Ayaw na lang pagsalig nga matúman ang tanan mung súgù, limpangug kaáyu nang tawhána, Don’t expect that man to carry out your instructions properly, he is so stupid.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

You write that in Petersburg he is spoken of as one of the most active, cultivated, and capable of the young men.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

comp. , inner, S; inerere , pl. , H; innresst , superl.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

In the process of voting the individual places himself in subordination to a power of which he is a part, but in this way, that it is left to his own volition whether he will belong to the superior or the inferior, i.e., the outvoted party.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I pitied her in secret, and led the conversation back to Nancy.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It proves him, in short, everything that I had been used to wish to believe him, and feared he was not.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

This afternoon Mr. Waith was with me, and did tell me much concerning the Chest, which I am resolved to look into; and I perceive he is sensible of Sir W. Batten’s carriage; and is pleased to see any thing work against him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In person, he is short and stout, with large, fat, blue eyes, sandy hair and whiskers, a wide but pleasing mouth, fine teeth, and I think a Roman nose.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

What he strives to preserve, in preserving himself, is something which he never has been at any particular moment.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Vexed and annoyed, I placed her in such a position that she found herself at bay, but, making a violent effort, she managed to change her position and debarred me from making any further attempts.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Another severe illness prostrated him in September, but the necessity of work allowed no time for such distractions.
— from The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier

Then, half in policy, half in superstition, he resolved to follow his father in his death.
— from A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

“It is purty, haint it?” said the farmer, looking around, and there was a light of gratification in his eye.
— from The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead

at length I persuaded her into saying.
— from The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance by Richard Le Gallienne

They likewise took notice of the heavy duty on salt, used in curing the fish for sale, and the beef for provisions to the mariners; a circumstance of itself sufficient to discourage adventurers from embarking in a commerce which, at best, yields but very slender profits to the trade in particular, how important soever it might prove to the community in general.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I puzzled him, I suppose.
— from The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy

For having paus'd to recollect, 175 And on his past success reflect, T' examine and consider why, And whence, and how, they came to fly, And when no Devil had appear'd, What else, it cou'd be said, he fear'd; 180 It put him in so fierce a rage, He once resolv'd to re-engage; Toss'd like a foot-ball back again, With shame and vengeance, and disdain.
— from Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars by Samuel Butler

Mr. Lincoln, in giving his impressions derived from the interview, says that “while Lord Salisbury did not intimate what would probably be the nature of his reply, there was certainly nothing unfavorable in his manner of receiving the suggestion”; and he follows this with these significant words: “If the matter had been entirely new and dissociated with its previous history, I should have felt from his tone that the idea of arbitration in some form, to put an end to the boundary dispute, was quite agreeable to him.” 246 On the 26th of May, 1890, Lord Salisbury addressed a note to Mr. Lincoln, in which his Lordship stated that her Majesty’s Government was at that moment in communication with the Venezuelan minister in Paris, who had been authorized to express the desire of his Government for the renewal of diplomatic relations, and to discuss the conditions on which it might be effected; that the terms on which her Majesty’s Government considered that a settlement of the question in issue between the two countries might be made, had been communicated to Venezuela’s representative; that his reply was still awaited, and that the British Government “would wish to have the opportunity of examining that reply, and ascertaining what prospect it would afford of an adjustment of existing differences, before considering the expediency of having recourse to the good offices of a third party.”
— from Presidential Problems by Grover Cleveland

In France, at least, the good and bad spirits of equality agree in exacting adherence to it: on this point, the French are unanimous; no article of their social code is more cherished by them; this one flatters their amour-propre and tickles their imagination; it exalts hope, nourishes illusion, intensifies the energy and enjoyment of life.—Thus far, the principle has remained inert, powerless, held in suspension in the air, in the great void of speculative declarations and of constitutional promises.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine