" Fred, in spite of his irritation, had kindness enough in him to be a little sorry for the unloved, unvenerated old man, who with his dropsical legs looked more than usually pitiable in walking.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

We conceived a very unfavorable opinion of this Miss Anthony when she performed in this city on a former occasion, but we confess that, after listening attentively to her discourse last evening, we were inexpressibly disgusted with the impudence and impiety evinced in her lecture.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

But the prince was the last of the line and he died last week.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

How David Laid Siege To Jerusalem; And When He Had Taken The City, He Cast The Canaanites Out Of It, And Brought In The Jews To Inhabit Therein.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

“The heifer thinks it not a shame to take Her lusty sire upon her willing back: The horse his daughter leaps, goats scruple not T’ increase the herd by those they have begot; And birds of all sorts do in common live, And by the seed they have conceived conceive.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

At this thought, I turned my face aside from the lovely sky of eve and lonely vale of Morton—I say lonely , for in that bend of it visible to me there was no building apparent save the church and the parsonage, half-hid in trees, and, quite at the extremity, the roof of Vale Hall, where the rich Mr. Oliver and his daughter lived.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Let first the herald due libation pay To Jove, who guides the wanderer on his way: Then set the genial banquet in his view, And give the stranger-guest a stranger's due."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

I consented, but when his mother heard what was the matter with him, she said it would be much better to leave him as he was, as this was the third time he had been in this condition, and that to have him cured was a waste of money, as no sooner was he well than he began his dissipated life afresh.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Himmelsschrift sky-writing hinaufsetzen write up hinauftreiben to force up hinausgeschobene Zahlung deferred payment hinausgezögerte Pensionierung deferred retirement hinlangen (ARBEITSÖKONOMIE) transport empty Hinsicht regard hinsichtlich concerning Hintergrund background Hintergrundinformation background information Hinterland hinterland hinterlegen lodge hinterlegen; deponieren lodge Hinterlegung einer Eingabe filing of a petition Hinterlegung einer Sicherheit deposit of a security Hinterlegung eines Antrags filing of an application Hinterlegung zur Sicherheit collateral security Hinterlegungsschein certificate of deposit Hinterlegungsschein letter of deposit Hinterlegungsschein receipt of deposit Hinterlegungsschein warrant of deposit Hinterlegungsschein
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

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— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

Accustomed to full measure of it in her daily life, she sorely missed it now.
— from 'Tween Snow and Fire: A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford

With wondrous strength she holds him down, “Let go (he cries)
— from Poems by Crocket McElroy

Henry Denvil lost and won with the veins growing knotted and prominent in forehead and temple, and his color deepening from red to crimson.
— from Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 by Various

But he did lie down at last.
— from The Deep Sea's Toll by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

Then he drifts lazily during the summer, fishing, trapping, stealing and making his way to warmer climes as winter approaches.
— from Waterways of Westward Expansion - The Ohio River and its Tributaries by Archer Butler Hulbert

But Mr. R. being resolved to try her a little further, made a sign to the Maid to leave the Chamber; she obey’d him, and he then again fell to wooing it with his Mistress; who although she gave him no answer for a long time, yet she thought the more and paid it with thinking, and considering the case truly as it stood in every respect, he over-ruled and overcame her; whether he gave her then an earnest penny (as he was like enough to do) or no, I know not; but he keeping her company for some hours, and by her consent getting a Coach, he clapt her into it; and going to the next Church, sent for a Parson, and there that was done in earnest, that had been so well presented in jest; and the next 253 night he did lie with her; and that he might be sure to have Witnesses of his being in bed with her, several of their acquaintance were admitted into the Chamber.
— from The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants: The Fourth Part by Francis Kirkman