He now lived modestly with his mother-in-law, his unmarried sister-in-law, Malvina, his wife and four children which she had given him, on the third floor, over the entresol, rue du Mont-Thabor.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

That they (and more good minds than theirs) cannot span the vast revolutionary arch thrown by the United States over the centuries, fixed in the present, launched to the endless future; that they cannot stomach the high-life-below-stairs coloring all our poetic and genteel social status so far—the measureless viciousness of the great radical Republic, with its ruffianly nominations and elections; its loud, ill-pitched voice, utterly regardless whether the verb agrees with the nominative; its fights, errors, eructations, repulsions, dishonesties, audacities; those fearful and varied and long-continued storm and stress stages (so offensive to the well-regulated college-bred mind)
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Human needs and human ideals went forth in these forms to solicit and to conquer the world; and since these imaginative methods, for their very ineptitude, rode somewhat lightly over particular issues and envisaged rather distant goods, it was possible through them to give aspiration and reflection greater scope than the meaner exigencies of life would have permitted.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The convention, eager for public business ( with that first articulate emergence of the Trial just coming on ), dismisses these comparative miseres and despicabilities: splenetic Louvet must digest his spleen, regretfully for ever: Robespierre, dear to Patriotism, is dearer for the dangers he has run.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Taxando et ab his deterrendo humanam lasciviam et insaniam, sed et remedia docendo: non igitur candidus lector nobis succenseat, &c. Commonitio erit juvenibus haec, hisce ut abstineant magis, et omissa lascivia quae homines reddit insanos, virtutis incumbant studiis (Aeneas Sylv.)
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Since the ‘savans’ have made their appearance among us, the good people have become eclipsed.” —Rousseau, D
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

With which, turning exceedingly red, Dobbin ceased speaking, and almost choked himself with a cup of tea.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Turks.—Part I. The Turks Of The House Of Seljuk.—Their Revolt Against Mahmud Conqueror Of Hindostan.—Togrul Subdues Persia, And Protects The Caliphs.—Defeat And Captivity Of The Emperor Romanus Diogenes By Alp
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
— from Equation of Doom by Gerald Vance

To judge from the ruins as well as from well-preserved edifices, Romanesque days must have been full of great architectural activity.
— from Cathedrals of Spain by John A. (John Allyne) Gade

His friends say that he has an easily ruffled delicacy, a sensibility open to poetry, but jealous of showing its emotion.
— from The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Camille Mauclair

e religious doctrine.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

if he will not pass over, without reading, the following effusion— “Rue des Moulins, No.__, Paris.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"There now!" exclaimed Reuben, dropping his pipe in his astonishment; "to think that I had that fact right afore my eyes all my life and never could see it!
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Personification is a common enough rhetorical device.
— from Echoes of Old Lancashire by William E. A. (William Edward Armytage) Axon