranch by B. M. Bower

Idiots, Indians, and persons convicted of crime excluded from voting.
— from Alden's Handy Atlas of the World Including One Hundred and Thirty-eight Colored Maps, Diagrams, Tables, Etc. by John B. (John Berry) Alden