As a scholar he displayed no remarkable amount of capacity, but was fond of general reading and much given to versification.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

[EN] Bill Dunlap (Paris & San Francisco) #Founder of Global Reach, a methodology for companies to expand their Internet presence through a multilingual website Founder of Global Reach, Bill Dunlap specialized in international online marketing and e-commerce among mainly American companies.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Creator of The Human-Languages Page (who became iLoveLanguages in 2001) and The Internet Dictionary Project Alain Clavet * (Ottawa) / Policy analyst with the Office of the Commissioner of the Official Languages in Canada Jean-Pierre Cloutier * (Montreal) / Editor of Chroniques de Cybérie, a weekly report of Internet news Kushal Dave * (Yale) / Student at Yale University Bruno Didier * (Paris) / Webmaster of the Institute Pasteur Library Catherine Domain * (Paris) / Founder of the Ulysses Bookstore (Librairie Ulysse), the oldest travel bookstore in the world Helen Dry (Michigan) / Moderator of The Linguist List Bill Dunlap (Paris & San Francisco) / Founder of Global Reach, a methodology for companies to expand their Internet presence through a multilingual website Jacques Gauchey * (San Francisco) / Specialist in the information technology industry, "facilitator" between the United States and Europe, and journalist Marcel Grangier * (Bern) / Head of the French Section of the Swiss Federal Government's Central Linguistic Services
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Is that “ high and sacred Fatherhood of God ” revealed anywhere more fully and plainly than in this parable?
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

The bullet struck the cliff close to my own head, scattering the fragments of gypsum rock about my ears, and then fell, flattened like a Spanish dollar, at my feet.
— from The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid

“And of rich and goodly trees there grew a boundless maze, Rich grapes and apples bright, and figs of golden rays, And many other fruits beyond my skill to praise, But none that turneth sour, and none that e’er decays.
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss

cried Pauline, stopping short for a moment in the middle of the pavement to gaze at her father with her dawn-grey eyes, full of gentle radiance and morning coolness.
— from Monsieur Bergeret in Paris by Anatole France

The fury of Glengarry … rapidly abated. Macaulay.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

I was full of growing resentment against my partner.
— from Combed Out by F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Voigt

The slope for a couple of thousand feet was steep enough; but it was formed of granite rocks all moss-covered, so that the footing could not be determined, and at short intervals we nearly went out of sight in holes under the treacherous carpeting.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Charles Dudley Warner

There are two kinds of lifted-up hearts; one when pride, self-sufficiency, and forgetfulness of God, raise a man to a giddy height, from which God's judgments are sure to cast him down and break him in the fall; one when a lowly heart is raised to high courage and devotion, and 'set on high,' because it fears God's name.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren