Most of our counties retain to this day the boundaries which were originally formed by the early Saxon settlers.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Si certains documents anciens sont parfois saisis ligne après ligne, le plus souvent parce que le texte original manque de clarté, les oeuvres sont en général scannées en utilisant un logiciel OCR (optical character recognition), puis elles sont relues et
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Some old documents are typed line by line, mainly because the originals are unclear, but most works are scanned using OCR (optical character recognition) software.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The Primate of All England spoke of Alexander having conducted the affairs of his Church with so much discretion and prudence, as to give no cause of complaint to the heads of other communions residing in the same city, and to win their respect and esteem by his piety and beneficence, and by his persevering yet temperate zeal in prosecuting the objects of his mission.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Marry, well rememb'red; I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday, Who told me, in the narrow seas that part The French and English, there miscarried A vessel of our country richly fraught.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

How often a man who is in the penitentiary, in the poorhouse, or among the tramps, or living out a miserable existence in the slums of our cities, rough, slovenly, has slumbering within the rags possibilities which would have developed him into a magnificent man, an ornament to the human race instead of a foul blot and ugly scar, had he only been fortunate enough early in life to have enjoyed the benefits of efficient and systematic training!
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

It is not at present our business to treat of empirical illusory appearance (for example, optical illusion), which occurs in the empirical application of otherwise correct rules of the understanding, and in which the judgement is misled by the influence of imagination.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

He was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer no longer possessed a helmet.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Here and there rose great grass mounds, and some miles away towards the centre I thought that I could see the outline of colossal ruins.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

or if our overgrown church revenues in England, and more especially in that still more oppressed country, Ireland, where the bishoprics are in general richer, and many thousands are wrung from a long oppressed and impoverished people, not unfrequently in places where little or no duty is performed, were inquired into?
— from Hulme's Journal, 1818-19; Flower's Letters from Lexington and the Illinois, 1819; Flower's Letters from the Illinois, 1820-21; and Woods's Two Years' Residence, 1820-21 by John Woods

They pay as much for the real thing as for the sham, you see; the defenders of our country risk their lives for about the same consideration.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The use of a patronymic which describes Danae as the daughter (most probably) of Acrisius, in some degree makes it likely that Acrisius either was the brother of Danaus, or otherwise collaterally related, rather than directly descended from him.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek Races by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

We may conclude that Strabo’s stadium varied considerably, as he sometimes received his distance from personal observation or credible report, and often quoted other writers, and reduced other standards, as the mile, the parasang, and the [Pg xii] schœnus, to the stadium.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

She treated her to a dissertation on intaglii, to an argument or two on architecture, and was fervently asking her opinion of certain recently exhibited relics said to be by Benvenuto Cellini, when the door opened and Anne appeared.
— from Anne: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson

What I attribute that state of our commercial relations to, in a great degree, is, the extreme weakness and tottering condition of our naval establishments.
— from Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century by Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of

Disaffection among the soldiers was increased by an order of Colonel Reinhardt, the new Minister of War, defining the respective powers of officers' and the soldiers' councils.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

Mr. Pottle paused, fastened an awful eye on the owner of the voice, and, stepping out of character, remarked, succinctly: "If you interrupt me again, Charlie Meacham, I'll come up there and knock your block off."
— from The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales by Richard Edward Connell

Which reminds me that we have been some time settling down to an exchange of our childhood reminiscences, haven't we?"
— from The Little Warrior by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse