He invited the widow as well as the blooming maiden of sixteen, and addressed them in printed documents, bearing his signature, in which he specified the sum the ladies must possess; he expected less property with youth than age or widowhood; adding that few ladies would be eligible that did not possess at least 10,000 l. a year, which, however, was nothing compared to the honour his high birth and noble descent would confer; the incredulous he referred to Nash's Worcestershire .
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

But, whether or not we may be disposed to assign to it a character of so much authority as M. Bourgoing attributes to that document, we cannot but regard it as a curious illustration of the kind of memoirs that Russian diplomatists, "les plus habils et les plus instuits," present to the Emperor, and that the Russian government "tacitly consents" to have transmitted to a German capital to be printed "sur-le-champ."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849 by Various

They had been driven to the conviction that, while the best men of both parties acknowledged the justice and equity of their claims, these best men, aristocrats as well as Populares, had equally little power to procure ahearing for those claims with the mass of their party.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

"Nos vaillants soldats se conduisent de manière à inspirer la plus haute estime, la plus grande admiration à l'étranger."— Discours de M. Thiers, à l'Assemblée Nationale le 24 Mai 1871.
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray

The Session of Parliament has ended, leaving Peel quite as powerful, or more so, than he was at the beginning of it.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

Rabelais in his Pantagruel says of Panurge:—“ Toutesfois il avoit soixante et trois manières d’en trouver toujours à son besoing ( de l’argent ), dont la plus honorable et la plus commune estoit par façon de larrecin furtivement faict. ”
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

[1285] ‘Le cardinal de Richelieu, qui n'étoit pas très-susceptible de pitié, l'appelle “le plus hardi et le plus barbare conseil dont l'histoire de tous les siècles précédens fasse mention.”’ Sismondi , Histoire des Français , vol.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

la plus haute estime, la plus grand sympathie.
— from At the Sign of the Sword: A Story of Love and War in Belgium by William Le Queux

One notable Inca, the male of which is armed with a powerful head excrescence, lives principally on the sap of wounded trees; Lycus appendiculatus frequents chiefly the flowers of Umbelliferae; many Curculionides inhabit the plants of the family Compositae, but Coccinellae are the most numerous.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

If so, he will find it to be identical with the Scænica Progymnasmata h. e. Ludicra Præexercitamenta of Reuchlin, first printed at Strasburg in 1497, and frequently reprinted during the first part of the sixteenth century, often with a commentary by Jacob Spiegel.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849 by Various