By what right do men touch that unknown thing?”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Nous sommes en permanence à la recherche de nouveaux projets: - dans ce qu'on appelle la "maîtrise d'ouvrage" de systèmes d'information, pour accompagner les entreprises dans leurs démarches informatiques (projets de conseil), - dans ce qu'on appelle la "maîtrise d'oeuvre", pour réaliser des modules techniques qui s'intègrent dans un processus d'informatisation et de communication.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

This being before breakfast, rather disposed me, I confess, to nausea; but looking attentively at one of the expectorators, I plainly saw that he was young in chewing, and felt inwardly uneasy, himself.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

XLI Nothing so much degrades the tone of a style as an effeminate and hurried movement in the language, 78 such as is produced by pyrrhics and trochees and dichorees falling in time together into a regular dance measure.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Loose, skimming reading, and drifting habits of reading destroy memory power.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

If, however, the embassy he required did make its appearance, it was his intention to reveal matters of importance to them, for the salvation of their souls, and salutary to their whole existence; he would then also look upon them as friends and brothers, in the same way as he considered their neighbours the Tlascallans.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

"Well," began she, chuckling, "and what sort of a reception did Madame Walravens give you?
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

So his repentance does me no good; I wish it may him.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

The second guard's insane repetitions directed most of them in his direction; and they piled in a crowd around him.
— from The Bluff of the Hawk by Anthony Gilmore

I should deem myself to act most unworthily, did I not here declare my obligations to Governor Macquarie for the truly polite and invariable attention I received during my stay.
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid

The result disappointed me; she was not afraid of these two poor old women.
— from The Mayor's Wife by Anna Katharine Green

Major infectious diseases: degree of risk: high food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever vectorborne diseases: malaria respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis animal contact disease: rabies water contact disease: schistosomiasis (2008) Nationality: noun: Ethiopian(s) adjective: Ethiopian Ethnic groups: Oromo 32.1%, Amara 30.1%, Tigraway 6.2%, Somalie 5.9%, Guragie 4.3%, Sidama 3.5%, Welaita 2.4%, other 15.4% (1994 census) Religions: Christian 60.8% (Orthodox 50.6%, Protestant 10.2%), Muslim 32.8%, traditional 4.6%, other 1.8% (1994 census) Languages: Amarigna 32.7%, Oromigna 31.6%, Tigrigna 6.1%, Somaligna 6%, Guaragigna 3.5%, Sidamigna 3.5%, Hadiyigna 1.7%, other 14.8%, English (major foreign language taught in schools) (1994 census) Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 42.7% male: 50.3% female: 35.1% (2003 est.)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Sufficient insight into the formal rules of morality has been given in the extracts above, nor does the epic in this regard differ much from the law-books.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

"Now you have seen what is before us," resumed Du Mesne.
— from The Mississippi Bubble How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for One John Law of Lauriston by Emerson Hough

But you would really do me a favor, if--pray sit down again and put the poker down!--well!
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Yet I could not but apprehend that her defective moral education, her inflammable and reckless disposition, might make me one day repent of my cordiality and intimacy.
— from The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the Second by Carlo Gozzi

Then, as his companion, moving away, simply threw up her hands, "I never looked at you—not to call looking—till she had regularly driven me to it," he went on.
— from The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James

Above an early Renaissance door, made when the building was converted into a sacristy for the later church, is encrusted a piece of ninth-century sculpture, with the usual arches, crosses, and palmettes, and in the adjoining wall is an oculus with an ornamented moulding.
— from The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson