The 'Méséglise way' with its lilacs, its hawthorns, its cornflowers, its poppies, its apple-trees, the 'Guermantes way' with its river full of tadpoles, its water-lilies, and its buttercups have constituted for me for all time the picture of the land in which I fain would pass my life, in which my only requirements are that I may go out fishing, drift idly in a boat, see the ruins of a gothic fortress in the grass, and find hidden among the cornfields—as Saint-André-des-Champs lay hidden—an old church, monumental, rustic, and yellow like a mill-stone; and the cornflowers, the hawthorns, the apple-trees which I may happen, when I go walking, to encounter in the fields, because they are situated at the same depth, on the level of my past life, at once establish contact with my heart.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Yet, however widely human sovereignty be extended, there must still be more peoples left, over whom each several king holds no sway.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

= peonie piose = pise pīpdrēam m. piping , Lcd 3·208 22 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Je ne sais pas pour les autres langues mais, pour le français, il est certain que quand nous aurons atteint la proportion américaine de foyers connectés (50%), nous pourrons espérer une plus grande représentativité sur le web.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

There was a mystical reason, answered our most perspicuous lantern, that would have hindered her; for had she gone under it, the wine, or the grapes of which ‘tis made, that’s the same thing, had been over her head, and then she would have seemed overtopped and mastered by wine.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Mr. Pickwick looked very hard at the man’s face, but his features were immovable, so he noted down the fact forthwith.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Village , in clause a , is modified by the adjective clause where my parents lived ( b ).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

If I have understood the matter wrong, or misconceived your design, I am truly sorry for it: however, it is not too late to correct the error; and I am ready to undertake, and, God willing, to carry through, whatever you may, on receipt of my public letter, tell me is your final resolve ."
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Many of these rugs, as well as some woven still later, before the introduction of aniline dyes and factory processes, are beautiful; but as a rule the modern pieces lack the refinement of technique observable only in those produced before the beginning of the XIX Century.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

But after obtaining an Eskimo skull and an Eskimo body he changes his opinion and in 1795-1806 he comes out with a definite classification of the Eskimo as a member of the Mongolians; and a similar conclusion, with its implied or expressed consequence of a migration from Asia to America, has been reached since, mainly on somatological but also in part on linguistic and cultural bases, by a large number of authors, including Lawrence, Morton, Pickering, Latham, Flower, Peschel, Topinard, Brinton, Virchow (1877), Quatrefages and Hamy (1882), Thalbitzer, Bogoras and numerous others.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička

The moments pass, Lawrence Campbell sits still with his head bowed moodily on his hand, his thoughts strangely blended, joy for his daughter's recovery, despairing grief for his wife's loss, and unutterable hate for Marcia Cleveland all mixed inextricably together.
— from Countess Vera; or, The Oath of Vengeance by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

True, we are not all called to be judges or elders or leaders; but the great moral principles laid down in the above quotation are of the very utmost value to every one of us, inasmuch as cases are continually occurring which call for their direct application.
— from Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume I by Charles Henry Mackintosh

If he saw a face that pleased him, he pursued it until he won it, and then it might perish like a faded rose-leaf—it was of no more interest to him.
— from A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette by Charlotte M. Brame

Rome: S. Peter's 236 Galeazzo Alessi Palazzo Grimaldi Genoa 240 Giulio Clovio Pietà Florence: Pitti, 241 246 Girolamo Sermoneta Martyrdom of S. Catherine Rome: S. Maria Maggiore 258 Johannes Calcar Portrait of a Man Paris: Louvre, 1,185 266 [Pg 1] MICHELAGNOLO BUONARROTI
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10) Michelagnolo to the Flemings by Giorgio Vasari

Instead of fainting with horror as Tom had pictured she might, Polly laughed at Katrina’s description, and Mrs. Latimer smiled and turned to her guests to excuse herself, by saying: “Tom just came in, poor boy, with a stuffy cold in his head.
— from Polly's Business Venture by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Besides, this reasoning certainly admits of being inverted and changed, in so far that we may probably lay it down with equal justice, that if the disease was new, as it would appear to have been, in Scotland at that time, it was in all probability new also to the other kingdoms of Europe.
— from Archæological Essays, Vol. 2 by James Young Simpson