H2 anchor CHAPTER IX Christmas came and except for the ceremonial Mass, the solemn and wearisome Christmas congratulations from neighbors and servants, and the new dresses everyone put on, there were no special festivities, though the calm frost of twenty degrees Réaumur, the dazzling sunshine by day, and the starlight of the winter nights seemed to call for some special celebration of the season.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Lo que digo es 10 que estos pobres y menguados habitantes de Orbajosa son piadosos y buenos cristianos, si bien ninguno de ellos sabe filosofía alemana; por lo tanto no debes despreciar públicamente sus creencias.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Quam ob rem id quidem non dubium est, quin illa benignitas, quae constet ex opera et industria, et honestior sit et latius pateat et possit prodesse pluribus; non numquam tamen est largiendum, nec hoc benignitatis genus omnino repudiandum est et saepe idoneis hominibus indigentibus de re familiari impertiendum, sed diligenter atque moderate; multi enim patrimonia effuderunt inconsulte largiendo.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

With respect to French, it is no doubt essential to comfort to understand it; it is one of the attributes of a lady to speak it well; still, it is not indispensable to speak it so well that the American lady is mistaken for a Parisian.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

So near a vicinity to her mother and Meryton relations was not desirable even to his easy temper, or her affectionate heart.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

It came into the scullery no more; but I lay all the tenth day in the close darkness, buried among coals and firewood, not daring even to crawl out for the drink for which I craved.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He did not dare even to cry.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Note 131 ( return ) [ The Aera of Martyrs, which is still in use among the Copts and the Abyssinians, must be reckoned from the 29th of August, A. D. 284; as the beginning of the Egyptian year was nineteen days earlier than the real accession of Diocletian.
— 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

While they lay at an Anchor, and were all the next Day employed in taking out Water, one of the aforementioned Fleet bore towards them with English Colours, answered with a red Ensign from the Pyrates, but did not speak with one another.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Postquam descripseris in papyro separata quadratum geometricum A, facies duas lineas parallelas inter se distantes altitudine, quam dederis puncto oculi; linea inferior erit linea plani, linea superior erit linea horizontalis, super quam ponuntur puncta oculi O , & distantiæ E , quod sit ex parte quam mavis: linea distantiæ non debet esse brevior magnitudine rerum describendarum.
— from Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture by Andrea Pozzo

The yeomen had drunk deep; the ale was strong, and at a sign from their master, all sought rest on the hostel floor before the now dying embers.
— from The Prose Marmion A Tale of the Scottish Border by Sara Davis Jenkins

Russon Wooldridge is a professor at the Department of French Studies in the University of Toronto, Canada, and the founder of the NEF (Net des Etudes Françaises / Net of French Studies) in May 2000.
— from Booknology: The eBook (1971-2010) by Marie Lebert

As the work of the department was concerned with every kind of export trade, no one was admitted who could turn to private account any knowledge that came to him in his official capacity; and, though military service was not yet compulsory nor departmental exemption the desire of the gun-shy, the recruiting for the office was almost entirely confined to men who were over age or unfit.
— from While I Remember by Stephen McKenna

Nobody does except the fellow who just left here in such a hurry, and Smiler, who can’t tell.”
— from Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy by Kirk Munroe

But hitherto we have not insisted on their administrative procedure, which nevertheless deserves examination.
— from Belgians Under the German Eagle by Jean Massart

Aimée de Neuville declared emphatically in good English.
— from At the Sign of the Sword: A Story of Love and War in Belgium by William Le Queux

It is amusing to learn that it was a grievance of O'Connell's against Miss Edgeworth that she never directly espoused this cause by means of her pen.
— from Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern