Los países miembros originales de la OCDE son: Alemania, Austria, Bélgica, Canadá, Dinamarca, España, Estados Unidos, Francia, Grecia, Holanda, Irlanda, Islandia, Italia, Luxemburgo, Noruega, Portugal, Reino Unido, Suecia, Suiza y Turquía.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

And these subtleties are alchymized to a more refined sublimate by the abstracting brains of their several schoolmen; the Realists, the Nominalists, the Thomists, the Albertists, the Occamists, the Scotists; these are not all, but the rehearsal of a few only, as a specimen of their divided sects; in each of which there is so much of deep learning, so much of unfathomable difficulty, that I believe the apostles themselves would stand in need of a new illuminating spirit, if they were to engage in any controversy with these new divines.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

I feel sure that you will make our dear Lucy happy.”
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

But the crowds who perished in dungeons, of the torture, of confinement, and of broken hearts, the millions of dependent lives made utterly helpless, or hurried to the grave by the death of the victims, are beyond all register; or recorded only before Him , who has sworn that "He who leadeth into captivity, shall go into captivity: and he that killeth with the sword shall be killed by the sword."
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Perhaps it was about this time that Addison wrote his comedy of the Drummer , which had been long in his possession when Steele, who had become a partner in the management of Drury Lane Theatre, drew it from obscurity, suggested a few changes in it, and produced it — not openly as Addison's — upon the stage.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

My father—thus I tell thee the whole tale—was Polybus, In Corinth King; my mother Meropê Of Dorian line.
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

" The steadiness of his manner, and the intelligence of his eye as he spoke, convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication, she said, after a moment's recollection, "Mr. Willoughby, you OUGHT to feel, and I certainly DO—that after what has passed—your coming here in this manner, and forcing yourself upon my notice, requires a very particular excuse.—What is it, that you mean by it?"— "I mean,"—said he, with serious energy—"if I can, to make you hate me one degree less than you do NOW.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The more sublime the drama, the more profound the analysis to which the poet has had to subject the raw materials of daily life in order to obtain the tragic element in its unadulterated form.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

But that they to whom God has given, as He has to us, to be the founders of a new state as yet free from enmity—that they should create themselves enmities by their mode of distributing lands and houses, would be superhuman folly and wickedness.
— from Laws by Plato

And in truth her face reminded me of my old drawing lessons.
— from Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

"In those days while there was of necessity great self-reliance, there was also much wholesome dependence upon our neighbors, in all the matters of daily life the need was felt, and the call was answered.
— from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail. by Ezra Meeker

She selected the finest, whitest linen, the softest, warmest flannel, the daintiest muslin, and was even a little extravagant in the matter of dainty laces and Hamburg trimmings.
— from Laurel Vane; or, The Girls' Conspiracy by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

They have different laws and move on different lines.
— from Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde

, a man of distinguished learning and intelligence, contributed more than any other by his judicious exertions, to form an association sufficiently extensive, powerful, and wealthy, to execute the often renewed, and often disappointed project of establishing colonies in America.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

They are found in the camp, and the hospital, and the prison—wherever human sympathy can palliate human suffering; they are to be found where even wives and mothers flee before the dreaded pestilence, and these ministers of divine love, like light and air, and the dews of Heaven, visit alike the rich and poor, the sinner and the saint; the only claim they recognize being the claim of suffering and misfortune.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

After Garrick had quitted the stage (in 1776) and sold his share in the management of Drury Lane to Sheridan and his partners, it was proposed to De Loutherbourg to continue in his office of chief scene-painter, his salary being reduced one half.
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

He accused me of deliberately leaving Boston when I knew that he was coming and he said: “It was a low-down trick and I shall never forgive you.”
— from Marion: The Story of an Artist's Model by Winnifred Eaton

In every thing relating to Bordeaux there is an easy elegant exterior, which conveys the idea of an independent and frequented capital of a kingdom, and an eligible residence; whereas Lyons bears the obvious marks of its manufacturing origin, defiling, like our own Colebrook Dale, a lovely country by its smoke and stench, and leaving hardly one of the five senses unmolested.
— from Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by John Hughes

A new factor on this occasion was the strong appeal by the Tanks for an extra five minutes of dawning light, to ensure a true line of approach upon the allotted objective, whether a ruined village, or a thicket, or a field work.
— from The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by Monash, John, Sir