Quam ob rem id quidem non dubium est, quin illa benignitas, quae constet ex opera et industria, et honestior sit et latius pateat et possit prodesse pluribus; non numquam tamen est largiendum, nec hoc benignitatis genus omnino repudiandum est et saepe idoneis hominibus indigentibus de re familiari impertiendum, sed diligenter atque moderate; multi enim patrimonia effuderunt inconsulte largiendo.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The presentation would be itself sufficient guarantee of respectability everywhere exacted.
— from England and Canada A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster, with Historical Notes by Sandford Fleming

I picked up every detail of our parting and held it pressed against my heart, each grain of red earth, each flash of mica in the road.
— from Woman by Magdeleine Marx

But only such substances are completely absorbed from the water as are indispensable requisites for vegetable growth; others remain either entirely or for the most part in a state of solution."
— from Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876 by Robert Flint

The Barbarian, when he has graduated to be a "pragmatist," struts like a nigger in evening clothes, and believes himself superior to the gift of reason, etc., etc.
— from Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd

But what is here being insisted upon is that none of these things has immediately to do with God or religious emotion, except only the general will to do right in God’s service.
— from God, the Invisible King by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The circle of the public gardens of Reisenburg exhibited exactly, although upon a smaller scale, the same fashions and the same frivolities, the same characters and the same affectations, as the Hyde Park of London, or the Champs Elysées of Paris, the Prater of Vienna, the Corso of Rome or Milan, or the Cascine of Florence.
— from Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield