This Humanity and good Nature engages every Body to him, so that when he is pleasant upon any of them, all his Family are in good Humour, and none so much as the Person whom he diverts himself with:
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

no es en buenas cuentas una definida familia étnica que en algún momento de su historia pudo haber formado una sola nación.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

orpse Candle come out of his father’s mouth and go to his feet, and away a bit, then back again to the mouth, which it did not exactly enter, but blended as it were with the sick man’s body.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The milk of these mares is drunk by himself and his family, and by none else, except by those of one great tribe that have also the privilege of drinking it.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

No; at present I have no means whatever, and no employment either, but I hope to find some.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

verb [ ex , forth , + orior , rise ], come forth, rise expedîtus, -a, -um , adj. without baggage ex-pellô, -ere, -pulî, -pulsus [ ex , out , + pellô , drive ], drive out ex-piô, -âre, -âvî, -âtus [ ex , intensive, + pîo , atone for ], make amends for, atone for explôrâtor, -ôris , m. [ explôrô , investigate ], spy, scout explôrô, -âre, -âvî, -âtus , examine, explore ex-pugnô, -âre, -âvî, -âtus [ ex , out , + pugnô , fight ], take by storm, capture exsilium, exsi´lî , n. [ exsul , exile ], banishment, exile ex-spectô, -âre, -âvî, -âtus [ ex , out , + spectô , look ], expect, wait ex-struô, -ere, -strûxî, -strûctus [ ex , out , + struô , build ], build up, erect exterus, -a, -um , adj., compared exterior, extrêmus or extimus , outside, outer ( § 312 ) extrâ , prep, with acc.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

After the birth, the man set out on a table two cakes, one of them broken and the other one whole, and said to the nurse: “Eat, eat; but don’t eat of the cake which is broken nor of the cake which is whole.”
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

It so far deepened the stain which a previous and very similar event had left upon the reputation of the French commander that it was not entirely erased by his early and glorious death.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

A flambeau is carefully prepared at the same time, with a gum which exudes from a tree growing in the vicinity, and which is not easily extinguished by fixed air or subterraneous vapours."
— from Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits by Thomas Bingley

They warned him that he might not escape easily; but as he persisted, they directed him to the cavern, which he immediately entered, while the demons laughed, saying that the bear had fallen into the trap and the lion [69] into the net, and that he was carrying his hide to market for nothing.
— from The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby

The effect of walking in finnesko is much the same as walking in gloves, and you get a sense of touch which nothing else except bare feet could give you.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

New Jersey, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, were all colonized by the English, shortly after the settlement of Virginia and New England, either by emigration from England, or from the other colonies.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

When one of these is placed horizontally upon the other, it does not appear to actually come in contact with it, for the surfaces are so true that the air does not easily escape, but a thin film supports the upper plate, which glides upon it with remarkable readiness ( A ).
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

He assailed a scheme for the debasement of the coinage with a courage and a power of wit and sarcasm such as were not excelled even by the famous Drapier, on the same theme, a hundred years later.
— from Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo

And we may say, with equal propriety, that motive can be the cause of no effect , except by its action or productive influence.
— from An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

Is it not expressly emphasized by all modern moralists?
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

Cows are not exactly exciting, but they don't ask fool questions.
— from Roughing it De Luxe by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb