We shook hands and agreed to say no more about “reform” and “examples to the rising generation.”
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The farmer makes a rush at East and collars him; and that young gentleman, with unusual discretion, instead of kicking his shins, looks appealingly at Holmes, and stands still.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Madam d’Houdetot informed me of the day on which she intended to come and bid adieu to the valley, and gave me a rendezvous at Eaubonne.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It led under stately trees and through groups of native houses and by the usual village well, where the picturesque gangs are always flocking to and fro and laughing and chattering; and this time brawny men were deluging their bronze bodies with the limpid water, and making a refreshing and enticing show of it; enticing, for the sun was already transacting business, firing India up for the day.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Ce qui signifie les convertir à des formats convenant aux différents "readers" du marché: Acrobat Reader, Acrobat eBook Reader (que nous sommes les premiers en France à diffuser), et bientôt Microsoft Reader
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

[The Commission in Lunacy.] NOSWELL (Mistress), a rich and eccentric Englishwoman, who was in Paris at the Hotel Lawson about the middle of Louis Philippe's reign; after much mental debate she bought of Fritot the shawl called Selim, which he said at first it was "impossible" for him to sell.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

It is by no means always reliable; almost everybody has at some time experienced the well-known illusion that all that is happening now happened before at some time.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Thus the ideas of heat and cold, light and darkness, white and black, motion and rest, are equally clear and positive ideas in the mind; though, perhaps, some of the causes which produce them are barely privations, in those subjects from whence our senses derive those ideas.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Thus all things being prepared about nine in the morning, after receiving an exact account of the number of the enemy taken at Haddington, the Chevalier put himself at the head of his small army, drawing his sword, said with a very determined countenance, Gentlemen, I have flung away the scabbard, with God's assistance I don't doubt of making you a free and happy people, Mr. Cope shall not escape us as he did in the Highlands, and then began his march, ordering the few horse, he then had, not above fifty in number, to advance at some small distance in front, and to detach a few to discover the enemy's march.
— from The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by J. Pringle (James Pringle) Thomson

“Mr and Mrs Hugh Lingon,” announced the butler the next minute; and a fair fat young man entered, with a tall handsome lady, who threw back her mantle, and rushed at Ella, to clasp her in her arms, kissing and sobbing over her for a minute, before darting away, rushing at Charley Vining, throwing her arms round his neck, and kissing him with a loud smack.
— from By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn

During telophase the chromosomes uncoil and return to invisibility; a new nucleus, nucleolus, and nuclear membrane are reconstituted at each end, and division of the cell body occurs between the new nuclei, forming the two new cells.
— from Radioisotopes and Life Processes (Revised) by Walter E. Kisieleski

An epitaph in the tombstone, written by Bobby Burns, reads:— Here lies an honest man at rest, As e’er God with His image blest; The friend of man, the friend of truth, The guide of age, the guide of youth.
— from Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

The states general of Holland issued letters of marque and reprisal against England.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

Mount and ride, Arima,” exclaimed Harry, pressing his heels into his mule’s sides, and urging the animal into a canter along the plainly marked trail until he was taught better by the Indian.
— from Harry Escombe: A Tale of Adventure in Peru by Harry Collingwood

The doctor swallowed his draught, and put down the glass before he made any reply, and even then he said but little.
— from Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

Buford crossed the Rapidan to make a reconnoissance, and encountering Fitzhugh Lee, recrossed at Raccoon Ford, closely followed by the latter.
— from Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd

It was a stolid, placid boy, intensely wrapt up in his cathedrals and his generals, intensely devoted to "Ma," and regarding all else as rather a nuisance.
— from A Student in Arms: Second Series by Donald Hankey