Me cuesta trabajo imaginar que veremos muy pronto instrumentos capaces de traducir las subtilezas del modo de pensar propias de un país: en este caso se debería, no sólo traducir el lenguaje sino de establecer pasarelas de sensibilidad.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

PRICE, worth, excellence. PRICK, point, dot used in the writing of Hebrew and other languages.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

They would be seen cleaning the kitchen, rubbing the tiles, splitting wood, peeling potatoes, doing up all the housework like four good sons around their mother.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

If it had concerned either of the political parties, depend upon it, it would have appeared in the Gazette with the earliest intelligence.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Moreover, the speed of pizzicato playing depends upon the thickness of the strings; on the double basses, for instance, it must always be much slower than on the violins.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

These ten lines are a substitution for, and not a translation of the text which Carey and Marshman thus render: “This mountain adorned with mango, jumboo, usuna, lodhra, piala, punusa, dhava, unkotha, bhuvya, tinisha, vilwa, tindooka, bamboo, kashmaree, urista, uruna, madhooka, tilaka, vuduree, amluka, nipa, vetra, dhunwuna, veejaka, and other trees affording flowers, and fruits, and the most delightful shade, how charming does it appear!”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Barnaby Rudge called equally vivid attention to the laws which placed political disabilities upon Jews and Roman Catholics, rendering them incapable of voting and holding office throughout the British dominions, and sought to remove the hatred, prejudice, and dissensions which unnatural acts of Parliament always caused.
— from Living the Radiant Life: A Personal Narrative by George Wharton James

The soldierly qualities that made him a commander did not qualify him for public place dependent upon the suffrage of men.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

The weak point in such administrative organization is undoubtedly the relation between the members of the governor's council and their chiefs of staff; but there must be a weak link in any organization which seeks to convert the changing views of public policy, dependent upon an election, into responsible, efficient, and detailed administrative acts.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

A poure parson dwelling upon lond, Upon a day he gat him more monie Than that the parson gat in monthes tweie.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

Intense physical pain dawned upon him at the same time, pain that was anguish, thrilling through every nerve, so that he pleaded feverishly for death, not knowing what he said.
— from Rosa Mundi and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

Next in order, we come to consider some of the many instances in Aristophanes of what may be called optical humour—that in which the point principally depends upon the eye.
— from History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange