Gallinarian Wood, in Campania ( Pineta di Castel Volturno ), i. 362 .
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

dit tout bas un passant; je vais done posséder un terrain!» Là-dessus il court, plein de joie, s'adresser au propriétaire du jardin.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

This is called private discourse.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Nothing further was necessary to fix my determination to follow her, certain that wherever she might be, I stood more chance of finding her at those places than I could possibly do at Paris.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

= KEY: Lead \v.\. SYN: Conduct, guide, precede, induce, spend, pass, commence, inaugurate, convoy, persuade, direct, influence.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

"I cannot possibly do that for you."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

at habet in coelis: patria dejiciet?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

To this I was silent out of partiality to my own kind; yet here I could plainly discover the true seeds of spleen, which only seizes on the lazy, the luxurious, and the rich; who, if they were forced to undergo the same regimen, I would undertake for the cure.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

What is called perception differs from sensation by the fact that the sensational ingredients bring up habitual associates—images and expectations of their usual correlates—all of which are subjectively indistinguishable from the sensation.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

You cannot--" "No, he cannot deny it," cried Pudentius, defiantly.
— from The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn

Intense cold, perfect darkness, and a persistent pressure of two or three tons to the square inch,—such, he might have argued, are the conditions under which life exists, if at all, in those dismal depths.
— from Light Science for Leisure Hours A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c. by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

The temptation to belittle even excellent work with rifle and revolver was, in Sawdy and especially in Carpy, partly due to temperament.
— from Laramie Holds the Range by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

Now for similitudes in certain printed discourses, I think all herbalists, all stories of beasts, fowls, and fishes are rifled up, that they may come in multitudes to wait upon any of our conceits, which certainly is as absurd a surfeit to the ears as is possible.
— from A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Philip Sidney

I could put down three times more stuff than he, an' not half try.
— from Teddy and Carrots: Two Merchants of Newpaper Row by James Otis

Seasons of the year were, in common parlance, denoted in accordance with this {258} system.
— from The Story of Nuremberg by Cecil Headlam

A lady, to whom I was nearly related, and with whom I lived, during her whole life, on the most brotherly terms of affection, was residing with me at the time when the work was in progress, and used to ask me, what I could possibly do to rise so early in the morning (that happening to be the most convenient to me for composition).
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott