Their language, largely mixed with Maithili, I found difficult to understand; but for that very reason I took all the more pains to get at their meaning.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

'If I know you better than quite to believe (unfortunate dog though I am!) that you hate me, or even that you are wholly indifferent to me, Lizzie, let me know so much more from yourself before we separate.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The hearse was followed by eight gentlemen, one of whom was weeping, while the others were chatting together, but there was no priest, and I thought to myself: “This is a non-religious funeral,” and then I reflected that a town like Loubain must contain at least a hundred freethinkers, who would have made a point of making a manifestation.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Latin and Greek, he could, with the help of the modern languages, learn more completely by the intelligent work of six weeks than in the six years he spent on them at school.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

my feet would freeze in the thin mockersons which I wore, after a Short delay in the middle of the Day, I took one man and proceeded on as fast as I could about 6 miles to a Small branch passing to the right, halted and built fires for the party agains their arrival which was at Dusk verry cold and much fatigued we Encamped at this Branch in a thickly timbered bottom which was Scercely large enough for us to lie leavil, men all wet cold and hungary.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton[Fr], rusticity; boorishness &c. adj.; brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism[obs3]; ribaldry; slang &c. (neology) 563. bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie[Fr].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

A25 , B , C , Cy , D , H49 , JC , L74 , Lec , M , N , O'F , P , S , S96 , TCD , W 2 For ... weare:]
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Note 347 ( return ) [ “Quasi pueros primae teneritudinis, quos ‘pisciculos’ vocabat, institueret, ut natanti sibi inter femina versarentur, ac luderent: lingua morsuque sensim appetentes; atque etiam quasi infantes firmiores, necdum tamen lacte depulsos, inguini ceu papillae admoveret: pronior sane ad id genus libidinis, et natura et aetate.”
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

But as to effects, a thousand little countrywomen have lived lives more equal, more sweet, and constant than his.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

They proved to be those of the long lost monument of Mircalla, Countess Karnstein.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

But though they had practical experience of sea life, like Marryat, Glascock and Chamier had not his literary faculty.
— from The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker

"Quick!" said Loo; "lift me up to the window."
— from The Usurper: An Episode in Japanese History by Judith Gautier

“The lady looks marriageable to me,” observed Anthony, strolling away.
— from The Indifference of Juliet by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

Of the many works on Lincoln which the writer has consulted in the preparation of this volume, the following deserve to be mentioned: Nicolay and Hay's "Life of Lincoln," Herndon and Weik's "Life of Lincoln," Lamon's "Life of Lincoln," Holland's "Life of Lincoln," Arnold's "Life of Lincoln," Raymond's "Life of Lincoln," Stoddard's "Life of Lincoln," Barrett's "Life of Lincoln," "Every-Day Life of Lincoln," Arnold's "Lincoln and Slavery," Carpenter's "Six Months at the White House with Lincoln," "Reminiscences of Lincoln," "Anecdotes of Lincoln," "Lincolniana," "The President's Words," "The Martyr's Monument," "Tribute of the Nations to Lincoln," "Lincoln Memorial" and "Lincoln Memorial Album.
— from Abraham Lincoln: Was He a Christian? by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg

Love Me Little, Love Me Long.
— from A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria by Joseph Grego