Haply this life is best, If quiet life be best; sweeter to you That have a sharper known; well corresponding With your stiff age.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Miembro don Julio Calcaño de una familia verdaderamente ilustre de Venezuela, porque ha dado a su patria numerosos individuos que la han enaltecido con sus talentos, con sus virtudes, con los servicios valiosos que le prestaran, ha representado dignamente, en larga vida enaltecida por grandes merecimientos, el lucido papel a que le llamaban los precedentes de su casa, y a los timbres de sus predecesores añadió los que supo conquistar el propio valer....
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Then gently raising the trap door and catching hold of the sides, I quietly let myself drop into the apartment below.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

"In quietly lying and contemplating a wall-paper pattern, sometimes it is the ground, sometimes the design, which is clearer and consequently comes nearer....
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Well, all I can say is, Madame Mantalini, that I quite love the poor girl; and that if she was twice as indifferent-looking, and
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

This morning at day light the indians got up and crouded around the fire, J. Fields who was on post had carelessly laid his gun down behid him near where his brother was sleeping, one of the indians the fellow to whom I had given the medal last evening sliped behind him and took his gun and that of his brothers unperceived by him, at the same instant two others advanced and seized the guns of Drewyer and myself, J. Fields seing this turned about to look for his gun and saw the fellow just runing off with her and his brothers he called to his brother who instantly jumped up and pursued the indian with him whom they overtook at the distance of 50 or 60 paces from the camp sized their guns and rested them from him and R Fields as he seized his gun stabed the indian to the heart with his knife the fellow ran about 15 steps and fell dead; of this I did not know untill afterwards, having recovered their guns they ran back instantly to the camp; Drewyer who was awake saw the indian take hold of his gun and instantly jumped up and sized her and rested her from him but the indian still retained his pouch, his jumping up and crying damn you let go my gun awakened me I jumped up and asked what was the matter which I quickly learned when I saw drewyer in a scuffle with the indian for his gun.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

It is questions like these we must answer if we are to justify free institutions.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

A mon avis, il est important que les internautes comprennent que le copyright est un contrat social conçu pour le bien public - incluant à la fois les auteurs et les lecteurs.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

New South Wales is quite literally regarded as a place where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest; that is, a paradise for uncles who have turned dishonest and for nephews who are born tired.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

His room was hung round with boxing, sporting, and dancing pictures, presented to him by comrades as they retired from the regiment, and married and settled into quiet life.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

He began to laugh inwardly, quivering like a mould of jelly, but the joke was too big to remain inside him.
— from Fore! by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

When he acknowledged that he was a fugitive, intending to take refuge in Canada, it was deemed imprudent for him to remain under the roof of a person so widely known as an abolitionist; but a very benevolent and intelligent Quaker lady, near eighty years old, named Margaret Shoemaker, gladly gave him shelter.
— from Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life by Lydia Maria Child

The enagua or petticoat, reaching about halfway between the knee and ancle, displays their well-turned limbs, destitute of stockings, and their tiny feet, thrust into quaint little shoes ( zapatitos ) of Cinderellan dimensions.
— from Life in the Far West by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton

—The base of support which quadrupeds have, viz., the space included between their four feet, is quite large; and this is one reason that they walk so soon after birth.
— from Science for the School and Family, Part I. Natural Philosophy by Worthington Hooker

[319] When Saul asked the important question, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”
— from A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

I don't think I quite like it."
— from The Manor House School by Angela Brazil

[100] The pious Romanist, Champlain, thus details the inconveniences caused by the different creeds of the Frenchmen composing the expedition of De Monts: "Il se trouva quelque chose à redire en cette entreprise, qui est en ce que deux religions contraires ne font jamais un grand fruit pour la gloire de Dieu parmi les infidèles que l'on veut convertir.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton

It is extraordinary how I took to liking that fellow; I quite long to have him back among us.”
— from Ernest Bracebridge: School Days by William Henry Giles Kingston