[A13] have a merienda cena.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

IMG In short, if (as Lucian fancies Menippus to have done heretofore,) any man could now again look down from the orb of the moon, he would see thick swarms as it were of flies and gnats, that were quarrelling with each other, justling, fighting, fluttering, skipping, playing, just new produced, soon after decaying, and then immediately vanishing; and it can scarce be thought how many tumults and tragedies so inconsiderate a creature as man does give occasion to, and that in so short a space as the small span of life; subject to so many casualties, that the sword, pestilence, and other epidemic accidents, shall many times sweep away whole thousands at a brush.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

Mr. Pullet was nervous about his investments, and did not see how a man could have any security for his money unless he turned it into land.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Both hybrids and mongrels can be reduced to either pure parent form, by repeated crosses in successive generations with either parent.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Every happiness which can exist in combination is already present; nothing could be added without taking away from what there is; he is as happy as man can be.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I never had a more convincing proof than on this occasion, of the goodness of my Theresa’s heart; she was more shocked at the behavior of Grimm than at my infidelity, and I received nothing from her but tender reproaches, in which there was not the least appearance of anger.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

At first, indeed, while the memory of their last hour at Monte Carlo still held the full heat of his indignation, he had anxiously watched for her return; but she had disappointed him by lingering in England, and when she finally reappeared it happened that business had called him to the West, whence he came back only to learn that she was starting for Alaska with the Gormers.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

en have a more commanding way, you know; it is easier for them; besides, if you ever looked full in his eye, it’s peculiar,—that eye,—and if he speaks decidedly, there’s a kind of flash.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

After the lapse of a week, preparations were completed to renew operations, and a higher and more commanding character given to them.
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham

Her face had grown pale and thin during her long confinement between the walls of this house; yet it was a happier and more contented face than it had been wont to be in the days when she lived in luxurious idleness at her mother's side.
— from The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London by Evelyn Everett-Green

'You left her at Madame Catherine's?'
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman

And once acquired no sort of information ever leaves him, for he has a memory quite as marvelous as any other of his altogether marvelous characteristics.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

When we are looking at or thinking of a tree, we have a mental cognition of a tree; and this idea of a tree is said to be the psychical side of that which on its physical side has been transmitted to our brain by molecular changes through our visual nerves.
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

III I would fain have had further speech with the damsel, to know more fully what was intended towards me; 'twas plain that she was of much consideration with these ragged ruffians, with whom her lightest word was law; and in truth I wondered not at their tame submission, for though her age was, as I guessed, not above twenty years, she had a most commanding and imperial mien, and a manner of speech that enforced obedience.
— from A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight by Herbert Strang

Let me tell you: This vessel has a miscellaneous cargo aboard, and is bound on a trading voyage among the islands of the South Pacific.
— from A Sailor in Spite of Himself by Harry Castlemon

because—well—because I am a hostage, a man condemned to death if he stir, a prisoner as much as if I were chained to the walls of this house.'
— from Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century by Vernon Lee

All national histories are merely chapters in the larger one.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

"So you're home again," Mr. Crewe observed, his eyes still bearing witness to the indubitable fact.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill