CHAPTER V. Il veut faire secher de la neige au four et la vendre pour du sel blanc.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

La finesse n'est ni une trop bonne ni une très mauvaise qualité: elle flotte entre le vice et la vertu; il n'y a point de rencontre où elle ne puisse, et peut-être où elle ne doive être suppléée par la prudence —Finesse is neither a very good nor yet a very bad quality.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Capt. George—for so he was styled in these parts, although, as we shall see, not a professional navigator—was a combined nautical and mechanical genius, who vigorously urged on Government and the forwarding community the adoption of a scheme of his for enabling loaded vessels to overcome the rapids of the St. Lawrence, and reach the upper ports without breaking bulk.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

fōrmā expetendā līberālem virginem , Pl. Per.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Nathan W. Helm W Helm. Endnote: “Ghosts” of first edition Long Vowel before -gn
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

y hasta gramatical; Francia era la vida triunfante, sin prohibiciones ni cortapisas;
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Dans l’âge de la force et dans la plénitude de leurs facultés, elle les vouait, à son choix, soit au travail, soit au vice; au travail les natures grossières; au vice, les natures plus délicates, nourries pour le plaisir du maître, et qui lorsqu’il en était las, étaient reléguées dans la prostitution a son profit.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

The garment is sometimes represented as quite plain, in other cases it has a scolloped fringe or border, while in its most elaborate form it consists of three, four, or five horizontal flounces, each lined vertically and scolloped
— from A History of Sumer and Akkad An account of the early races of Babylonia from prehistoric times to the foundation of the Babylonian monarchy by L. W. (Leonard William) King

Et voyant Madame ma sœur en telle pitié, etant en telle douleur, Madame, que votre Majesté peult estimer pour ly avoir faict une telle outrage que de luy oter son filz, et la voyant porter tel desplaisir, moy que m'estait deliberé m'en partir, ne la puis delaisser.
— from Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 by Julia Cartwright

‘ Dire simplement que la vertu est vertu parce qu’elle est bonne en son fonds, et le vice tout au contraire, ce n’est pas les faire connoitre. ’
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

A capitalist who had subscribed for the children and tomb of General Foy exclaimed:— "Like Virtue's self, a crime has its degrees.
— from The Red Inn by Honoré de Balzac

Grant Knauff, Jun., F. M. E., R. H., Clara Rompano, Harold Simonds, R. C. Wente, Dudley S. Steele, A. D. J., Isabelle Willis, B. F. E. Lantie V. Blum, Harry B. Reese, and V. J. Smith. Want Corner.
— from Harper's Round Table, May 14, 1895 by Various

In small communes, for example, like Villeneuve, there are features of practical socialism, which have existed apparently from the earliest times.
— from A Little Swiss Sojourn by William Dean Howells

`Fisheries Exhibition Literature,' vol.
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

Fecha en la villa de madrid a xvi dias del mes de noviembre de myll e quinientos e quarenta y cinco años.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

Perianthium inferius (exterius), bivalvis, neuter; valvula exterior septemnervis, exteriori glumae similis textura forma et longitudine; valvula interior (superior)
— from Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847 by Charles Sturt