5 Su hechura biliosa, y el comercio excesivo con personas y cosas devotas, que exaltaban sin fruto ni objeto su imaginación, la habían envejecido prematuramente, y siendo joven no lo parecía.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
You thought I was making fun of you just now, Lizabetha Prokofievna?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In the first place, then, the person who is afflicted with shyness ought to be persuaded that he suffers from an injurious disease, and that nothing injurious 255 can be good: nor must he be wheedled and tickled with the praise of being called a nice and jolly fellow rather than being styled lofty and dignified and just; nor, like Pegasus in Euripides, "who stooped and crouched lower than he wished" 642 to take up his rider Bellerophon, must he humble himself and grant whatever favours are asked him, fearing to be called hard and ungentle.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch
Oui, pour lire des textes, etc. Cela dit, je lis de plus en plus sur écran, mais dans un cadre professionnel (par exemple les lettres d'information auxquelles je suis abonné, etc.), dès que l'on parle de lecture-plaisir (roman, détente, etc.), je ne lis pas sur écran, j'imprime (si ce n'est pas déjà le cas), et je lis sur papier.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Par contre, pour tout ce qui est information, je ne la prends plus que sur internet.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Tial oni akuzis Sokraton en la juĝejo, nomante lin pekanto kaj malbonfaranto, unue, ĉar li ne disdonas oferojn al la dioj, due, ĉar li enkondukas novajn diojn (ĉar li diris ke supernatura voĉo, kiu sendube estis lia nomo por la konscienco, parolis mallaŭte ĉe lia orelo), trie, ĉar li malbonigas la junularon de la urbo.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed
Avant-hier, étant dans la sacristie et répondant à une personne qui me questionnait, pour ne la point scandaliser sur la question, je m'embarrassai, et je fis une espèce de mensonge; cela me donna quelque répugnance à dire la Messe, mais je ne laissai pas de la dire.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss
I will not deny either the Duke of Nemours nor the Prince of Joinville, nor Louis Philippe himself.
— from The Boy Life of Napoleon, Afterwards Emperor of the French by Eugénie Foa
Jasmine never liked Primrose when she was in a saving mood, and she grumbled audibly when, the morning after Miss Martineau's visit, her elder sister suggested that they should do without some black cotton dresses which the day before they had decided to buy and to make for themselves.
— from The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls by L. T. Meade
He came in just now looking plumb downhearted.”
— from Pole Baker: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
My first lines were admirable: “‘Enfants, pétits laquais qué jé né logé pas, Jé suis content; allez, je paîrai vos papas.
— from Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) by Paul de Kock
Jamie, not liking, perhaps, to be thus designated, coolly replied, "An I hadna been an idiot, I micht ha' been sleepin' too."
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
Six months after his arrival, with the exception of the forts of Charlemont and Carrickfergus, King James no longer possessed a garrison in that province, which had been bestowed by his grandfather upon the ancestors of those who now unanimously rejected and resisted him.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee
On the 24th of January, Napoleon left Paris, in order to repair to the army.
— from Queen Hortense: A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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