With these words the Judge retired, leaving John Jenkins buried in profound thought.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

What makes me think that the Werthers are the happier, is [Pg 257] that Don Juan reduces love to the level of an ordinary affair.
— from On Love by Stendhal

But some of the blocks resist its terrible onslaught and our mighty steed is hurled from side to side with crash and creak, as it drives its crystal corners fiercely against the jutting rocks, leaving marks of its white flesh on these black heads of adamant.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Les bibliothécaires-documentalistes juridiques représentent la majorité des membres de l'association, suivis par certains représentants des éditeurs et des juristes.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

In the same manner we are not to arraign the squire of any want of love for his daughter; for in reality he had a great deal; we are only to consider that he was a squire and a sportsman, and then we may apply the fable to him, and the judicious reflections likewise.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

From this brief sketch it will sufficiently appear that the rabbinical Jewish religion leads to and justifies the most revolting injustice and cruelty, a reproach which cannot be brought against Christianity."
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

While Hawthorne remained at Lenox, and during the composition of this romance, various other literary personages settled or stayed for a time in the vicinity; among them, Herman Melville, whose intercourse Hawthorne greatly enjoyed, Henry James, Sr., Doctor Holmes, J. T. Headley, James Russell Lowell, Edwin P. Whipple, Frederika Bremer, and J. T. Fields; so that there was no lack of intellectual society in the midst of the beautiful and inspiring mountain scenery of the place.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

By James Russell LOWELL.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

So I went; and the guard at the Tower Gate, making me leave my sword at the gate, I was forced to stay so long in the ale-house hard by, till my boy run home for my cloak, that my Lord Mayor that now is, Sir John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, with all his company, was gone with their coaches to his house in Minchen Lane.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

P. 667. Add. 28,704, 320: licenciado de Juan r. ”lic do .
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

J. R. Lowell's Poems, "A Glance Behind the Curtain.
— from Saturday Night Thoughts A Series of Dissertations on Spiritual, Historical, and Philosophic Themes by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

By James Russell Lowell . Poems.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 427, May, 1851 by Various

That night, as Tom and Cowan and McCann and James Ray lay around their fire, taking a well-earned rest, a man broke excitedly into the light with a kettle-shaped object balanced on his head, which he set down in front of us.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

And shaking his head Judas repeated like an echo: "Who is deceiving Judas?
— from When the King Loses His Head, and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev

Among the number who voted “nay” were James Russell Lowell and Maria White.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

"Jolly rotten luck
— from The Loom of Youth by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

Two of his own utterances reveal him as the words of no other man can—his address on the battlefield of Gettysburg, and his address at his second inauguration—but two months after he was laid to rest, James Russell Lowell, at the services in commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary of Harvard College, paid him one of the most eloquent tributes ever paid any man, concluding with the words: "Great captains, with their guns and drums; Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man; Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame; New birth of our new soil, the first American."
— from American Men of Action by Burton Egbert Stevenson