An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

q e La alt a li riſponde poy aq e lla de li corni li e apreſentato vna taça de vino et balando et dicendo certe parolle et lalt a reſpondendoli et facendo vista cat o ho cinque volte de beuere eL vino ſparge q e llo ſoura eL core deL porcho poy ſubito torna aballare a Queſta medeſima vien dato vna lancia Ley vibrandola et dicendo alquante parolle ſempre tute due balando et moſtrã do cat o ho cinque volte de dare [de dare: doublet in original MS. ]
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

while there is so much juster reasons for Vespasian's being emperor than for Vitellius; as they are themselves more deserving than those that made the other emperors; for that they have undergone as great wars as have the troops that come from Germany; nor are they inferior in war to those that have brought that tyrant to Rome, nor have they undergone smaller labors than they; for that neither will the Roman senate, nor people, bear such a lascivious emperor as Vitellius, if he be compared with their chaste Vespasian; nor will they endure a most barbarous tyrant, instead of a good governor, nor choose one that hath no child 20 to preside over them, instead of him that is a father; because the advancement of men's own children to dignities is certainly the greatest security kings can have for themselves.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Virtus laudatur et alget —Virtue is praised and is left to freeze in the cold.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

et xv braçia de tella a vno ſuo figliolo vna capo de panno lazuro et a vno
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

She was tall, had a small waist and large hips, with a dark skin, very large eyes and very black hair.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I have been (was) loved , etc. amâ vi amâ vimus amâ tus, -a, -um sum amâ tî, -ae, -a sumus amâ vistî amâ vistis es estis amâ vit amâ vêrunt, -re est sunt PLUPERFECT I had loved , etc.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

He had a—a 'don't care' appearance that James, to whom risk was the most intolerable thing in life, did not appreciate; a peculiar smile, too, coming when least expected; and very queer eyes.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Lincoln entertained a very exalted opinion of Chase's ability as a lawyer and a man.
— from Fifty Years of Public Service Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois by Shelby M. (Shelby Moore) Cullom

him;—when suddenly he saw at the door, which was ajar, the leering eyes and villainously cunning countenance of Billy.
— from Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

They are largely employed as village accountants ( patwāris ), clerks in Government offices, and agents to landowners, that is, in very much the same capacity [ 397 ] as the Kāyasths.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

As a race they lacked energy and vitality, and they were too corrupt and pleasure-loving to be moved by patriotic instincts in such a time of national crisis.
— from Women of the Romance Countries (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 6 (of 10) by John R. (John Robert) Effinger

As she said this she bestowed upon him a fascinating glimpse of a pair of lovely eyes, and veiled within them he saw what he took to be a tender appeal for sympathy and, perhaps, for help.
— from The Speculations of John Steele by Robert Barr

But, after all, the life of the communist has much more varied interests and excitements than that of the farmer or his family; for a commune is a village, and usually forms a tolerably densely crowded aggregation of people—more like a small section cut out of a city than like even a village.
— from The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff