Algeria possesses valuable minerals, including iron, copper, lead, sulphur, zinc, antimony, marble (white and red), phosphate, and lithographic stone.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

This speech affected all present very much; with the exception of the old General, who only bowed and did not speak: but when he went home he was heard muttering “Magny sans tache, Magny sans tache!” and was attacked with paralysis that night, from which he never more than partially recovered.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Setting her own inclination apart, to have failed a second time in her engagement to Miss Tilney, to have retracted a promise voluntarily made only five minutes before, and on a false pretence too, must have been wrong.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

This explains the fact that we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

SYN: Diffuse, lengthy, tedious, circumlocutory, prosaic, verbose, minute, toilsome, wordy.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

ἐβεβήλωσα, to profane, pollute, violate, Mat. 12.5.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

As the bold eagle with fierce sorrow stung, Or parent vulture, mourns her ravish'd young; They cry, they scream, their unfledged brood a prey To some rude churl, and borne by stealth away: So they aloud: and tears in tides had run, Their grief unfinish'd with the setting sun; But checking the full torrent in its flow, The prince thus interrupts the solemn woe.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

The wind blue very hard the forepart of last night but abated toward morning; it again arose in the after part of this day and retarded our progress very much.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

E perche' tu piu` volentier mi rade le 'nvetriate lagrime dal volto, sappie che, tosto che l'anima trade come fec'io, il corpo suo l'e` tolto da un demonio, che poscia il governa mentre che 'l tempo suo tutto sia volto.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

For the English of three hundred years ago we need a glossary, and to carry down his immortal thoughts in their pristine vigor, must have, every two hundred years, a Johnson to modernize a Shakspeare.
— from Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41 by Unknown

In these days of universal attainments, when Science becomes not merely a luxury to the rich, but bread to the poor, and when the very amusements as well as the conveniences of life have taken a scientific colour, it is reasonable to hope that the present volume may be acceptable to a large class of seekers after “things not generally known.”
— from Curiosities of Science, Past and Present A Book for Old and Young by John Timbs

“The contraction of the uterus, which comes on with the rupture of the membranes, and sometimes, where they protrude very much, even before, is of great importance.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

The President visits Mount Vernon.... Session of congress....
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

"Yes, Mr. President; very much."
— from Tom Strong, Lincoln's Scout A Story of the United States in the Times That Tried Men's Souls by Alfred Bishop Mason

It came in spite of something that could only be named his air of wishing to put it off; an air that had served him—oh as all his airs served him!—to the extent of his having for a couple of hours confined the conversation to gratuitous jokes and generalities, kept it on the level of the little empty coffee-cups and petits verres (Mrs. Wix had two of each!) that struck Maisie, through the fumes of the French fire and the English tobacco, as a token more than ever that they were launched.
— from What Maisie Knew by Henry James

Pristinæ virtutis memores.
— from The Regimental Records of the British Army A historical résumé chronologically arranged of titles, campaigns, honours, uniforms, facings, badges, nicknames, etc. by John S. Farmer

Barbezieux used to annoy people very much by answering aloud when they spoke to him in whispers, and by keeping visitors waiting whilst he was playing with his dogs or some base parasite.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de