5. Lorsqu'une pensée est trop faible pour porter une expression simple, c'est la marque pour la rejeter
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Frantic Patriots pick up the grape-shots; bear them, still hot ( or seemingly so ), to the Hotel-de-Ville:—Paris, you perceive, is to be burnt!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He continued in a more agitated voice:— "My opinion is (since you ask it) that you are greatly to blame for playing pranks upon a man like Mr. Boldwood, merely as a pastime.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The example that is proposed to us for preferring private utility before faith given, has not weight enough by the circumstances they put to it; robbers have seized you, and after having made you swear to pay them a certain sum of money, dismiss you.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put up, bag. inhabit &c. (be present) 186; domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher[Fr], bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

17) suggests to his friend Papirius Paetus, under the military despotism of Caesar.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

As less reprehensible than theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money under false pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money, betrayal of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal libel, blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the high seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of unnatural vice, desertion from armed forces in the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence with the king’s enemies, impersonation, criminal assault, manslaughter, wilful and premeditated murder.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

After this preface let our law run as follows, and may fortune favour us: No landowner among the Magnetes, whose city the God is restoring and resettling—no one, that is, of the 5040 families, shall become a retail trader either voluntarily or involuntarily; neither shall he be a merchant, or do any service for private persons unless they equally serve him, except for his father or his mother, and their fathers and mothers; and in general for his elders who are freemen, and whom he serves as a freeman.
— from Laws by Plato

2. The gerund is the neuter singular of the future passive participle used as a noun, and has the same formation.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

I was looking back to the name of Doctor Mell, pleased to have discovered, in these happier circumstances, Mr. Mell, formerly poor pinched usher to my Middlesex magistrate, when Mr. Peggotty pointing to another part of the paper, my eyes rested on my own name, and I read thus: ‘TO DAVID COPPERFIELD, ESQUIRE, ‘THE EMINENT AUTHOR.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

From the time Benjamin Franklin had his office in a portion of his printing-shop to the present, we cannot find the department ever blessed with even a decent building for postal purposes until the one now occupied for that special service was erected.
— from Foot-prints of a letter carrier; or, a history of the world's correspondece by James Rees

Our future prospects press upon my heart and brain too forcibly to be neglected.
— from Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, Vol. I. by Susanna Moodie

" If all would receive this admonition and "turn away" from these powerless forms, what would become of the churches that are now extant? With the foregoing positive predictions upon this subject, and the facts before us in verification of the same, we can testify that the words of Isaiah have been fulfilled, wherein he says: "Behold the darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people;" and that nothing short of more revelation direct from heaven could place the present generation in possession of the everlasting Gospel.
— from Cowley's Talks on Doctrine by Matthias F. Cowley

Electricity - consumption: 11.2 million kWh (1999) Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1999) Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1999) Agriculture - products: fodder and vegetable crops; sheep, dairy products Exports: $7.6 million (1995) Exports - commodities: wool, hides, meat Exports - partners: UK, Japan, Chile, NZ Imports: $24.7 million (1995) Imports - commodities: fuel, food and drink, building materials, clothing Imports - partners: UK, Japan, Chile, NZ Debt - external: $NA Economic aid - recipient: $1.7 million (1995) Currency: Falkland pound (FKP) Currency code: FKP Exchange rates: Falkland pounds per US dollar - 0.6764 (January 2001), 0.6596 (2000), 0.6180 (1999), 0.6037 (1998), 0.6106 (1997), 0.6403 (1996); note - the Falkland pound is at par with the British pound Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

And lastly (pardon me, if I speak too great a word, as it may seem to some to be borne), all things considered; that is, his own former profaneness, poverty, unlearnedness, together with his great natural parts, the great change made by grace, and his long imprisonment, and the great maturity in grace and preaching he attained to, I say our deceased Bunyan hath not left in England, or the world, his equal behind him, as I know of.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan