b a member of the former Democratic Party of the Philippines.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I never finished this novel: but as I wanted to write the libretto for an opera, I took up the theme again in its original shape, and built on this (as far as the principal features went) the following dramatic plot:— Two great houses had lived in enmity, and had at last decided to end the family feud.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Toutefois, compte tenu du procédé de fabrication de nos livres, le contrat est exempt des conditions habituelles de retirage, qui sont remplacées par une durée fixée de propriété des droits intellectuels.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Vais perdonado: You’re forgiven. dejadme pues.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

What wonder, then, that pity and benevolence, malice, and anger, being the same desires arising from different principles, should so totally mix together as to be undistinguishable?
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

dēofolsēoc possessed by devils, lunatic , Æ. dēofolsēocnes f. demoniacal possession .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

On the following day, Pan Ch`ao, divining his thoughts, said with uplifted hand: 'Although you did not go with us last night, I should not think, Sir, of taking sole credit for our exploit.'
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

I have omitted to mention in its place that there was some one else at the family dinner party.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Their home was the refuge of the children driven by frenzied, drunken parents from their own homes.
— from The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts

De road run right fru de plantachun, and everybody drive fru it had to pay toll.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

‘It may be the grander animal,’ muttered he; ‘but less satisfactory for domestic purposes.’
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Nor did the members of the nine regret their choice, for Dick pulled them out of several close games by his excellent twirling, which offset the errors made by his companions.
— from Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days; Or, The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son by Howard Roger Garis

Then followed an excited burst of reason and flow of words from which Denman could only gather a few disjointed phrases: "Dead easy, Jenkins—Run close and land—Casey's brother—Can hoof it to—Might get a job, which'd be better—Got a private code made up—Don't need money—Can beat his way in—My brother has a wireless—Take the dinghy; we don't need it—I'll take the chance if you have a [169] life-buoy handy—Chance of a lifetime—Who wants beach combing in Africa—You see, he'll watch the financial news—I'll stow away in her—I tell you, Jenkins, there'll be no killing.
— from The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson

The bill being read, On the clause of the bill for augmenting the pay of the soldiers from three to four dollars per month, Mr. Irvine proposed an addition of a fifth dollar, which seemed to meet the unanimous sense of the members; but Mr. Clark thought this last augmentation too great.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Others on the roll were: John Langdon, the statesman of New Hampshire; William Gray, the eminent merchant of Boston; the scholarly John Cotton Smith, of Connecticut, with the blood of the Cottons and the Mathers of colonial history; William Tighlman, the jurist of Pennsylvania; William Wirt and Bushrod Washington, of Virginia; Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, of South Carolina; Governor Worthington, of Ohio; John Bolton, of Georgia; Felix Grundy, of Tennessee; and of New York: Dr. John B. Romeyne; Colonel Richard Varick, Washington's aide; Daniel D. Tompkins, the Governor who obtained the abolition of slavery in the State; John Pintard, John Aspinwall, Jeremiah Evarts, Frederic de Peyster, George Griffin, De Witt Clinton, the Patroon Stephen van Rensselaer, and Colonel Henry Rutgers.
— from William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery by Bayard Tuckerman

Four miles more along the road, nearly all the way through farms, or by open pasture-fields, where grass and fern dispute possession, but all through fine bottom-land, varying in width from one to two or three miles across, brings you to the agency on the Middle Farm.
— from Two Years in Oregon by Wallis Nash

And if bravery consists in fighting duels, proposing the most unconstitutional acts, fearlessly oppressing the innocent, and in defying the power of a justly-enraged people, Lord Londonderry assuredly possessed "personal bravery" in an eminent degree!
— from Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume 2 (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Anne, Lady