“Then, at least turn the gem inside, you silly fellow; for everybody must be aware that a cadet from Gascony does not find such stones in his mother’s jewel case.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The same explanation may be applied to all emotions of incli
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

She frequently admits that her sister admonishes her, "Susan, thee writes too much; thee should learn to be concise," but she delights in letter-writing and says: Most of the girls are taking a walk this First day afternoon, but I did not feel like enjoying myself by accompanying them as well as in holding sweet communion in writing with those inestimable friends I so dearly love, and arranging those thoughts in a manner congenial to our feelings....
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

An early marriage brought and took away;
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

To this accidental source of the error may be added the artifice of some celebrated authors, whose writings have had a great share in forming the modern standard of political opinions.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The suffix -eg- may be added to a root to augment or intensify its meaning, thus forming an augmentative of the root: barelego , hogshead (from barelo , barrel ).
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

The delight of ease had now succeeded to pain; for ease may be allowed to assume a positive quality when contrasted with anguish; and, his spirits thus re-animated, he wished to partake of the conversation of St. Aubert and Emily, who, released from so many apprehensions, were uncommonly cheerful.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

One wishes to keep the boundaries of one's acquaintance within certain definite limits, and choice is easier made before acquaintance than after.
— from The Etiquette of To-day by Edith B. (Edith Bertha) Ordway

Here Mrs. Mountjoy exaggerated a little, but some exaggeration may be allowed to a lady in her circumstances.
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

And I saw that Love and God are one, and that, because of His exceeding glory, He had been constrained to take flesh even as Christ took it, so that my dim eyes might be able to apprehend Him.
— from Moth and Rust; Together with Geoffrey's Wife and The Pitfall by Mary Cholmondeley

It is what English may be able to accomplish in the middle of the twentieth century, if we once awaken to the danger of contaminating our speech with unassimilated words, and to the disgrace, which our stupidity or laziness must bring upon us, of addressing the world in a pudding-stone and piebald language.
— from The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems Society for Pure English, Tract 05 by Society for Pure English

[453] The example may be amended thus: "A definition is a short and lucid description of a thing, or species, according to its nature and properties.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

He exonerates Miller, but accuses the absent Williams of imposture and fraud.
— from Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable

That suggestion derives some support from the fact that in Australia anything that is eaten may be a totem and being a totem is taboo.
— from An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons

Before quitting the subject of the "Madonna and Child," another example may be alluded to, about which it would be unwise to express any decided opinion founded only on a study of the photograph.
— from Giorgione by Herbert Frederick Cook

Totalitarian - a government that seeks to subordinate the individual to the state by controlling not only all political and economic matters, but also the attitudes, values, and beliefs of its population.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency