He made his face into fantastic grimaces until he looked like a pictured devil on a Japanese kite.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

forzar i force; ( Gall.? )
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Fullest Indemnities from Germany.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

They staid all the afternoon till night, and then after I had discoursed an hour with Sir W. Warren plainly declaring my resolution to desert him if he goes on to join with Castle, who and his family I, for great provocation, love not, which he takes with some trouble, but will concur in everything with me, he says.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

These houses, solid marble palaces though they be, are in many cases of a dull pinkish color, outside, and from pavement to eaves are pictured with Genoese battle scenes, with monstrous Jupiters and Cupids, and with familiar illustrations from Grecian mythology.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

On reaching Fayetteville I found General Slocum already in possession with the Fourteenth Corps, and all the rest of the army was near at hand.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Whatever turns the soul inward on itself, tends to concentre its forces, and to fit it for greater and stronger flights of science.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

[4] en familia, in family groups .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

There was nothing degrading, Franklin thought, in the idea of the magistrate returning to the mass of the people; for in free governments rulers are the servants, and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

And Nat, grown ten years younger—a mere boy in fact—showed Masie how to throw little leaden weights down the throat of a small cast-iron frog, and Felix mixed the salad and served it, Masie changing the dishes and running back to the house for fresh ones, while Fudge, in frenzied glee, scurried over the soft earth as if he had suddenly been seized with St. Vitus's dance.
— from Felix O'Day by Francis Hopkinson Smith

After a short practice in walking I attained a tolerable steadiness; and as my journey was to be on foot, I found great advantage in the reduction of my weight, for I soon was able to move along with wonderful speed, and scarcely ever was weary.
— from Adventures in the Moon, and Other Worlds by Russell, John Russell, Earl

What art, what music, coming down the ages, from Italy, from Germany, and what pictures from dim frescoes, and long-forgotten paintings hid in niche and cloister, were interpreted in these poems!
— from The Brownings, Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting

The potato crop, on which these rural populations so largely depend for winter food, is fortunately good and abundant, and little else but potato and maize seem to be grown here.
— from Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards

He also derives from it far greater advantages, realizes far more considerable profits; the likeness is moreover all the closer, since he looks upon his vanquished enemy sometimes as a prey, sometimes as a slave or a thing for sale or barter.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

There was Queen Anne architecture, and Queen Anne furniture, and Queen Anne religion, and the Queen Anne fashion in fine gentlemen.
— from The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

"Early on the morning of the 21st (Sunday), we heard the enemy's guns open from the heights north of Bull Run, from which they had opened on the 18th, and I soon received orders for the movement of my brigade.... "Upon arriving there (McLean's Ford), I found General Jones had returned to the intrenchments with his brigade, and I was informed by him that General Beauregard had directed that I should join him (General Beauregard) with my brigade....
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

To-day the nebular hypothesis in the Laplacian form is fast giving place to quite different conceptions, in which solid particles, and not gaseous ones, are conceived to have built up the lithosphere.
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs