[ The expressions of Cardinal de Retz are positive and picturesque: On y vecut toujours ensemble avec le même respect, et la même civilité que l'on observe dans le cabinet des rois, avec la même politesse qu'on avoit dans la cour de Henri III., avec la même familiarité que l'on voit dans les colleges; avec la même modestie, qui se remarque dans les noviciats; et avec la même charité, du moins en apparence, qui pourroit ètre entre des frères parfaitement unis.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Rien ne s'anéantit; non, rien, et la matière, / Comme un fleuve éternel, roule toujours entière —Nothing is annihilated, no, nothing; matter, like an ever-flowing stream, still rolls on undiminished.
— 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.

This was, indeed, bad enough, but matters were much aggravated when the Senate ordered him to take action in all important questions, only after deliberation with his officers, and to refer every loading measure to a commission.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

The rest either love me, or at least do not show otherwise, though I know Sir W. Pen to be a false knave touching me, though he seems fair.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

no entendía 05 de letra, [77-2] y codicioso y trabajador con fruto, como lo acreditaba, no solamente su apodo, sino también su mucha hacienda, por él adquirida a fuerza de buenas o malas artes, y representada en las mejores suertes de tierra de aquella jurisdicción, tomó a censo enfitéutico
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

—Usted no entiende de mujeres, tío—dijo Remedios con lisonjera hipocresía;—usted es un santo varón; usted no comprende que lo de Rosarito no es más que un caprichillo 25 de esos que pasan, de esos que se curan con un par de refregones en los morros o media docena de azotes.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Et le bras resta entre les mains du garçon: c'était un bras de bois.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

It was too hot for them to move far; they gathered round every little milk-bush, as though they hoped to find shade, and stood there motionless in clumps.
— from The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner

By means of this half-million of increased taxation, and the £1,150,000 of reduced expenditure, Lord Mayo hoped to cover the estimated deficit of the current year, namely, £1,650,000.
— from Rulers of India: The Earl of Mayo by William Wilson Hunter

The countless tombs in the immediate vicinity of this ruined edifice led M. Laborde to remark on the extraordinary taste of the people of Petra, in selecting a place of amusement, encircled on all sides by the mansions and memorials of death!
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

Tunc reverendus Episcopus Legionensis Manricus ejusdem Sedis Ecclesiam fundavit opere magno, sed eam ad perfectionem non duxit.”
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

As for Mrs. Titus, that really engaging lady made life so easy for me that I wondered why I had ever been apprehensive.
— from A Fool and His Money by George Barr McCutcheon

L'anima d'ogne bruto e de le piante di complession potenziata tira lo raggio e 'l moto de le luci sante; ma vostra vita sanza mezzo spira la somma beninanza,
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

By David Eugene Smith, William David Reeve & Edward Longworth Morss.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1964 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office