His first profession enabled him to extend his researches, and while he perfected himself in [20] science he continued to follow the arduous and thorny path of the professor.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

Four persons entered, led by General Ivolgin, in a state of great excitement, and talking eloquently.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Few persons, except professional writers, have the least idea of the value of words and the effect that they produce, and the thoughtless letters of emotional women and underbred men add sensation to news items in the press almost daily.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The front door was kept shut, and the step was so clean that evidently but few persons entered over its sanded surface.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

That good man, who, when I was young, gelded so many noble and ancient statues in his great city, that they might not corrupt the sight of the ladies, according to the advice of this other ancient worthy: “Flagitii principium est, nudare inter gives corpora,” [“‘Tis the beginning of wickedness to expose their persons among the citizens”—Ennius, ap.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“All this time Willie kept up a constant correspondence with Jeanie Burns, and he used to talk to me of her coming out, and his future plans, every night when our work was done.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

FIRST POEMS EVENING
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

( c. ) in hāc fortūnā perūtilis eius opera esset , Att.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

In fact one of the most serious newspapers in Manila had devoted to Ibarra an article on its front page, entitled, “Imitate him!” heaping him with praise and giving him some advice.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

[338] esse debeat, regnare, sed ei, qui id facere possit, esse utile, qua hunc obiurgatione aut quo potius convicio a tanto errore coner avellere?
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Preparations were made for the obsequies and a funeral pyre erected.
— from Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas

Wrath —Anger, rage, choler, fury, passion, exasperation.
— from The New Century Standard Letter-Writer Business, Family and Social Correspondence, Love-Letters, Etiquette, Synonyms, Legal Forms, Etc. by Alfred B. Chambers

II Though unconscious that anxious, yearning eyes are following them, both Nancy Dampier and Gerald Burton feel an instinctive desire to get away from the house, and as far as may be from possible eavesdroppers.
— from The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Miss A. E. Mathews Immigrant Home: Miss Ellen Stenman Woman's Board of Home Missions, Presbyterian Church, U. S. A. Missionary: Miss Teresa Fransee Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society Missionaries:
— from Ports of Entry: Missionary Herald by Council of Women for Home Missions

Accordingly, many of her relations being connected with the Court or holding official positions, she amassed a fund of interesting recollections and characteristic anecdotes, some gathered from personal experience, others handed down by old friends of the family.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

Mollivit aversos Penates Farre pio et salienta mica.
— from Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang

This illustrates one of the motives which, in our stage of development, impels us to arrange that, so far possible, every individual shall enjoy equal privileges in society.
— from The Man from Mars: His Morals, Politics and Religion by William Simpson

Don't turn your head towards them; if you like to listen to love tales, you'll meet fond pairs enough in this walk.
— from A Bold Stroke for a Husband: A Comedy in Five Acts by Hannah Cowley

There are many other herbs, food plants, etc., that should not have waited for the Spanish invasion on the one hand, or the Dutch and Portuguese navigator along the Chinese coast on the other.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1898 Volume 54, November 1898 by Various