It is high time that a sage should arise to expound how the discerning few—those who have the wit and the will (both must concur to the great end) may live—LIVE—not like him who buys and balances himself by the book of the groveller who wrote “How to Live upon Fifty Pounds a Year”—(O shame to manhood!)—but live, I say—“be free and merry”—“laugh and grow fat”—exchange the courtesies of life—be a pattern of the “minor morals”—and yet: all this without a doit in bank, bureau, or breeches’ pocket.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

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— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

After these considerations the king resolved to dismiss this army from any expedition, and to give every man leave to return home; but proclaimed, at the same time, that next summer the people over the whole country would be called out in a general levy, to march immediately against the Swedish king, and punish him for his want of faith.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

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— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

No one wishes to employ anyone who is so sensitive that he is obliged to be on his guard every moment lest he wound him or touch a sore spot.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Sur ce site, il tient à jour en anglais et en gaélique European Minority Languages, une liste de langues minoritaires - ou rendues minoritaires - classée par ordre alphabétique et par famille linguistique.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager won my reverence, while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And then, as I suddenly remembered that the Koltykwerps were strictly a meat-eating people, that only meat was to be had in their chill domain, quarried almost like marble itself from nature’s great refrigerators, a gasp escaped my lips, and I whispered,— “Oh, he must die!
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

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— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

He called out— “Good evening, Monsieur Lheureux!
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

"Everyone who breaks the law has a good excuse, my lad," he said.
— from The Boy Scout Aviators by George Durston

Vos femmes suaient la santé, Rouge de sang blanche de graisse, Elles menaient les ruts en laisse Avec des airs de royauté."
— from Modernities by Horace Barnett Samuel

So you are going to take Welter's wife back into your good graces, eh, my lady?"
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

The Fascination of London THE STRAND DISTRICT BY SIR WALTER BESANT AND G. E. MITTON LONDON ADAM & CHARLES BLACK 1903 Published July, 1902 Reprinted, with corrections, April, 1903
— from The Strand District by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

Surely Alexandre Dumas the elder knew a beautiful face when he saw it; he says: “ La Grèce, c’est Galatée encore marbre; la Géorgie, c’est Galatée devenue femme .”
— from The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of travel in a land of women, wine, and song by John Oliver Wardrop

I would give even my life to ruin you!" "Don't be too sure you may not yet have to pay that price," Dave said grimly.
— from The Trail of the Axe: A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum