Wholly the lightest-hearted frivolous foam of Existence; yet an artfully refined foam; pleasant were it not so costly, like that which mantles on the wine of Champagne!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Ispánis n Spanish class, language, person.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"'I never saw croup like this before,' said Susan.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And, if not, she could love me for money!
— from Carols of Cockayne The Third Edition, 1874 by Henry S. (Henry Sambrooke) Leigh

Mendoza declared that the increase of the European population in New Spain came largely after his own arrival there, in 1535, and this was probably true.
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

There is no straight clear line between the good and bad, the right and wrong.
— from Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow

For religion there is no subjective correlative less than life itself.
— from The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

I never saw Clementina looking better than she does, and they all appear to be cheerful.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

a Mind, as in a moment quite subdu’d my Heart: she had another Lady with her, whom (dogging her Coach) I found to be a Neighbour of mine, and Grand-Daughter to the Lady Youthly ; but who my Conqueror was I never since could learn.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume IV by Aphra Behn

[143] The heraldic origin of this sign, of which there are still innumerable instances all over England, is now so completely lost sight of, that in many places it passes under the ignoble appellation of the Blue Pig .
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten