Marescalchi was accompanied by his brother, a priest, whom I found decidedly learned for his age.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In France, where remnants of every age are still so strangely mingled in the opinions and tastes of the people, women commonly receive a reserved, retired, and almost cloistral education, as they did in aristocratic times; and then they are suddenly abandoned, without a guide and without assistance, in the midst of all the irregularities inseparable from democratic society.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

A prince, who should enact that a certain proportion of his taxes should be paid in a paper money of a certain kind, might thereby give a certain value to this paper money, even though the term of its final discharge and redemption should depend altogether upon the will of the prince.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Then like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound: It flung the blood into my head, And I fell down in a swound.
— from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But at that instant the glass broke and the poison spirted on the horse, and it was so strong that the animal immediately fell down dead.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Even in the unwooded parts, where the horizon is large, here and there against the background of a dark and distant mass of trees, now leafless or still keeping their summer foliage unchanged, a double row of orange-red chestnuts seemed, as in a picture just begun, to be the only thing painted, so far, by an artist who had not yet laid any colour on the rest, and to be offering their cloister, in full daylight, for the casual exercise of the human figures that would be added to the picture later on.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

We will add this in general, touching the affection of envy, that, of all other affections, it is the most importune and continual; for of other affections there is occasion given but now and then; and therefore it was well said, “Invidia festos dies non agit:” 122 for it is ever working upon some or other.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

dilinyadur n draftsman, instrument for drafting.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Unfortunately this arrangement turned out ill for Daturi.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In spite of my hurry, I felt deeply interested.
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 3 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

traza es propia A la ingeniousa fabula de España , No qual dicen sus emulos impropia.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

It may be wondered why the Sierra Leonean, who alone among the West Africans is an English-speaking negro, should be worse than his more barbarian neighbours; but I believe the solution may be found in the fact that [Pg 14] the large proportion of slaves landed in former days at Sierra Leone from captured slavers were so-called Eboes, from the tribes of the Niger delta; which tribes all ethnologists are agreed in describing as among the lowest of the African races, and which, it may be remarked, are even at the present day addicted to cannibalism.
— from The History of the First West India Regiment by A. B. (Alfred Burdon) Ellis

[pg II-433] Page, Henry A., letters to, stating a government might be neutral, but no man could be, I 361; on illusions as to neutrality and the peace proposals, II 152 Page, Miss Katharine A., arrival in London, I 134; married in the chapel Royal, II 87; see also , Loring, Mrs. Charles G. Page, Lewis, leaves Virginia to settle in North Carolina, I 3 Page, Logan Waller, has proper perspective of European situation, II 176 Page, Mary E., letter to, II 376 Page, Ralph W., letters to; impressions of London life, I 161; on wartime conditions, I 352; Christmas letter, 1915, II 121; on longings for fresh Southern vegetables and fruits and farm life, II 335; on style and good writing, II 340; on the big battle, etc., II 371, 372; in praise of book on American Diplomacy, II 381; on success of our Army and Navy, II 390 Page, Mrs. Ralph W., Christmas letter to, 163 Page, Robert N., letters to, impressions of social London, I 153 Page, Thomas Nelson, Colonel House confers with in regard to peace parleys, I 434 Page, Walter Hines, impressions of his early life, 1; family an old one in Virginia and North Carolina, 3; maternal ancestry, 6; close sympathy between mother and son, 8, 11; birthplace, and date of birth, 9; recollections of the Civil War, 10; finds a market for peaches among Northern soldiers, 14; boyhood and early studies, 16; intense ambition, 20; Greek Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, 24; renewed for the next year, 27; early prejudices against Yankees, 28; travels in Germany, 1877, 30; lectures on Shakespeare, 30; teacher of English at Louisville, Ky., 32; enters journalism, 32; experience with Louisville Age , 32; reporter on, then editor of, Gazette , at St. Joseph, Mo., 33; a free lance, 34; correspondent for N.Y. World at Atlanta Exposition, 34; on the staff of N.Y. World , 35; married, 37; first acquaintance with Woodrow Wilson, 37; Americanism fully developed, 40; regard for President Cleveland, 40; founds State Chronicle at Raleigh, 42; a breaker of images—of the South, 44; the "mummy letters," 45; instrumental in establishment of State College, Raleigh, 47; with N.Y. Evening Post , 48; makes the Forum of great influence and a business success, 49; a new type of editor, 50; editor of Atlantic Monthly , 53; discovers unpublished letters of Thomas Carlyle, 60; attitude toward Spanish American War, 62; the Harper experiment, 65; joins in founding Doubleday, Page & Co., 66; his policy for the World's Work , 66; public activities, 72; in behalf of education, 72; his address, "The Forgotten Man," 74; his Creed of Democracy, 78; work with General Education Board, 85; independence as an editor, 87; severely criticizes John D. Archbold for Foraker bribery, 88; appointed by Roosevelt on Country Life Commission, 89; other public services, 89; author of "the Southerner" 90; activities in behalf of Southern agriculture and Hookworm eradication, 94; his interest in Wilson's candidacy and election, 102, et seq.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick

Sometimes de field han's had to work 'round de place at night after comin' in from de fields.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

In 1999 the population of Manhattan was nearly 25,000,000 souls, and its fire department required only three thousand firemen to operate it.
— from Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 by Arthur Bird

It became impossible for Duplessis to redeem the mortgage.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Such are Fray Luis Aliago, confessor of Philip III., Archimandrite of Sicily, and inquisitor-general, Don Rodrigo Calderon, secretary of the king, Calderon de la Barca, Antonio Carnero, secretary of the king, Philip IV., Cervantes, Geronimo de Florencia, Jesuit preacher of Philip IV., Fernando de Gamboa, one of the gentlemen of his bedchamber, Luis de Gongora, Aña de Guevarra, his nurse, Maria de Guzman, only daughter of Olivarez, Henry Philip de Guzman, his adopted son, Baltasar de Zuniga, uncle of Olivarez, Lope de Vega Carpio, Luis Velez de Guevarra, Juana de Velasco, making in all nineteen persons.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various

There was, in fact, during the middle eighties, open and undisguised warfare between red and white throughout the region whose eastern border was the Bad Lands.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn