We suffered torture no pen can describe from the hungry appeals for bucksheesh that gleamed from Arab eyes and poured incessantly from Arab lips.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Again, Tragedy is the imitation of an action; and an action implies personal agents, who necessarily possess certain distinctive qualities both of character and thought; for it is by these that we qualify actions themselves, and these—thought and character—are the two natural causes from which actions spring, and on actions again all success or failure depends.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

But the silent teacher within, greater and wiser than all others, led him to the fields; and neither sickness, misfortune, nor poverty could drive him from the study of botany, the choice of his heart, and he became the greatest botanist of his age.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

He did not play cards, did not drink, had no occupation, did not poke his nose into anything, and maintained a perpetual silence but yet he had somehow succeeded in getting through thirty to forty thousand roubles left him at his father's death.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Les auteurs ont besoin de s'adapter à un nouveau paradigme, celui de la liberté totale du flot de l'information.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Political distinctions necessarily produce civil distinctions.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

His subscription would be at ninety-nine per cent discount the very first day of its opening.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

LESSON XIV, § 99 Nouns auxilium, auxi´lî , n., help, aid (auxiliary) castrum, -î , n., fort (castle); plur., camp (lit. forts ) cibus, -î , m., food cônsilium, cônsi´lî , n., plan (counsel) dîligentia, -ae , f., diligence, industry magister, magistrî, m., master, teacher 1 Adjectives aeger, aegra, aegrum , sick crêber, crêbra, crêbrum , frequent miser, misera, miserum ,
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Therefore one order of the heavenly spirits is not properly called "Dominations."
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

And what has man to boast of as to sagacity and penetration, when he is as easily brought to cover and rear, and even to love, and often to prefer, the product of another's guilt with his wife or mistress, as a hen or a goose the eggs, and even young, of others of their kind? Nay, let me ask, if instinct, as it is called, in the animal creation, does not enable them to distinguish their own, much more easily than we, with our boasted reason and sagacity, in this nice particular, can do?
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson

323 Guido de Monte Rocher, in his Manual for Curates , states, that to some lepers the sacrament cannot be given, because “non possunt corpus Dominicum sic 136 recipere et tractare in ore suo, quin rejicerent ipsum, sic multi, quibus reciderunt labia et dentes et sunt totaliter corrosi usque ad guttur.”
— from Archæological Essays, Vol. 2 by James Young Simpson

IV., 19th June, and the New Police commenced duty 29th September, 1829.
— from The True History of Tom & Jerry or, The Day and Night Scenes, of Life in London from the Start to the Finish! by W. T. (William Thomas) Moncrieff

Whether this may best be done by the transcendental or by the commonplace is the question which it more behoves the reader than the author to answer, because the author may be fairly sure that he who can do the one will not, probably cannot, do the other.
— from Thackeray by Anthony Trollope

Neither pencil nor pen can describe the numerous actions and motions, the singularity of which was not greater, than was the ease and gracefulness with which they were performed.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr

117 IV Bishop Colenso Other strong gusts swept the high latitudes, when Dr. Colenso, Bishop of Natal, published certain destructive criticisms upon the canonical Scriptures.
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley

The railway and the automobile have made it all very accessible, but ninety per cent., doubtless, of the travellers who annually hie themselves in increasing numbers to Cannes, Nice, Monte Carlo, and Menton know nothing of that wonderful mountain country lying but a few miles back from the sea.
— from Rambles on the Riviera by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

The evening on which Jane and Charles Osborne met for the first time, unaccompanied by their friends, was one of those to which the power of neither pen nor pencil can do justice.
— from Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

And Dave could not prevent Conward doing the gracious thing without himself being ungracious.
— from The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead