Ten spesmiloj have approximately the value of a five-dollar gold piece, twenty marks, twenty-five francs, one pound sterling, etc.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

As such it has remained the foundation of philosophical studies in India down to the present day.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

"She's different from other people," said Jessie, watching Sara with her class.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

He was now a very energetic man indeed, with great firmness of purpose, strength of resolution, and vigour of action.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Well, that was a great favourite of poor Sir Thomas Lawrence.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The passage, that follows, full of profound sense, appears to me evidently corrupt; and in fact no writer more wants, better deserves, or is less likely to obtain, a new and more correct edition-ti oun sunienai; oti to genomenon esti theama emon, siopaesis (mallem, theama, emon sioposaes,) kai physei genomenon theoraema, kai moi genomenae
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

prōferēbant aliī purpuram, tūs aliī, gemmās aliī , V. 5, 146, they produced some of them purple, others frankincense, others precious stones .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

— solution The two pieces of brocade marked A will fit together and form one perfect square cushion top, and the two pieces marked B will form the other. 171.—THE BANNER PUZZLE.— solution
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

First, the flash of pure sensation and of real electricity.
— from Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

As a consequence the Mbau chiefs have no power to levy food or personal service from Namata.
— from The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

The illusion was almost perfect, so cleverly had the flotsam of Perceval Scrope's ancestral possessions been wedded to the jetsam gathered in curiosity shops and at country auctions—for the devotion of Scrope's friends had gone even to that length.
— from Studies in Wives by Marie Belloc Lowndes

"Among other reasons, out of consideration for our pleasant situation. Consider; duels they will not accept and in this they are right.
— from Whirlpools: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

At the risk of repetition I append this slight recapitulation: The first of the name to set foot on Puget Sound, Oregon Territory , September 25th, 1851, he then evinced the characteristics more fully developed in after years.
— from Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny

The second preferred stock went for old preferred stock and income bonds, and the new common stock exchanged for old common.
— from Railroad Reorganization by Stuart Daggett

The mere fact of remembering (or thinking one remembers), in this our terrestrial life and with our terrestrial consciousness, some detail or other of a previous terrestrial life proves little—for, for aught we know, quite apart from our psychic selves, a streak of memory of more physical origin from some ancestor may have come down even several generations, and may be surviving in one’s brain.
— from The Drama of Love and Death: A Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration by Edward Carpenter

The following, however, being obtained from an official source, may be fully relied upon as correct: The whole space between Charles Street and Tottenham Court Road is occupied by 12 different specimens, which are completed in the following order, commencing at Charles Street: viz.—40 feet of Robinson’s Parisian bitumen—24 feet laid in straight courses, and 16 feet diagonally; 74 feet of parish stone paving, 54 feet of which is laid in straight courses, the stones 9 inches deep, and the interstices filled up with Claridge’s asphalte; the remaining 20 feet consisting of stones only 4½ inches deep, but laid diagonally, and filled up with the same composition; 60 feet of the Bastenne and Gaujac bitumen, partly laid in straight courses, and partly diagonally: page 80 p. 80 135 feet of parish stone paving, divided into three sections, in the following order—1st, 70 feet of dressed Aberdeen granite, with concrete bottom, and the joints grouted with lime and sand; 2nd, 40 feet of the same, laid diagonally; and 3rd, 25 feet of dressed Aberdeen granite, without concrete bottom, the joints filled in with fine gravel; this is followed by 50 feet of the Scotch asphaltum, which is entirely the produce of this country, laid down in straight courses: 60 feet of Mr. Stead’s pavement, of wooden blocks, of a sexagonal form, 12 inches deep, divided into three compartments, one prepared with Kyan’s patent, part dipped in, and joints run with asphalte, and part without any preparation whatever: the last specimen, at Tottenham Court Road, is 60 feet of the Val de Travers bitumen, a portion of which consists of square blocks, laid in straight courses, and the remainder consisting of a layer of clean Guernsey chippings cemented together by boiling asphalte, run among them nearly to the surface, and a face made with asphalte, merely showing the chippings, here and there, in patches.
— from Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton