Her voice, of immense power and sublime expression, gave to the rude, unpolished poetry of these psalms a magic and an effect which the most exalted Puritans rarely found in the songs of their brethren, and which they were forced to ornament with all the resources of their imagination.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

La mise en place récente d'un espace multimédia sert
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

For example, it is well known that a large amount of ear wax in the aural passage may cause all sorts of ringing and sighing in the ear, and may even produce real hallucinations.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

To which Charley, whose grammar, I confess to my shame, never did any credit to my educational powers, replied, "Yes, miss.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

But where the fault lies is here—instead of looking for the end which would explain the necessity of such means, we posited an end from the start which actually excludes such means, i.e. we made a desideratum in regard to certain means (especially pleasurable, rational, and virtuous) into a rule, and then only did we decide what end would be desirable....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

no hay Dios, de que no hay otra vida, de que la penitencia, el ayuno, la castidad y demás virtudes católicas son quijotescas [35-12] locuras, impropias de un pueblo civilizado, y de que Napoleón es el verdadero Mesías, el (p36) redentor de los pueblos, el amigo de la especie humana....» ¡Señores!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Note 41 ( return ) [ Hadriani molem.... magna ex parte Romanorum injuria....
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

She explained to them her idea of calling a meeting in Rochester for the specific purpose of starting a petition for more extended property rights to women.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

“On the contrary Shatov, on the contrary,” Stavrogin began with extraordinary earnestness and self-control, still keeping his seat, “on the contrary, your fervent words have revived many extremely powerful recollections in me.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They threw themselves into the most extravagant postures, rolling down hills, and running up again, throwing sticks even at oranges and cakes, in hopes of getting something to allay their hunger and thirst—some indeed we saw, decent-looking persons, devouring with avidity fish, called eels, [346] who themselves (poor victims!) are driven to wallow in mud for their food, and first skinned alive, are next cut to pieces, and finally exterminated by the hands of cooks as men are by ministers.—What a striking resemblance there is between an Eel and an Englishman!
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

That, considering that easterly winds began to prevail—"that there was nothing to be gotten"—that, the impetuosity of the tides was such "That they did but fall," and that storms and tempests began to reign—and moreover, that they must either promptly return home, or else remain where they were till spring, it was expedient to return.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Sometimes nature slightly alters the patterns, discarding what is unfit for her momentary enigmatic purposes, retaining and favoring that which pleases her whimsical fancy for the time being.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

He even wished to immortalise his impurities; selecting for his epitaph the following lines:— Hæc habeo quæ edi, quæque exsaturata libido Hausit; at illa jacent multa et præclara relicta.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

"You'll get mosquitoes enough presently," replied Foster Portney.
— from To Alaska for Gold; Or, The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Edward Stratemeyer

M ERCHANT P RINCES AND S TREET OF P ALACES
— from Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia, Volume 48, March, 1854 by Various

It is certainly remarkable that whilst other European mountains—as, for instance, the Vosges and the mountains of Auvergne—have passed through a glacial epoch, the far more elevated Peristeri, Rilo Dagh, and Balkan, under about the same latitude as the Pyrenees, should never have had their valleys filled by moving rivers of ice.
— from The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe. Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. by Elisée Reclus

Having stayed with them as long as my limited time would permit (which I thought was but very short), that I might keep touch with my keeper and come home in due time, I took leave of my friends there, and with mutual embraces parting, returned to my (in some sense more easy, but in others less easy) prison, where after this I stayed not long before I was brought back to my father’s house.
— from The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself by Thomas Ellwood