Vel honorum desperatione vel malorum perpessione fracti el fatigati, plures violentas manus sibi inferunt.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[392] seek for any cure of it, for pauci vident morbum suum, omnes amant .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Grief is attended with enviousness ( invidentia )—I use that word for instruction’s sake, though it is not so common; because envy ( invidia ) takes in not only the person who envies, but the person, too, who is envied—emulation, detraction, pity, vexation, mourning, sadness, tribulation, sorrow, lamentation, solicitude, disquiet of mind, pain, despair, and many other similar feelings are so too.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Le point de départ est évidemment: "on ne doit pas voler, même si c'est facile".
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

There was a kind of breathless stillness in the chambers, that permitted her to distinguish from below the tender notes of the very lute she had formerly heard, and with it, a plaintive voice, made sweeter by the low rustling sound, that now began to creep along the wood-tops, till it was lost in the rising wind.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Praise helps people very much, sometimes.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

By “what was due from the Ryazán estate” Prince Vasíli meant several thousand rubles quitrent received from Pierre’s peasants, which the prince had retained for himself.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“Oh—ho, where is the owner of the hut?” cried Pinocchio, very much surprised.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

There is a smaller, but very distinct, gap in the country occupied by the Belgæ, between it and the French field, and another, but practically very much smaller one, between it and the British isles.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

This phenomenon of a heavy body sustained in the air, off its centre of gravity and resisting a pressure of twelve or fifteen pounds, very much surprised and astonished the learned gentlemen, who attributed it to the action of an unknown magnetic force.
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - RDCP 133, SDF 21, UDC 5, other 21 note: the constitution calls for an upper chamber for the legislature, to be called a Senate, but it has yet to be established Canada bicameral Parliament or Parlement consists of the Senate or Senat (members appointed by the governor general with the advice of the prime minister and serve until reaching 75 years of age; its normal limit is 105 senators) and the House of Commons or Chambre des Communes (308 seats; members elected by direct, popular vote to serve for up to five-year terms) elections: House of Commons - last held 23 January 2006 (next to be held in 2011) election results: House of Commons - percent of vote by party - Conservative Party 36.3%, Liberal Party 30.2%, New Democratic Party 17.5%, Bloc Quebecois 10.5%, Greens 4.5%, other 1%; seats by party - Conservative Party 124, Liberal Party 102, New Democratic Party 29, Bloc Quebecois 51, other 2; seats by party as of February 2007 - Conservative Party 125, Liberal Party 100, New Democratic Party 29, Bloc Quebecois 51, other 2 Cape Verde unicameral National Assembly or Assembleia Nacional (72 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) elections: last held 22 January 2006 (next to be held in January 2011) election results: percent of vote by party - PAICV 52.3%, MPD 44%, UCID 2.7%; seats by party - PAICV 41, MPD 29, ADM 2 Cayman Islands unicameral Legislative Assembly (18 seats, 3 appointed members from the Executive Council and 15 elected by popular vote; members serve four-year terms) elections: last held 11 May 2005 (next to be held in 2009) election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PPM 9, UDP 5, independent 1 Central African Republic unicameral National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (109 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) elections: last held 13 March 2005 and 8 May 2005 (next to be held NA 2010)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"Lord lovesh my papa vewy much, so I love ze Lord vewy much," remarked Toddie.
— from Helen's Babies by John Habberton

Paracelsus , Faber , and some others, make mention of Arsnical Preparations, that procure but little Pain in their Operation; I had a Design of making a Trial of some of these Remedies, had I not in my Enquiries met with what was very satisfactory to me, though after knowing what I have related, I should have always cautiously avoided the use of any Remedy, in which the Arsnick had not undergone such a Preparation as I should have approved of, because I am assured it may procure very mischievious Symptoms, though in Substance, it do not so much as touch the Skin, witness the Amulets , in which it has been the chief Ingredient, and of which there have been such direful Accidents related by Crato , Massaria , and Zacutus Lucitanus .
— from A Collection of Chirurgical Tracts by William Beckett

Jolicœur Isle aux Noix St. Johns Isle Perrot Isle Perrot Vaudreuil Marie S. Jobin Isle Verte Isle Verte Temiscouata Louis Bertrand Islington Etobicoke York, W. R. Thomas Musson Ivanhoe Huntingdon Hastings, N. R. Thomas Emo [26] Ivy Essa Simcoe, S. R. T. D. McDonald Janetville Manvers Durham, E. R. J. McDermid Jarratt’s
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1864 by Canada. Post Office Department

It was restored in 1867 by Baron Haussmann, who converted it into a museum for preserving various monuments, statues, inscriptions, tombstones, ornaments, and objects of various kinds, proceeding from the wholesale {68} demolition to which sundry streets and even whole quarters of Paris were at that time being subjected, under the orders of Baron Haussmann himself in his capacity of Prefect of the Seine.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

“Mademoiselle does not seem to have enjoyed Paris very much,” said Savinien at last, somewhat piqued.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac