The second point rested entirely upon the letter to Parker and Perry, written in an unknown hand, and upon the letter penned on board the brig Orleans, which, unfortunately, had been mislaid or lost.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

'We cannot be in worse hands than at present,' replied Emily, unguardedly; 'but what reason have you to suppose these are officers of justice?' 'Why OUR people, ma'am, are all in such a fright, and a fuss; and I don't know any thing but the fear of justice, that could make them so.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Vel me monere hoc vel percontari puta: Rectumst, ego ut faciam; non est, te ut deterream.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Pepe Rey estaba un si es no es turbado a causa del giro que diera su tía a una vana disputa festiva en la que tomó parte tan sólo por acalorar un poco la conversación.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

15 —Ya, ya oigo—murmuró Pepe Rey. —Es un grito.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

lo que he leído en la vida de los mártires, cuando se presentaba un procónsul romano en un pueblo de cristianos....
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Facciolatus thus defines the Phallus: "penis ligneus, vel vitreus, vel coriaceus, quem in Bacchi festis plaustro impositum per rura et urbes magno honore circumferebant.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

3. Innovation technologique L'innovation la plus récente est Unicode.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

It casts a halo of romance about them, that they should thus be at home in lands that may perhaps remain ever unvisited by us.
— from In the Open: Intimate Studies and Appreciations of Nature by Stanton Davis Kirkham

Perissoglossa 1 Cuba, Hayti, and Porto Rico E. United States 51.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

But they would at the same time add, that his want of judgment and [p. 419] foresight, in omitting to place the valuable position really exposed under sufficient guard beforehand, and leaving it thus open to the enemy, while he himself was absent in another place which was out of danger, and his easy faith that there would be no dangerous surprise, at a time when the character of the enemy’s officer, as well as the disaffection of the neighbors (Argilus), plainly indicated that there would be, if the least opening were afforded, that these were defects meriting serious reproof, and disqualifying him from any future command of trust and responsibility.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote

[449] "Omnes Cardinales amicos nostros adivi; eisque demonstravi quam temere ac stulte fecerint in Roffensi in Cardinalem eligendo unde et potentissimum Regem et universum Regnum Angliæ mirum in modum lædunt et injuriâ afficiunt; Roffensem enim virum esse gloriosum ut propter vanam gloriam in suâ opinione contra Regem adhuc sit permansurus; quâ etiam de causâ in carcere est et morti condemnatus.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by James Anthony Froude

Vallauris has long been famous for the manufacture of kitchen pottery , “Potteries Réfractaires,” earthenware utensils, principally of the “marmite” or stewpan class, capable of bearing great heat without cracking.
— from The South of France—East Half by C. B. Black

And here Phronsie ran eagerly up the stairs.
— from Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney

Some say that our well-being lies in virtue, others in pleasure, others in submitting to nature; one in knowledge, another in being exempt from pain, another in not suffering ourselves to be carried away by appearances; and this fancy seems to have some relation to that of the ancient Pythagoras, Nil admirari, prope res est una, Numici, Solaque, qu possit facere et servare beatum: “Not to admire’s the only art I know Can make us happy, and can keep us so;” which is the drift of the Pyrrhonian sect; Aristotle attributes the admiring nothing to magnanimity; and Arcesilaus said, that constancy and a right inflexible state of judgment were the true good, and consent and application the sin and evil; and there, it is true, in being thus positive, and establishing a certain axiom, he quitted Pyrrhonism; for the’ Pyrrhonians, when they say that ataraxy, which is the immobility of judgment, is the sovereign good, do not design to speak it affirmatively; but that the same motion of soul which makes them avoid precipices, and take shelter from the cold, presents them such a fancy, and makes them refuse another.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne