Some people have the unfortunate habit of brooding over their past lives, castigating themselves for their shortcomings and mistakes, until their whole vision is turned backward instead of forward, and they see everything in a distorted light, because they are looking only on the shadow side.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

[54] la razón por la cual , the reason why .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

In Scotland, however, the mantlings of peers have always been lined with ermine, and the present Lyon continues this whilst usually making the colours of the outside of the mantlings agree with the principal colour of the arms.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

But even at this point Levin could not escape another agony.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Quando Jongeſſemo aLa cita ſteſſemo forſi due hore neli prao fin q̃ venirono dui elephanti coperti de ſeta et dudizi homini cõ vno vazo ꝓ vno de porce lana coperto deſeta
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The top of the protecting levee could be seen here and there, but nearly all of it was submerged.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Qué son las estrellas sino tu brillante séquito, tu numerosa corte, que tarda una noche entera en desfilar por los cielos?
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

[2] PEPPER, LOVAGE, CELERY SEED, CUMIN, ORIGANY, DRY ONION, RAISINS, HONEY, VINEGAR, WINE, BROTH, OIL, AND REDUCED MUST.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

I can’t help feeling pleased the poor little chap has fallen on his feet; but the plain fact is, I’m in terror of his turning up any minute and telling me he’s carved his way in the world—as he certainly has.”
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The senate, affected by the supplications of the Alexandrians, immediately sent Caius Popilius Lænas, Caius Decimius, and Caius Hostilius, ambassadors, to put an end to the dispute between those kings.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

One night, when enveloped in a long cloak, and her fair hair hidden under a black hood, she was wandering, according to custom, about the suburbs of the city, she found herself—without knowing how she came there—before the poor little church of St. John the Baptist.
— from Thais by Anatole France

The Marquis, having effected a junction with the Pennsylvania line consisting of eight hundred men, recrossed the Rapidan, and advanced with so much celerity towards the British army, that he encamped within a few miles of it, while upwards of a day's march from its point of destination.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

Industrial production: growth rate 2.3% (1992); accounts for 35% of GDP Electricity: capacity: 3,650,000 kW production: 8.18 billion kWh (1992) consumption per capita: 740 kWh (1992) Industries: mining, steel, clothing and footwear, chemicals, foodstuffs, fertilizer, beverage, transportation equipment, wood products Agriculture: accounts for 20% of GDP and employs 74% of population; 40% of land area divided into 4,500 large commercial farms and 42% in communal lands; crops - corn (food staple), cotton, tobacco, wheat, coffee, sugarcane, peanuts; livestock - cattle, sheep, goats, pigs; self-sufficient in food Economic aid: NA Currency: 1 Zimbabwean dollar (Z$) = 100 cents Exchange rates: Zimbabwean dollars (Z$) per US$1 - 8.1037 (January 1994), 6.4725 (1993), 5.1046 (1992), 3.4282 (1991), 2.4480 (1990), 2.1133 (1989) Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June @Zimbabwe, Communications Railroads: 2,745 km 1.067-meter gauge (including 42 km double track, 355 km electrified)
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Holding his hands in hers:—“Out of the Piedmont lion Cometh the sweetness of freedom!
— from The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 4 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

122 'Un fosse ont d'une part fait Qui parmi la champaigne vait * * * *
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

Though the news appeared so unbelievable and the character of the Syrian priest little calculated to inspire confidence in his statements, it still seemed to me of sufficient importance for me to ask my friends to make further inquiries in India, where other copies ought still to be in existence.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

No third person listening could have thoroughly understood the impetuosity of Will's repulse or the bitterness of his words.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

St. Mary’s Cemetery, Putney, Putney Lower Common, S.W. 3 1855 11.
— from The London Burial Grounds Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Isabella M. Holmes