Tauler's “Nachfolgung des armen Leben Christi,” and also his “Medulla Animæ,” are written in the same admirable spirit, though not quite equal in value to that work.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

20 — Don Nominavito es amigo nuestro—repuso una de ellas.—Desde su templo de la ciencia nos dice a la calladita mil ternezas, y también nos echa besos volados.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

He did not dance, and looked condescending, for he was on the staff of a satirical paper called The Firebrand , and gave himself airs accordingly.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The next day a letter came from two ladies who were then travelling in Italy, saying that they had decided to give us the money for such a chapel as we needed.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

inn I. n. dwelling, apartment, lodging, chamber, house , Æ, Mt ; AO: quartering oneself ( of soldiers ).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

But if more is asked of him, he will, with a benevolent shake of the head, refer to his brother, the free man of fact, and will, perhaps, not dissemble a little contempt: for, as regards his "freedom," thereby hangs a tale.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

His black coat has a gloss upon it which would not disgrace a London carriage horse, and which shows him to be in tip-top condition.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

"Now drive a little carefully, Pete," he said, suppressing a groan, "and look out for the ruts, I'd rather not be jolted.
— from Elsie's children by Martha Finley

En même temps, le Gouvernement Impérial déclara que la Russie était prête à continuer les pourparlers en vue d'une solution pacifique du conflit, soit par la voie de négociations directes avec le Cabinet de Vienne, soit en suivant la proposition de la Grande-Bretagne, par la voie d'une Conférence des quatre Grandes Puissances non intéressées directement, voire l'Angleterre, la France, l'Allemagne et l'Italie.
— from Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

"It would have been more high and noble-spirited, I dare say, to have blazed abroad her domestic grievances; but she had no doubt a little consideration for her children, and the honour and respectability of their house and name."
— from Mary Seaham: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by Mrs. (Elizabeth Caroline) Grey

Blue Bonnet enjoyed her afternoon immensely; she had never dreamed Aunt Lucinda could be so—well, lovely.
— from A Texas Blue Bonnet by Caroline Emilia Jacobs

The school discipline was not by many evidences very strict; the mode of living out of school very much resembled that of Eton for Oppidans; less elegant, no doubt, and less costly in its provisions for accommodation, but not less comfortable, and, in that part of the arrangements which was chiefly Etonian, even more so; for in both places the boys, instead of being gathered into one fold, and at night into one or two huge dormitories, were distributed amongst motherly old "dames," technically so called at Eton, but not at Hawkshead.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

Perhaps the latest, although probably not the last, attempt to prove that a Latin farmer's family might have subsisted on two -jugera- of land, finds its chief support in the argument that Varro (de R. R. i. 44, i) reckons the seed requisite for the -jugerum- at five -modii- of wheat but ten -modii- of spelt, and estimates the produce as corresponding to this, whence it is inferred that the cultivation of spelt yielded a produce, if not double, at least considerably higher than that of wheat.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

“So did you, Norah,” Dermod answered, looking curiously at the small white hand which he gripped in his own.
— from The Rat-Pit by Patrick MacGill

It is not without some pride in one's self-reliance to find one's self five miles from a railway station, as I did at Stapleford Abbotts; and, though my special quest was all in vain at several halting-places that day, I met with a Norman doorway at Lambourn Church which archaeologists would call a dream, the axe-work of the old masons as clean cut and as perfect as though it had been done last week; and in taking a near cut at a guess across country for Stapleford Tawney
— from In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by W. T. (William Thomas) Vincent

Then the king said, "This vagabond fellow must be put down," and he sent the next day a larger company against him, but they could do nothing: for he assembled more men than ever, and in order to bring them more quickly, he pulled his hat twice lower over his brows; then the heavy guns came into play, and the king's people were beaten and put to flight.
— from Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

{787} Next day a lady called on us to say that she had lost a ring, and asked if we knew anything about it.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 729, December 15, 1877 by Various