For the Chantals all that part of Paris situated on the other side of the Seine constitutes the new quarter, a section inhabited by a strange, noisy population, which cares little for honor, spends its days in dissipation, its nights in revelry, and which throws money out of the windows.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

We have had the privilege of perusing some of the proposals addressed to her, and we have read the cruel novel Alphonse Karr prided himself on having written about her.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

There were two gilt pier-glasses, and a buffet, on which a few pieces of plate, set out to the most shew, dazzled, and altogether persuaded me that I must be got into a very reputable family.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

The present, or perfect subjunctive, or the future participle with a form of sim , is used in sentences subordinate to a primary tense ( 1717 ): as, ( a. ) tē hortor, ut Rōmam pergās , QFr.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

—‘A man named Caffney cut as fuel to boil his pot of potatoes some of these undisturbed bushes round which the fairies pass.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Like Sarmiento the Spaniard, who when he was sent to discover the straits of Magellan, and confine places, by the Prorex of Peru, standing on the top of a hill, Amaenissimam planitiem despicere sibi visus fuit, aedificia magnifica, quamplurimos Pagos, alias Turres, splendida Templa , and brave cities, built like ours in Europe, not, saith mine [2695] author, that there was any such thing, but that he was vanissimus et nimis credulus , and would fain have had it so.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Do either pain or pleasure seize on thee?
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

[63] In a volume of philosophical Romance some unknown Gulliver of the 19th century bestows many pages of pleasant satire on the Utilitarian principle, assumed as a maxim of social life and pushed to its ultimate conclusions.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

His father was for a time to assist Uncle Nathan upon the farm; and under pretence of performing some of the lighter work Ephraim usually came to the farm with him, but it was very little work which his father or any one else got out of him; but it seemed an understood thing that Cousin Silas and his family were to be borne with, and they endeavored to bear the infliction with as good a grace as possible.
— from Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past by Harriet S. Caswell

A grand [39] piano and pots of palms stood on the platform, and the best school banner ornamented the wall.
— from A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

Not very closely unless he tries to pawn, or produces, some of the stolen stuff—not any more closely than George has coupled himself with it!
— from The Winning Clue by James Hay

Black piles of peat stood on the solitary ground, ready, after a summer's cutting and drying.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden

She has her own scale of values for these mementos, and knows nothing of the market price of precious stones or the costly splendour of rare orchids.
— from Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness by Henry Van Dyke

The fact of duty, the existence of a categorical command to act thus and so, no matter what the pressure of physical surroundings or the incitation of animal inclinations, is as much a fact as the existence of knowledge of the physical world.
— from German philosophy and politics by John Dewey

Success in the courts, the power of public speaking, opened the way to success in politics, though it was long before any one could go far along that road who had not won distinction as a soldier.
— from Ancient Rome: The Lives of Great Men by Mary Agnes Hamilton

Other names suggested were those of the young Dom Pedro of Portugal (son of the Prince-Regent John), and of Prince Leopold, the son of Ferdinand IV of Sicily.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman