They really are a very ancient Norman family of the generalship of Caen.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

We do not wonder that his earlier publication has been received as a valuable addition, not only to English, but to European literature.”
— from John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friar Roger de Flor soon acquired renown as a very able naval commander.
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

There is no Colosseum, as at Rome; no Acropolis, as at Athens; no Rialto, as at Venice; and no Kremlin, as at Moscow; nothing identified with the men and scenes hallowed in our eyes, and nothing that can touch the heart.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

He makes love to the Ladies of the Court, forgets that he is naught but a Rogue and a Vagabond and not worthy to be seen in the company of Gentlemen.
— from His Majesty's Well-Beloved An Episode in the Life of Mr. Thomas Betteron as told by His Friend John Honeywood by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

We do not wonder that his earlier publication has been received as a valuable addition, not only to English, but to European literature."
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

intermedius I have little to say in addition to the character given above: I have seen only two groups of specimens in Mr. Cuming's collection: the chief interest in this variety is that it shows that the next form must be ranked as a variety, and not as a distinct species.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

[xiv] erty in this respect, whose resources are as various as numerous, and are comparable to the freedom and caprices of a dancer, who can at any moment surprise by a gesture, and be still.
— from Purcell Ode, and Other Poems by Robert Bridges

Some join the socialists; a few escape to Rome; there at least the worldliness, however conspicuous, is regarded as a vice and not as a virtue.
— from Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies by George Santayana

I would have proclaimed liberty to all the slaves in Russia, and abolished vassalage and nobility.
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 2 (of 2) by John Ashton