When these alternatives are fairly presented, Common Sense seems disposed to choose the former: especially as we can now explain its instinctive disinclination to admit Pleasure as ultimate end: while the other alternative leaves us without a criterion for determining the comparative value of different elements of ‘Good.’
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

But on all these points Common Sense seems doubtful: and somewhat similar difficulties present themselves when we endeavour to define the obligation of promises partly obtained by some degree of illegal violence and intimidation.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

—Don Juan, D. Juan—gritó Pepilla.—Por ahí viene su amigo de usted Nicolasito Hernández, o sea Cirio Pascual , con su sombrero de tres pisos.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

En tant qu'auteur, je publie des textes en ligne, soit de manière exclusive (j'ai publié un polar uniquement en ligne et je publie depuis février deux romans-feuilletons écrits spécialement pour ce support), soit de manière complémentaire (mes textes de poésie sont publiés sur papier et en ligne).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Le papier comme support simple de document écrit est un peu limité: texte et image simplement / pas d'évolution en temps réel / reproduction complexe / etc. L'électronique offre beaucoup plus d'avantages.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

shovel, trowel, spoon, spatula, ladle, dipper, tablespoon, watch glass, thimble. closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin, bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of drawers, chest on chest, highboy, lowboy, till, scrutoire|, secretary, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet, canterbury; escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Besides this refined selection of society Anna Pávlovna’s receptions were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the state of the political thermometer of legitimate Petersburg court society so dearly and distinctly indicated.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Then add flour enough to make it of the proper consistency (see Stiff Dough ), using a knife for mixing.
— from School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) Greer

There 'll be high sport round town, when it gets out, and we back water down to the old place. “Come, say something, Delia!”
— from Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine" by Heman White Chaplin

[16] she wore a very large turban, which seemed to be of pale cashmere shawls, so disposed as to conceal the hair; her dress, from the chin down to the point at which it was concealed by the drapery which she held over her lap, was a mass of white linen loosely folding—an ecclesiastical sort of affair, more like a surplice than any of those blessed creations which our souls love under the names of “dress” and “frock” and “boddice” and “collar” and “habit-shirt” and sweet “chemisette.”
— from Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake

India may be called a paradise of flowers: the most beautiful lilies grow spontaneously upon the sandy shores of the rivers, and from every projecting cliff some shrub dips its flowers in the waters below."
— from Everyday Objects; Or, Picturesque Aspects of Natural History. by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

Magulang aco cania I am twenty-five years old Caloha-an ug lima ca tuig na ang edad co Do not let him to come in Ayao ca pagpasulud cania Do not let him to do that Dili nimo sia pabuhaton niana Do not permit him to spend the money Ayao ca pagpausic cania sa salapi Do not permit her to go to the ball Ayao pagtuguti sia sa pagadto sa sayaoan Do not allow him to gamble Ayao pagtuguti sia
— from Mga Paquigpulong sa Iningles ug Binisaya by Gregorio de Santiago Vela

Place chicken skin side down on broiler rack.
— from The Perdue Chicken Cookbook by Mitzi Perdue

Sir Percy Carlyon sat soberly drinking his tea like a true-born Briton, but inwardly he was not at peace.
— from The Whirl: A Romance of Washington Society by Foxcroft Davis