Were he living, each new day would have multiplied his crimes.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
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
The notion of his ego as such is, like every notion, derived from sensibility, for the process of apperception itself comes to our knowledge chiefly through those feelings of tension [what I have above called inward adjustments] which accompany it."
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
[3] Sin embargo, la misma yerba puesta en maceración con agua fría, nos da una bebida agradable que no tiene los inconvenientes del mate frío y que lleva el nombre de tererere .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Lleva el nombre de hornero o casero un pájaro amigo del hombre cuyas casas busca para construir en sus cornisas, en los árboles que las rodean o en los postes de sus corrales, un fuerte nido de barro que se asemeja exteriormente a un horno de cocer pan.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Le multilinguisme sur internet est la conséquence logique et naturelle de la diversité des populations humaines.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
, me hubieran traído aquí, 25 también me habrían parecido encantadores estos desnudos cerros, estos llanos polvorientos o encharcados, estas vetustas casas de labor, estas norias desvencijadas, cuyos cangilones lagrimean lo bastante para regar media docena de coles, esta desolación miserable
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
But ere he could his armour on him dight, 65 Or get his shield, his monstrous enimy With sturdie steps came stalking in his sight, An hideous Geant, ° horrible and hye, That with his tallnesse seemd to threat the skye, The ground eke groned under him for dreed; 70 His living like saw never living eye, Ne durst behold: his stature did exceed The hight of three the tallest sonnes of mortall seed.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
Then he had walked across the corridor to the House of Lords, expecting, no doubt, to hear the same sentiments expressed in even loftier language.
— from Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 19, 1916 by Various
We love expansion, not disorder, and when we attain freedom without incongruity we have a much greater and a much purer delight.
— from The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
That the hope of thy mercy and life everlasting never decay in me, that love wax not cold in me.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman
And thou wert lovely to the last; Extinguished, not decayed; [44] As stars that shoot along the sky
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
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