Olivier Lefèvre est de taille.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

"People with more or less education discovered those puns centuries ago," said Tip.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Now precisely at the moment when Joly published his Dialogues aux Enfers the secret societies were particularly active, and since by this date a number of Jews had penetrated into their ranks a whole crop of literary efforts directed against Jews and secret societies marked the decade.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

to mine Elder Brother William Burton of Lindly Esquire during his life and after him to his Heirs I make my said Brother William likewise mine Executor as well as paying such Annuities and Legacies out of my Lands and Goods as are hereafter specified I give to my nephew Cassibilan Burton twenty pounds Annuity per Ann.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Nosotros los pobres patanes de Orbajosa la encontramos divina.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

At the summit was a circular orifice, by which I had caught the slight gleam of light, evidently daylight.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

[‘ shamble ’] scamu (ea, eo, o) f. ‘ shame ,’ confusion , Cp (o), Lk (eo): disgrace, dishonour , Cr (o): insult , MkR (o): shameful circumstance , WW: modesty , CP: private parts , Gen, WW .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

If we paused for a moment to examine the cheapest cant phrases that pass our lips every day, we should find that they were as rich and suggestive as so many sonnets.
— from The Defendant by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

This it will do; and those who blame it for not doing more blame it for not doing what no Constitution, no code of laws, ever did or ever will do; what no legislator, who was not an ignorant and unprincipled quack, ever ventured to promise.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Comme on lui en demandait la raison: «Dans la peinture, répondit-il, toutes les fautes sont exposées à la vue; mais dans la médecine, elles sont enterrées avec le malade.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

our little Earth determined a vital activity so prodigious and so varied must needs have spread the waves of an incomparably vaster and more diversified existence throughout the immensities of the Universe?
— from Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion

Such education should enable an average boy of fifteen or sixteen to read and write his own language with ease and accuracy, and with a sense of literary excellence derived from the study of our classic writers: to have a general acquaintance with the history of his own country and with the great laws of social existence; to have acquired the rudiments of the physical and psychological sciences, and a fair knowledge of elementary arithmetic and geometry.
— from Science & Education: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

To read the “Emblems of the Frontispiece” in “Coryate’s Crudities,” one would imagine that from Montreuil to Abbeville was one long endless descent.
— from Our sentimental journey through France and Italy A new edition with Appendix by Joseph Pennell

The similarity between the two crosses is explained by the fact that, in bequeathing £200 on 25th December 1541 for building a new cross at Coventry, Sir William Holles, formerly Lord Mayor of London, expressly directed that it was to be modelled upon that already existing at Abingdon.
— from Old Crosses and Lychgates by Aymer Vallance