Long journey, doubtful errand; Enfans de la Patrie, may a good genius guide you!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:— “Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left.” “Put me where you like,” said the man; “in the attic, in the stable.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It must follow that any number of misunderstandings can develop, and many an alteration in the conception of justice and decency, considered through a long period, may become very significant in indicating the changes in the meaning of words.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

As you love Phebe, meet;- and as I love no woman, I'll meet.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

La inspección de mataderos y mercados es escrupulosa en los países más adelantados, lo mismo que la inspección del pescado, la leche, aves, encurtidos, frutas y legumbres.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Los admirables sueños del alma, su arrobamiento místico; la inspiración misma de los poetas, mentira.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

A number of blunders in executing this made matters worse rather than better; and the commodore, at last losing patience, made signal thirty minutes later to attack (Plate XVII., A), following it with another for close action at pistol range.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

(a) Both at Athens and in the Laws a man who has disputed property in his possession must give the name of the person from whom he received it (Telfy); and any one searching for lost property must enter a house naked (Telfy), or, as Plato says, 'naked, or wearing only a short tunic and without a girdle.
— from Laws by Plato

Multum et verae gloriae, quamvis uno libro, Persius meruit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Some will be failures, no doubt; but after you get the knack you will be able to improvise on the least promising materials.
— from Camp and Trail by Stewart Edward White

Early the next morning the little party met at breakfast.
— from For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Oft have I kiss'd that forehead high, Like polished marble to the eye, And blessing, breathed an anxious sigh, For Willy.
— from Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The first person to whom Lökke presented me was Emil Stang (born 1834), the son of the then prime minister of Norway, Frederik Stang, and a leading advocate.
— from Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse

The landing place mentioned by Lieutenant Ball, is on a rock, a little detached from the island, and has communication with it at half tide: there is no objection to this being a very good landing place, if it were not for the almost total impossibility of getting any article of provisions or stores further than the rock, which is at least three hundred yards from the valley that leads down to it.
— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

[pg 711] in Rome there do not lack pious minds which, undisturbed by these terrible dangers, desire to see the insolent enterprise carried through, in the belief that the prevalent corruption can only be overcome by a life and death struggle.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

Such "aesthetic" qualities, by what we might call in logical phrase, metabasis eis allo genos,+ a derivation into another kind of matter, transform themselves, in the temper of the patient the hearer or spectator, into terms of ethics, into the sphere of the desires and the will, of the moral taste, engendering, nursing
— from Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater

the current of the upper portion is extreemly rappid, that of the middle and lower portions much more gentle than the Missouri.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark