Others quarrel with what they take for low and mean expressions, sometimes through a false delicacy and refinement, oftener from an ignorance of the graces of the original, and then triumph in the awkwardness of their own translations: this is the conduct of Perrault in his Parallels.
— from The Iliad by Homer

and then we might hope for larger and more extensive success.
— from The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various

I felt less at my ease, seated now for a more or less moderate conference, than I had been on my feet, bearing my part in a quarrel.
— from In the Valley by Harold Frederic

In this country the drawing-car fiend expects twenty-five cents for a day's journey; fifty cents to a dollar for longer and more extended service.
— from The Complete Bachelor: Manners for Men by Walter Germain

I shuffle among the grass and the fallen leaves, and my eyes scarce know the stag from the doe.
— from Northern Lights, Complete by Gilbert Parker

(From Lenoir, ‘Architecture Monastique.’) Enlarged scale.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

Something in my appearance one day suggested the thought to her, I am sure, for looking at me earnestly, she said: "You are not happy, my birdie, I fear.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol. 6, No. 4, November 1899 In Natural Colors by Various