Ante todo, la disposición geográfica del territorio americano que va desde el Río Grande a la Tierra del Fuego, no permite fácilmente la cohesión de muchos millones de hombres en una misma comunidad de ideales sociales, artísticos, religiosos; el hombre es hijo de las condiciones climatéricas en que vive, y a lo largo de [1] la América latina hay individuos que se tuestan doce meses al sol, y otros que tiritan de frío, y hay recios escaladores de montañas y míseros palúdicos de los pantanos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

That is why I place 'T.E.' Thoroughly Educated upon my cards; for my greatest pride lies in the fact that the world cannot produce another Woggle-Bug with a tenth part of my own culture and erudition."
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

She in some sort disarmed me, by stating and admitting everything that could be urged against it, and throwing herself entirely upon my chivalry.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Certes BMG est une multinationale, certes Napster est en passe de perdre son procès contre les autres multinationales de la musique; mais ce système de forfait peut amener à des solutions originales d'équilibre entre la liberté de l'internaute et
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Ruggiero, un ricco principe innamorato di Bradamante, e un musico; canta un poco Manzuolisch
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It follows that the game of chess, in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

The women on the corn-rick—Marian, who was one of them, in particular—could stop to drink ale or cold tea from the flagon now and then, or to exchange a few gossiping remarks while they wiped their faces or cleared the fragments of straw and husk from their clothing; but for Tess there was no respite; for, as the drum never stopped, the man who fed it could not stop, and she, who had to supply the man with untied sheaves, could not stop either, unless Marian changed places with her, which she sometimes did for half an hour in spite of Groby's objections that she was too slow-handed for a feeder.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

I will take away your effects under my clothes in several journeys, and I can begin to-night.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The admirers of Prince Bismarck would say that the daily prayer of the statesman should be there "une bonne digestion et un mauvais coeur."
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley

I have now about thirty-six enrolled upon my church book, twenty-five of whom I have baptized.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 04, April 1879 by Various

“Et utroque modo contingit in realibus relationibus destrui relationem: vel per destructionem quantitatis [or other foundation], unde ad hanc mutationem quantitatis sequitur per accidens mutatio relationis: vel etiam secundum quod cessat respectus ad alterum,
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 19:088:003 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 19: Psalms by Anonymous

il y avait des confédérations de plusieurs villages ou hameaux réunis en municipalités sous une charte et une magistrature collectives .
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

A surprise of unexpected joy does likewise often produce the same effect: “Ut me conspexit venientem, et Troja circum Arma amens vidit, magnis exterrita monstris, Diriguit visu in medio, calor ossa reliquit, Labitur, et longo vix tandem tempore fatur.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

My choice rests upon a singular blue and pink dragon two inches long, which will have a fine effect upon my chest on the side opposite the heart.
— from Madame Chrysantheme — Volume 4 by Pierre Loti

I fell into a languishing illness which proved my safety, for the black men having killed and eaten up my companions, seeing me to be withered, lean, and sick, deferred my death till another time.
— from Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by E. Dixon

"This man evidently understands my complaint," said I, and I pictured to myself a glorious time—a four weeks' dolce far niente with a dash of illness in it.
— from The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome