Coquenard was not less affected by it on her part, for she added, “My cousin will not return if he finds that we do not treat him kindly; but otherwise he has so little time to pass in Paris, and consequently to spare to us, that we must entreat him to give us every instant he can call his own previous to his departure.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

He was a professor in Paris, and chief physician at the Hospital St. Louis.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Again, individual genius works ever under conditions of time and place: its products are coloured by the varying aspects of nature, and type of human form, and outward manners of life.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

To do these things means to have a mind—for mind is precisely intentional purposeful activity controlled by perception of facts and their relationships to one another.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

I say that the oldest religious and political institutions present a close analogy.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

característica , f. , actress who takes character parts in plays and comedies.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

But will you never be called to answer for organizing the instincts of self-aggrandizement of whole peoples into perfection and calling it good?
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

Were it not for the limitations of matter and the accidental crowding and conflict of life, all existing natures might subsist and prosper in peace and concord, just as their various ideas live without contradiction in the realm of conceptual truth.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

That he performed it properly all competent evidence shows, a foolish, inconclusive, and I fear it must be said emphatically snobbish story of Walpole's notwithstanding.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

The first story, though only a fragment of a projected novel to be called "A Russian Proprietor," is perfect and complete in itself.
— from A Russian Proprietor, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“Sir,” replied Father Magowan, “there is nothing further on that point necessary—the proof is plain and clear; and now, Bryan M'Mahon, give me your hand, for it is that of an honest man—I am proud to see that you stand pure and unsullied again; and it shall be my duty to see that justice shall be rendered!
— from The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

The Civil War continued in Spain through the year, and intermittent rioting took place in Portugal, a country which was now verging on bankruptcy.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

Nor was this distinction in general one of place alone: in most of the wealthy and noble houses of the period, it portended a corresponding distinction in the quality of the food.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Various

AN IMITATION OF ANACREON PAINTER in Paphos and Cythera famed Depict, I pray, the absent Iris' face.
— from Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 10 by Jean de La Fontaine

Personally, I prefer a city with a future so unknown that it excites my imagination.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

"Penelope is pretty and clever, and— and taking, and—and now she has a beautiful voice, and I have nothing.
— from The Carroll Girls by Mabel Quiller-Couch

The ground became higher, the banks being precipitous in places, and covered with long rank grass.
— from Rounding up the Raider: A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman