The snub-nosed youth is said to have a winning grace; the beak of another has a royal look; the featureless are faultless; the dark are manly, the fair angels; the sickly have a new term of endearment invented expressly for them, which is ‘honey-pale.’
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The snub-nosed youth is said to have a winning grace; the beak of another has a royal look; the featureless are faultless; the dark are manly, the fair angels; the sickly have a new term of endearment invented expressly for them, which is 'honey-pale.'
— from The Republic by Plato

Royal Danegelt was the copy of his sire, Danegelt, and the former at this Show had a number in precisely the same form in shape and action.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

They have no common frontier, and though Spain has a navy, Switzerland has no seaboard.
— from Naval Warfare by James R. (James Richard) Thursfield

"Let thy sleep be moderate; for he who rises not with the sun enjoys not the day; and remember, Sancho, that diligence is the mother of good fortune, and that sloth, her adversary, never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
— from The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

They had learnt the facts, accepted them; she had attempted no explanation; not one word had been said.
— from The Gunroom by Charles Morgan

The fairies, amongst their shortcomings, have absolutely no sense of political economy.
— from Much Ado About Something by C. E. (Charles Edward) Lawrence

"But for all that she has a noble nature," Lady O'Gara said.
— from Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan