[1] I merely call attention in this chapter to a subject with which I have dealt at greater length in my Letter to M. d'Alembert .
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Good lack, I must humour the conceit, too—there is no other way—faith, he would order me to the Tower, else!”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

We say that God fears, that God is angry, that God loves, Immortalia mortali sermone notantes: “Giving to things immortal mortal names.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

[ lênis , gentle ], compared lênius, lênissimê , gently Lentulus, -i , m. Lentulus , a Roman family name leô, -ônis , m. lion Lernaeus, -a, -um , adj.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

A gentleman laughed in my face.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

I was so rejoiced to have at last got rid of this uncanny old man that I ran leaping and bounding down to the sea shore, where, by the greatest good luck, I met with some mariners who had anchored off the island to enjoy the delicious fruits, and to renew their supply of water.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

This subject I have treated at greater length in my treatise on 'Roman Questions.' XX.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavoured to bring back with a strict hand such as had been straying through imagination’s boundless and trackless waste, into the safe fold of common sense.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Ban-uk kaáyu ang sagbut sa ákung pilapilan, Weeds are growing lush in my rice field.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

My gracious lord, I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful: In every one of these no man is free
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Give me your patience, sister, while I frame Exact in capitals your golden name, Or sue the fair Apollo, and he will Rouse from his heavy slumber and instil Great love in me for thee and Poesy.
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

We must at once modify all our plans because if in the field where we had decided to land there is a green light it means that nearby there are Austrians and if we do not wish to be captured at once we must attempt a landing in some other place.
— from The Flying Spy by Camillo De Carlo

The good life in my view, is the life of a gentleman.
— from A Modern Symposium by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson

O'er me, like a regal tent, Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent, Purple-curtained, fringed with gold, Looped in many a wind-swung fold; While for music came the play Of the pied frogs' orchestra; And, to light the noisy choir, Lit the fly his lamp of fire.
— from Reminiscent Poems Part 3 From Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

Mosscrop’s smooth-shaven and somewhat sallow visage had gradually lost its melancholy aspect.
— from March Hares by Harold Frederic

Industries: petroleum, natural gas, light industries, mining, electrical, petrochemical, food processing Industrial production growth rate: 7% (1999 est.) Electricity - production: 23.215 billion kWh (1999) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 99.14% hydro: 0.86% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1999) Electricity - consumption: 21.613 billion kWh (1999) Electricity - exports: 307 million kWh (1999) Electricity - imports: 330 million kWh (1999) Agriculture - products: wheat, barley, oats, grapes, olives, citrus, fruits; sheep, cattle Exports: $19.6 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

And when the soul, interiorly enlightened, feels itself thus attracted by the fire of God's great love, it melts completely in its ardor.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various