I told you long ago that I had never been resigned even to the mediocrity of my powers; how could I be resigned to the loss of the one thing which had ever come to me on earth with the promise of such deep joy as would give a new and blessed meaning to the foregoing pain,–the promise of another self that would lift my aching affection int
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Entre los productos minerales son la plata, el oro, el plomo, el hierro, el cobre, el mercurio, el estaño, el azufre, el petróleo
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Subsequently he embraced Christianity, went to Rome, and was received at the college of the Neophytes, where he taught Hebrew.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

And, too, he was human, and could feel the draw of her, while his ego could not but appreciate the flattery of her kindness.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

His emperor, continued Cortes, swayed the sceptre over so many countries and kingdoms, that the people who inhabited them were of various kinds, and differed in courage and manly spirit.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Baron's Coronet : Per chevron engrailed gules and argent, three talbots' heads erased counterchanged (Duncombe).
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

To impute such a design to Lady Susan would be taking from her every claim to that excellent understanding which her bitterest enemies have never denied her; and equally low must sink my pretensions to common sense if I am suspected of matrimonial views in my behaviour to her.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Being recalled to Constantinople, he went thither, but took the field early in the spring, with the most powerful army he had ever commanded.
— from Famous Men of Ancient Times by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

But these very conditions have entailed certain drawbacks--drawbacks which Buckle would have lovingly enumerated to prove their influence upon the habits and disposition of the Tarentines.
— from Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

Devoted to metaphysical speculation, and especially fond of logical discussion, he, in his first year, printed and distributed among the authorities and members of his college a pamphlet, if that can be called a pamphlet which consisted only of two pages, in which he opposed the usual arguments for the existence of a Deity; arguments which, perhaps, the most ardent believers have equally considered inconclusive.
— from A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald

Philip Martindale, as we have said, went to bed and to sleep, forgetful of the fact of having exchanged cards with a fierce-looking dandy at the house of Sir Gilbert Sampson.
— from Rank and Talent; A Novel, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

Also has elaborate centre design.
— from Water Wonders Every Child Should Know Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice, and Rain by Jean M. (Jean May) Thompson

She laid her ear close to a crack in the logs from which she had once pushed the red mud to let in the light.
— from The Foolish Virgin by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

About this time he experienced considerable worry through being served with various writs for bills of exchange, for which he had received no consideration whatever, and which had been accumulating for many years.
— from The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol I by James Henry Mapleson

Two hundred pounds is quite large enough for the little body which he ever carries, and cares for, but to be a growing son of God he must progressively make the universe his augmented body.
— from What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Richard La Rue Swain

It was poorly acted, yet for some reason it took the town. ' Larks in Aspic , a Farcical Comedy by George Anthony,' ran for a solid three hundred nights; and before it ceased my unsuspecting uncle had closed his earthly career, leaving me with seventy thousand pounds (the bulk of it invested in India Government stock), the house in the Cromwell Road, and, lastly, in sacred trust, his faithful body-servant, William John Trewlove.
— from Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

It was the first time he had ever called her by her name.
— from Tom Grogan by Francis Hopkinson Smith