Mi abuelo paterno es siempre feliz y alegre.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

You can't give me any particular evening, so that I can remind myself what I was doing at the time?
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Qual e` quella ruina che nel fianco di qua da Trento l'Adice percosse, o per tremoto o per sostegno manco, che da cima del monte, onde si mosse, al piano e` si` la roccia discoscesa, ch'alcuna via darebbe a chi su` fosse: cotal di quel burrato era la scesa; e 'n su la punta de la rotta lacca l'infamia di Creti era distesa che fu concetta ne la falsa vacca; e quando vide noi, se' stesso morse, si` come quei cui l'ira dentro fiacca.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

A few more groups, and I should have money and passports everywhere; so much at least.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[252] See larger image Go to transcription of diagram DIAGRAM of Apicius Manuscripts and Printed Editions, showing relation to each other and indicating the sources of the present translation.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

& ad mouendum quantum sit bibendum tantum aut mellis proferas: aut uinum inferas: sed suaserit non nihil uini meliromo mittas adiiciendum propter exitum solutiorem.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

“Then, in the first place, do you agree with me that I have a right to be a little masterful, abrupt, perhaps exacting, sometimes, on the grounds I stated, namely, that I am old enough to be your father, and that I have battled through a varied experience with many men of many nations, and roamed over half the globe, while you have lived quietly with one set of people in one house?”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Quand j'ai pu aider tel(le) internaute à l'autre bout du monde (Australie, par exemple) sur une question précise, via le hasard du questionnement.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Thus the affrati , in order to obtain more alms and offerings, went about in the garb of monks and priests, even saying mass, and pretending that it was the first time they had exercised their sacred office.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

s are taken from Harmonie et Mélodie and Portraits et Souvenirs .
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland

And 'tis very necessary, to make a perfect elysium (sic), that there should be a river Lethe, which I am not so happy as to find.
— from Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady

Unable to bear these distressing scenes any longer I ordered Kaiber to accompany me, and notwithstanding the heat and my own weariness I left the others lying down in such slight shade as the stunted banksias afforded, and throwing aside all my ammunition, papers, etc., started with him in search of water, carrying nothing but my double-barrelled gun.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by Grey, George, Sir

He doesn’t care for books, and looks down upon literary men as poor, effeminate sort of creatures, who know nothing of the world.
— from Big Game: A Story for Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

He had been on the stretch mentally and physically ever since the Captain's arrival.
— from Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell

It may be noted that many years earlier Burdach (in his Physiologie als Erfahrungswissenschaft , 1826) had recognized that the activity of the male favored procreation, and that mental and physical excitement seemed to have the same effect in the female also.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

“The odd thing is,” said Geraldine, as she drove home with Clement, “that this brought me back so strangely to that wonderful concert at home, with all of you standing up in a row, and the choir from Minsterham, and poor Edgar’s star.”
— from The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

He gave me a pale, expressionless stare instead, such as an ancient Christian might have worn when the call-boy told him the lions were ready in the Colosseum. Resignation, obstinacy and defiance—all nicely blended under a turn-the-other-cheek exterior.
— from The Motormaniacs by Lloyd Osbourne

Both the air and the vapor contained in it, being thus relieved of much atmospheric pressure, expand suddenly, and are cooled by rarefaction.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Large magazines and powder exploding shook the two cities in a terrible manner.
— from Angels of the Battlefield A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War by George Barton