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— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

por la mano de [3] los gobiernos y de los pueblos europeos, y después de abolida la autoridad de los gobiernos europeos en América, por la acción inmediata y directa de la sociedad europea, que no ha sido sino más grande desde que ha sido libre su juego trasatlántico.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Look up a few more such expressions in your dictionary; do, you’ll make a grand effect!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ay, if you dare do yourself a profit and a right.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“If you do dislike my disgusting behaviour, why have you come here?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

‘What are your thoughts, then?’ ‘I’m thinking that when you rise from your chair and go past me, I watch you, and follow you with my eyes; if your dress does but rustle, my heart sinks; if you leave the room, I remember every little word and action, and what your voice sounded like, and what you said.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If young Doricles Do light upon her, she shall bring him that Which he not dreams of. Enter a SERVANT SERVANT.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Now don't say a word against it, you dear dolorous thing.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Then pointing with his tiny finger, he said, “If you dig deep under the roots of this weed, you’ll find one of my treasure crocks filled to the brim with gold.”
— from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. (Eleanor Louise) Skinner

My lord Chancellor, what have you to plead in your defence?" Dassel assumed an air of injured innocence, and in an insinuating tone replied,-- "The accused should have the right to defend his cause always, and particularly in the present case, where there are many excuses to be urged.
— from Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden

All classes, indeed, of all sections, were not backward in giving opinion as to the quality of ministerial despatches; for a titled lady, writing from a far-off land where she did much work for the Home Government, dipped her pen in good strong ink and wrote, “My Lord, if your diplomatic despatches are as obscure as the one which lies before me, it is no wonder that England should cease to have that proud preponderance in her foreign relations which she once could boast of.”
— from Humours of '37, Grave, Gay and Grim: Rebellion Times in the Canadas by Kathleen Macfarlane Lizars

Naturally the latter was the more trying, but at this time the rum ration was served out; and it certainly prevented you from being frozen stiff and enabled you to get to sleep again if your duties did not keep you to the trenches.
— from Q.6.a and Other places: Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 by Francis Buckley

To merely contemplate getting a shave, in your dream, denotes you will plan for the successful development of enterprises, but will fail to generate energy sufficient to succeed.
— from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical Exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller

Go back into your drawer, dear, with, pending the first autumn fire, a kiss from your Valentine.
— from Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé — Complete by Gustave Droz

"Don't ask any more such foolish questions; Oscar will think you have n't got common sense if you do." "Did you write anything about me?" continued Emily, in a lower tone.
— from Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way by Walter Aimwell