Moreover, those who are most exact in laying down rules of verbal criticism and interpretation, are often least competent to carry out their own precepts.
— from The Iliad by Homer

enamorado in love ( de with), lover.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

She will not be able to entertain the slightest suspicion, especially if Le Duc shews her her work, and in two or three hours you will have the pleasure of hearing everything from his lips.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Starting with this arresting arm, the eye is led down the majestic figure of St. Mark, past the recumbent figure, and across the picture by means of the band of light on the ground, to the 237 important group of frightened figures on the right.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

" Radish, looking thin, pale, and rather terrible, shut his eyes, shook his head, and muttered in a philosophic tone: "The grub eats grass, rust eats iron, lies devour the soul.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Enfin il le découvrit et lui réclama les balles de soie.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

The building was opened by the first dramatic corps, ever in Louisiana directly from France, in November, 1819.
— from Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Benjamin Moore Norman

In the Provinces of Cashel and Tuam, in the fourteenth century, we do not often find a foreign born Bishop; even in Leinster double elections and double delegations to Rome, show how deeply the views of the patriotic Nicholas McMaelisa had seized upon the clergy of the next age.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Even if Leonardo does not seem wholly to come to his rights in this remarkable essay, the incidental criticism and the fresh point of view are boldly significant.” R: Offner + — Dial 63:447 N 8 ‘17 1850w “Offers besides the reprinted papers a novelty and a sensation in a revaluation of Leonardo da Vinci.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

—There was an unwritten Bible before the written word, handed down from patriarchs to scribes; and even in lands destitute of the Scriptures, we trace the dim outlines of truth transmitted from ancient authority.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, November 1883 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. by Chautauqua Institution

The formations of Egypt constitute a well-determined part of that great series of systems which compose the upper portion of the earth's crust: its silt is by far the most inconsiderable of its deposits; and if five thousand six hundred and fifty years were exhausted in laying down layer after layer of the twenty feet which form its average thickness, what enormous periods must we not demand in addition for the laying down of the forest formation, of the marine limestone formation, of the New Red Sandstone formation, of the Breccia de Verde formation, and, in short, for the some ten miles of fossiliferous rock of which those deposits form such definite, well-determined portions; besides the time necessary for the production of the enormously developed Azoic rocks which lie under all!
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

These discoveries of the ancient folks have been "merely elaborated in later days".
— from Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

First Contest Between Gladstone and Disraeli In 1852 he first came into opposition with the man against whom he was to be pitted during the remainder of his career, Benjamin Disraeli, who had made himself a power in Parliament, and in that year became Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Derby’s Cabinet and leader of the House of Commons.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

And as I stood looking about me, I remember that some cruising insect trawled near my ear its lonely drone.
— from The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel