But I have one principle in my public life, which I should like you to keep in mind; it has always been my guide.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

But its struggles are too far off, too much confused; scarcely can I perceive the colourless reflection in which are blended the uncapturable whirling medley of radiant hues, and I cannot distinguish its form, cannot invite it, as the one possible interpreter, to translate to me the evidence of its contemporary, its inseparable paramour, the taste of cake soaked in tea; cannot ask it to inform me what special circumstance is in question, of what period in my past life.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Preface In my Peasant Life in Bengal I make the peasant boy
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

I was in the studio at eight in the morning, I measured my drawing, I plumbed it throughout, I sketched in, having regard to la jambe qui porte , I modelled par les masses .
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

A subdued murmur passed through the people, and at the next moment the crowd parted in many places, leaving long, wide ways that went out from the foot of the tomb.
— from The White Prophet, Volume 1 (of 2) by Caine, Hall, Sir

I was in the studio at eight in the morning; I measured my drawing; I plumbed it throughout; I sketched in, having regard to la jambe qui porte ; I modelled par les masses .
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

He now put in more powder, loading more deliberately than ever, testing the amount of charge by the finger measurement on the ramrod.
— from The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains by Augustus Henry Irby

I allow no third person to be present in my private lessons, but go on the principle of Paul Heyse’s hero, Edwin, either in open lecture, or unter vier Augen .”
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

Slovenia: unicameral National Assembly or Drzavni Zbor (90 seats, 40 are directly elected and 50 are selected on a proportional basis; note - the numbers of directly elected and proportionally elected seats varies with each election; members are elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms) elections: National Assembly - last held 15 October 2000 (next to be held NA October 2004) election results: percent of vote by party - LDS 36%, SDS 16%, ZLSD 12%, SLS/SKD 10%, NSI 9%, SMS 4%, SNS 4%, DeSUS 5%, other 4%; seats by party - LDS 34, SDS 14, ZLDS 11, SLS/SKD 9, NSI 8, SMS 4, SNS 4, DeSUS 4, other 2 note: the National Council or Drzavni Svet is an advisory body with limited legislative powers; it may propose laws and ask to review any National Assembly decisions; in the election of NA November 1997, 40 members were elected to represent local, professional, and socioeconomic interests (next election to be held in the fall of 2002)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[408] Printed in Migne, Pat. Lat.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

Does humanity, which, according to certain philosophers, is making progress, look on the art of waiting for dead men's shoes as a step in the right direction?
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

My days know thee not; and my lips name thee never; Thy place in my poor life is vacant forever.
— from The Senator's Bride by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Practises as advocate at Scotch Bar. bro , Alexander Bain Chree , died young, having graduated at Aberdeen University with first class honours in mathematics, obtaining prizes in mathematics, physics, Latin, Greek, moral philosophy, and natural history.
— from Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Francis Galton