"It is true," said I; "but were not their fears exaggerated?" "Yes and no, M. Aronnax," replied Captain Nemo, who seemed to know the Red Sea by heart.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Dulut sa bukug nga mananárì, A rabid cockfighter.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The observance of these prohibitions can give place only to isolated rites which are particular and almost exceptional; but it could not make a real cult, for before all, a cult is made by regular relations between the profane and the sacred as such.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

"They are up stairs with my sister: they will be down in a few moments, I dare say," had been Anne's reply, in all the confusion that was natural; and if the child had not called her to come and do something for him, she would have been out of the room the next moment, and released Captain Wentworth as well as herself.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

And she is not merely a remarkable character and a woman of light and leading; she is also representative of the émancipée , in the best sense of the word.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Richard Fleming was their first master; Nicholas Marshall and Richard Cox were custos, or wardens.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Anticipating a renewal of the Syrian attack, Judas next made a rapid campaign into the territory of the Idumeans, capturing the old Hebrew capital of Hebron and carrying his victories as far as Ashdod on the western borders of the Philistine plain.
— from The Makers and Teachers of Judaism From the Fall of Jerusalem to the Death of Herod the Great by Charles Foster Kent

There is no mistaking a Radigan carriage.
— from Mrs. Radigan: Her Biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal, and the Memoirs of J. Madison Mudison by Nelson Lloyd

For example, one must not make a ridiculous caricature, where a picture, however crude, is the intention.
— from Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling by Sara Cone Bryant

The girl did not move and replied cunningly: "I'm not sure.
— from Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Romain Rolland

However we were not molested, and reached Canton about eight the next morning.
— from Wanderings in the Orient by A. M. (Albert Moore) Reese

But still it cannot but strike us as peculiar that the document—the famous Charter of Avilés, [194] which plays in the history of Spanish something like the same part which the Eulalia hymn and the Strasburg Oaths play in French—dates only from the middle of the twelfth century, more than three hundred years after the Strasburg interchange, and at a time when French was not merely a regularly constituted language, but already had no inconsiderable literature.
— from The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

A letter came from him three weeks later—a doubtful, uneasy letter, showing that the mind of the writer was by no means at rest concerning the future.
— from The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt

"Certainly I am not Miss Austin," responded Cabell, fiercely.
— from The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle

However grand Evie's whims, I always had the stuff to back her—and I always lived in hopes that any turn of the pick and shovel would yield me, not merely a rich clean-up, but the inexhaustible [40] fortune that is every miner's dream.
— from Scarlett of the Mounted by Marguerite Merington

However, the latter is by no means a real, chemically and morphologically distinct, nucleus.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel