His Letters approach to conversation, to show his delicate mode of implying, not expressing, sacred thoughts; his utter hatred of pretence and humbug.
— from Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments by Louise Imogen Guiney

Comparison of these data with my own is not entirely satisfactory because Auffenberg did not indicate clearly differences in size between the sexes, nor indicate the [374] boundary line between young and adults.
— from Natural History of the Racer Coluber constrictor by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

In the Miocene of India numerous extinct species of Bos , and two extinct genera, Hemibos and Amphibos , have been found, one of them at a great elevation in Thibet.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

"But it does seem more like four weeks; and how I'll ever stand two months of it, not ever seeing a soul but father—" Andy looked reproachful, and also glad.
— from The Happy Family by B. M. Bower

Nos, quoniam superum mare obsidetur, infero navigabimus, et, si Puteolis erit difficile, Crotonem petemus aut Thurios et boni cives amantes patriae mare infestum habebimus.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I can forgive being snubbed a little myself, or if not exactly snubbed, treated as a mysterious (and inferior) being from another planet; but if he had been condescending or disagreeable with Miss Evesham I should have hated him.
— from The Affair at the Inn by Jane Helen Findlater

Rome had ceased to be the mistress of the world, but it was not yet in ruins, and many of its noble edifices still stood almost in perfection.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 04 (of 15), English by Charles Morris