En effet, les avantages du papier sont insurpassables: - la facilité et le confort de lecture, bien supérieurs
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The streams, the plains and woods know well, he says, how he has tried to escape the perverse and stupid people who have missed the way to heaven:— Cercato ho sempre solitaria vita (Le rive il sanno, e le campagne e i boschi) Per fuggir quest' ingegni storti e loschi Che la strada del ciel' hanno smarrita .
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

5 —Es raro—dijo el canónigo.—Viviendo en la casa
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Esto último sucedió en Orbajosa, porque en aquellos días no había glorias que cantar ni motivo alguno para tejer coronas ni trazar letreros triunfales, ni mentar siquiera hazañas de nuestros bravos, por cuya razón todo fué miedo 20 y desconfianza en la episcopal ciudad, que si bien pobre, no carecía de tesoros en gallinas, frutas, dinero y doncellez, los cuales corrían gran riesgo desde que entraron los consabidos alumnos de Marte.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Then he settled himself as best he might and still trembling in every limb, crossed his hands upon his breast, as it had been enjoined him; whereupon Buffalmacco set off at an amble towards Santa Maria della Scala and going on all fours, brought him hard by the Nunnery of Ripole.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Se encuentra en la ciudad todo lo que pertenece a un gran centro comercial.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

De Cuzco el ferrocarril nos lleva hasta Puno, sobre el lago Titicaca, a 12,500 pies de elevación; cruzamos las aguas del lago en un vapor moderno, de mil toneladas, que nos lleva a Guaqui, en la costa boliviana; y de allí llegamos fácilmente en tren o diligencia a La Paz, teniendo a la vista el Illimani.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Queſto ſtreto e longo cento et diece legue q̃ ſonno 440 millia et largo piu et mancho de meza legua q̃ va a referire in vno alt o mare chiamato mar pacificho circundato da mõtagnie altiſſime caricate de neue nõ li poteuamo tro uare fondo ſinon con lo proiſe in tera in 25 et 30 braza et ſe non era eL capitanio gennerale nõ trouauamo Queſto ſtrecto perch̃ tuti penſauamo et diceuamo como era ſerato tuto intorno.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

26 6½ M. 21 7 0 55½ N N E Light clouds, but frequent throughout the air.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

Every little chamber (guard houses) was one reed long (six cubits) and six cubits broad—twice 6—12.
— from The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition by Arno Clemens Gaebelein

M. L. Montel et Lambert : Chants populaires du Languedoc, 1880.
— from Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes by Lina Eckenstein

The custom of carrying a pen behind the ear, lately common, is ancient.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

I read in the interesting publication of M. Grand-Carteret ( Les Moeurs et la Caricature en France 1888) that our artist produced nearly 4000 lithographs and a thousand drawings on wood, up to the time when failure of eyesight compelled him to rest.
— from Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James

[Martin Alfonsso de Parraga] entregue en la galera Nuestra Señora de la Soledad á cargo del capitan D. Diego Chirinos la persona de Iza Ben Izbara, natural del lugar de Ifre, que fué hecho prisionero con otros ocho en las Cuevas de Ifre el Viejo”
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

Luther: “ When logic objects to this doctrine that it does not square with her rules, we must say; ‘ Mulier taceat in ecclesia. ’ ” Luther called the Trinity a flower, in which might be distinguished its form, its fragrance, and its medicinal efficacy; see Dorner, Gesch.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

1895 ** Eason, R., 1. 1897 Eason, W. B., 1. 1908 Eckel, Adam, 17. 1900 Edinger, F., 25. 1906 Elam, J. G., 116. 1907 Elkins, J. W., 138. 1899 Ellerkamp, G. A., 9. 1908 Ellingsworth, E. B., 10. 1907 Elzey, Ed., 10. 1907 England, L. C., 128.
— from Redmanship in Kentucky for Fifty Great Suns by Frank L. Smith

Poi girò gli occhi, e pur allor s'infinse Que' duo vedere, e in se tutta si strinse: E 'l crin the 'n cima al capo avea raccolto
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt

The notoriously evil liver confessed that he had lain in wait for blood, and destroyed the innocent and helpless for gain or hate.
— from John the Baptist by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer