It neither includes the possession of high moral excellence, nor of necessity even the ornamental graces of manner.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Adhibenda praeterea munditia est non odiosa neque exquisita nimis, tantum quae fugiat agrestem et
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It was edited by Charles L. Force, from Boston, and like the early newspapers of New England, was printed on one side only. 1829.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

In rhetoric and histrionic art especially no other nation equalled or equals the Italians.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

After the long interval which had elapsed, no one, not even the grave-digger himself, could recollect the precise spot where these human remains had been buried in the village cemetery.
— from Primitive Man by Louis Figuier

(Back) Footnote 3-139: Pers 215-12-EL, "Number of Negro Enlisted Personnel on Active Duty," 29 Nov 45 (statistics as of 31 Oct 45), BuPersRecs.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

During the accredited hours of the paseo, however, gallants and friends are suffered to walk close behind them—so close that the entire procession often comes to a stand-still—and to whisper complimentary speeches into their ears; no one, not even relatives of the damsels, resenting this freedom.
— from Spanish Vistas by George Parsons Lathrop

[302] eveniebat, quod praeter regios equites nemo omnium Numidarum ex fuga regem sequitur; quo cujusque animus fert, eo discedunt, neque id flagitium militiae ducitur; ita se mores habent.
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust

In the wicked old days when the States took British books without paying for them they used to take them in large numbers, but now that they have turned honest and passed a law allowing the British author copyright on certain terms, they have in great measure ceased to take; for, by the strangest of coincidences, no sooner were British novels, histories, essays, and the like, protected in America, than there sprang up in the States themselves, novelists, historians, and essayists, not only numerous enough to supply their own home markets, but talented enough to cross the Atlantic in large numbers and challenge us in our own.
— from In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell