{—Lord Byron, } Childe Harold , {Canto} iv., stanza 121.] 77.—Love lends its name to an infinite number of engagements ( Commerces ) which are attributed to it, but with which it has no more concern than the Doge has with all that is done in Venice.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

During the last years of his life Langeland lived in North Cape and in Milwaukee, where he died in 1888; his wife died in 1908, at the home of her son, Dr. Peter Langeland with whom she had lived since her husband’s death.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

[‘ leesing ’] + līesnes (ē, ī) f. redemption . līeð- = līð- līexan = līxan līf I. n. ‘ life ,’ existence , Æ, B, Chr, JnL : lifetime , RB .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

'At least Lucknow is nearer to Benares than Umballa.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

And similarly, although social rank and status is, in England, an object of passionate pursuit, yet it is continually said, with general approval, that it is of no intrinsic value as a means of happiness; that though the process of ascending from a lower grade to a higher is perhaps generally agreeable, and the process of descending from a higher to a lower certainly painful, yet permanent existence on the loftier level is no more pleasant than on the humbler; that happiness is to be found as easily in a cottage as in a palace (if not, indeed, more easily in the cottage): and so forth.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

One must notice it; for a lovely lake is not as common a thing along the railways of Australia as are the dry places.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Mas sayun pag lukdúhun (lukdúun, ilukdu) nákù ang duwang, It would be easier for me to carry the basin on my head.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

We need little doctrine to live at our ease; and Socrates teaches us that this is in us, and the way how to find it, and the manner how to use it: All our sufficiency which exceeds the natural is well-nigh superfluous and vain: ‘tis much if it does not rather burden and cumber us than do us good: “Paucis opus est literis ad mentem bonam:” [“Little learning is needed to form a sound mind.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But still more despicable are those from old till now numberless dissolute roués, one and all of whom maintain that libidinous affections do not constitute lewdness; and who try, further, to prove that licentious love is not tantamount to lewdness.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

[432] The Lord lay it not to their charge, who depart from the covenant of God with this land to follow such lying vanities.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford

Look, look! is not that the window of the cell where Cornelius was locked up?”
— from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas

“He had a little life insurance, not enough, of course, but a little.
— from Cap'n Eri by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

All the companies of the storming party, however, got in well, except the last, the light company of the Bengal European regiment, and they had a desperate fight, the enemy having returned to the gate in great numbers, and twenty-seven men of the company were laid low in no time.
— from Campaign of the Indus In a Series of Letters from an Officer of the Bombay Division by T. W. E. Holdsworth

Her land law is now far more favourable to the tenant than that of the other kingdoms, and she has been and still is receiving government subventions in aid of the tillers of her soil which English and Scotch tenants do not receive and which would cease if she became independent.
— from Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith

Thompson, Smith, Republican and Livingstonian leader in New York, 42 ; both politician and judge, 44 ; defeated by Van Buren for governor of New York, 166 .
— from Martin Van Buren by Edward Morse Shepard

My Dear Augusta,—The embarrassments you mention in your last letter I never heard of before, but that disease is epidemic in our family.
— from The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Let the work speak for itself, let the people and the voice of the people of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say what is being done by the Lord, let it not be said by me nor by my counselors and my associates.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith