Then, indeed, does the tuckered sylph come out in fairy form and proceed with joy under cousinly escort to the exhausted old assembly-room, fourteen heavy miles off, which, during three hundred and sixty-four days and nights of every ordinary year, is a kind of antipodean lumber-room full of old chairs and tables upside down.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Sur le plan juridique, une confusion est souvent faite entre la diffusion des oeuvres en réseau, l'accès à des sources d'information gratuites en ligne (mais qui ne sont pas des livres) et
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Never was ruler so jealous, unreasonable, contemptible, exacting, and ignorant as this God of the Jews.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll

In 1609 a Spanish expedition was sent to Jamestown under Captain Ecija, commander of the garrison at St. Augustine.
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

To the legal mind the custom was certainly dangerous to the well-being of the State, and made the administration of justice unnecessarily complicated, especially when ecclesiastics pleaded their [56] privileges, and strongly resisted any attempt on the part of legal officials to ignore them.
— from The Eve of the Reformation Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII by Francis Aidan Gasquet

It is not the function of the teacher to impose his ready-made judgments upon children, either in morals or in anything else.
— from Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry

“I wonder if he is going to spoil my evening?” Greenleaf growled, but he jumped up cheerfully enough.
— from Scott Burton, Forester by Edward G. (Edward Gheen) Cheyney

It provided that native judges, under certain exceptional conditions, in country districts, should have jurisdiction over Englishmen, a jurisdiction long ago fully granted them in Ceylon with no ill results, and also granted in India in the presidency towns.
— from India under Ripon: A Private Diary by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Why did Jesus use concrete examples in His teaching? 5.
— from What Jesus Taught by Osborne J. P. Widtsoe

[Pg 128] "Yes, join us, comrade," echoed a swarthy Picard, throwing his arms about Barabant, who, nothing loath, answered: "Gladly, citoyens."
— from In the Name of Liberty: A Story of the Terror by Owen Johnson

But Dickens was a pioneer in his treatment of children in fiction; and if he did smite resounding blows which jar upon critical ears, at least he opened a rich vein of literature where many have followed him.
— from Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore