His bloated body and shrunken legs—their deformity enhanced a hundredfold by the fantastic dress—the glassy eyes, contrasting fearfully with the thick white paint with which the face was besmeared; the grotesquely-ornamented head, trembling with paralysis, and the long skinny hands, rubbed with white chalk—all gave him a hideous and unnatural appearance, of which no description could convey an adequate idea, and which, to this day, I shudder to think of.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Faut-il que nous définissions collectivement ce que nous voulons dans cette société, cela me semble urgent, et c'est un débat qui concerne tout le monde, pas uniquement les "connectés"?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

There was a group of sober little donkeys with naked, dusky children clambering about them, or sitting astride their rumps, or pulling their tails.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

50 From Deva Sailor Miguel Benesciano Bresá Sailor Diego Gallego Bayona in Galicia Sailor Lope Navarro Tudela Sailor Nicolas Ginoves Génova Sailor Nicolao de Nápoles Nápoles de Romanía Sailor Miguel Sanchez Rodas Sailor Nicolao de Capua Capua Sailor Benito Genovés Arvenga Sailor Felipe de Rodas Rodas Sailor Esteban Villon 51 Troya Sailor Joan Griego Nápoles de Romanía Gunner Jorge Aleman [ i.e. , the German], chief gunner From Estric Gunner Filiberto de Torres 52 Toriana Gunner Hans, a German 53 Agan Common seaman Joanico, 54 a Viscayan Somorostro Common seaman Joan de Arratia 55
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Primum tanta vox tam parvo in corpusculo, tam pertinax spiritus; deinde in una perfecta musica scientia: modulatus editur sonus, et nunc continuo spiritu trahitur in longum, nunc variatur inflexo, nunc distinguitur conciso, copulatur intorto, promittitur revocato, infuscatur ex inopinato interdum et secum ipse murmurat, plenus, gravis, acutus, creber, extentus, ubi visum est, vibrans, summus, medius, imus; breviterque omnia tam parvulis in faucibus quae tot exquisitis tibiarum tormentis ars hominum excogitavit, ut non sit dubium hanc suavitatem praemonstratam efficaci auspicio, cum in ore Stesichori cecinit infantis.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Thus, where a man had granted that he would be bound in one hundred shillings to pay his servant on a certain day for his services, and for payments made by the servant on his account, it was argued that there was no contract precedent, and that by parol the party is not obliged; and, further, that, so far as appeared, the payments were made by the servant out of his own head and at no request, from which no duty could commence.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I kept neither dog, cat, cow, pig, nor hens, so that you would have said there was a deficiency of domestic sounds; neither the churn, nor the spinning-wheel, nor even the singing of the kettle, nor the hissing of the urn, nor children crying, to comfort one.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

“No doubt, Christopher Coney, no doubt.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Physiological Action of "Caffetannic Acid" It has been demonstrated in chapter XVII that there is no definite compound "caffetannic acid," and that the heterogeneous material designated by this name does not possess the properties of tanning.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

c. 36) in the xiith, and the Chronicon Astense, in the xith volume (p. 191, 192) of Muratori's Collection Papa innumerabilem pecuniam ab eisdem accepit, nam duo clerici, cum rastris, &c.] Note 87 ( return )
— 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

Eliminate Caligula, and Nero, Domitian, Commodus, Caracalla and Heliogabalus would never have been.
— from Imperial Purple by Edgar Saltus

It was not long till tall, good-looking and still somewhat "nervy" Dex Coleman came whooping back to the barn with the word, "I bunted past the doctor, fellows—never even let on I knew he was there—and spoke right up to Lady Frances herself.
— from Daisy Herself by Will E. Ingersoll

#_Capital: Kigali _#_Administrative divisions: 10 prefectures (prefectures, singular—prefecture in French; plural—NA, singular—prefegitura in Kinyarwanda); Butare, Byumba, Cyangugu, Gikongoro, Gisenyi, Gitarama, Kibungo, Kibuye, Rigali, Ruhengeri _#_Constitution: 17 December 1978 _#_Independence: 1 July 1962 (from UN trusteeship under Belgian administration) _#_Legal system: based on German and Belgian civil law systems and customary law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction _#_National holiday: Independence Day, 1 July (1962) _#_Executive branch: president, Council of Ministers (cabinet) _#_Legislative branch: unicameral National Development Council (Conseil National de Developpement) _#_Judicial branch: Constitutional Court (consists of the Court of Cassation and the Council of State in joint session) _#_Leaders: Chief of State and Head of Government—President Maj. Gen. Juvenal HABYARIMANA (since 5 July 1973) _#_Political parties and leaders: only party—National Revolutionary Movement for Development (MRND), Maj. Gen. Juvenal HABYARIMANA; note—the MRND is officially a development movement, not a party _#_Suffrage: universal adult, exact age
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[69] Such as Rumex acetosella , Cynara Scolcymus (artichoke); Solanum tuberosum (species of nightshade); Daucus carotta (carrot); Petroselinum sativum (parsley); Brassica oleracea (sea-kail); Raphanus sativus (horse-radish).
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

38, where it occurs in the plural: [———] "powers," the Apostle expressing his persuasion that nothing will be able to separate us from the love of God, "nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers [———], nor height, nor depth," &c., &c. In 1 Cor.
— from Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

On the next day Clement C. Clay, also, surrendered himself to the United States authorities, and was sent, not to Washington to meet the awful charge formulated against him, but to the same military fortress.
— from The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by David Miller DeWitt

He was married, November 9, 1815, to Mary Smith, daughter of Rev. Peter Smith, a Baptist minister (then resident on a farm near what is now Donnelsville, Clark County, Ohio), who had some celebrity also as a physician in the "Miami Country."
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

The French Protestant church (Du St. Esprit), built by the Huguenots in 1704, near the corner of Pine and Nassau Streets, and the North Dutch church, corner of William and Fulton Streets, were converted first into prisons and then into hospitals.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

no DAMAGED coat can enter there!' BEATTIE'S Minstrel.
— from The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2) by Andrew Steinmetz