As the tunnel advanced into the rock every day promised to be the golden day.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Once when I was in a happy, dreamy mood, I asked her at dinner (we had soup and roast meat sent in from a restaurant every day): "Polya, do you believe in God?"
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Rien n'est plus estimable que la civilité; mais rien de plus ridicule, et de plus à charge, que la cérémonie —Nothing is more estimable then politeness, and nothing more ridiculous or tiresome than ceremony.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

— N. word, term, vocable; name &c. 564; phrase &c. 566; root, etymon; derivative; part of speech &c. (grammar) 567; ideophone[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Omnino fortis animus et magnus duabus rebus maxime cernitur, quarum una in rerum externarum despicientia ponitur, cum persuasum est
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

la brigada que ha venido a este país, y que se ha repartido entre diferentes pueblos.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

‘I have further interpleaded for secondary and excised the four principal terminants, all of which are duly stamped, passed, filed, recorded, exuded, denoted, permuted, polluted and redeemed.’
— from The Mercy of Allah by Hilaire Belloc

As to storing plants , a box of sand placed in a dry corner where no drip can reach it, is best for this, burying the roots of dahlias, etc., fairly deep in it, and withholding water till the spring, when they may be taken out, each root examined, decayed parts removed, and every healthy plant repotted.
— from Small Gardens, and How to Make the Most of Them by Violet Purton Biddle

Rich English dyspeptics, poverty-stricken princes, Austrian diplomats, come to cure their hypochondria; French décorés , to try their new cabals and martingales; British snobs, to indulge the luxury of grumbling,—all of them found some strange attraction in the "Violette Anglaise."
— from Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

They gratefully receive the superfluities which the more favoured are always found ready to share with the afflicted in India; and though their sufferings often subdue the strongest of all pride—the pride of caste, they rarely ever drive people to acts of violence.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden

en Hespaña parece mas conveniente remitirle el dinero para que lo compre en Berberia;” countersigned by Fernando Ruiz de Contreras, one of the Royal Secretaries f. 148 77.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

See also for what concerns the election of the Russian bishops the Règlement ecclésiastique de Pierre le Grand , avec introduction, notes, etc., par le R. P. Cæsarius Tondini. Paris: Libr.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

He had lived in foreign lands far from his birthplace, but the purpose to return ever dwelt pleasurably in his mind.
— from Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe

(1875), particularly valuable for foreign relations; Edward Dowden, Puritan and Anglican (1901), an interesting study of literary and intellectual England in the seventeenth century; John Lingard, History of England to 1688 , new ed.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes