C. LES RAYONS ET LES OMBRES XXII.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

If in Germany they serve your meat upon marmalade, or your beef raw, or in Italy give you peas in their pods, or in France offer you frog’s legs and horsesteaks, if you cannot eat the strange viands, make no remarks and repress every look or gesture of disgust.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

The evil faces of the Roman emperors look out at us from the foul porphyry and spotted jasper in which the realistic artists of the day delighted to work, and we fancy that in those cruel lips and heavy sensual jaws we can find the secret of the ruin of the Empire.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

LES RAYONS ET LES OMBRES .—1840.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

My Thoughts of Ye— Dublin University Magazine The Beacon in the Storm Love's Treacherous Pool The Rose and the Grave— A. Lang LES RAYONS ET LES OMBRES.—1840.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Fuseblue peer from barrel rev. evensong Love on hackney jaunt Blazes blind coddoubled bicyclers Dilly with snowcake no fancy clothes.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

A constant stream of colonisation flowed east from Poland (called the Crown or the Kingdom) into Lithuania (p. 168 ), until the gentry of that country became Polish, while the peasantry remained either Lithuanian or Russian.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Angélo , Les Rayons et Les Ombres and Ruy Blas , are there to prove it.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

From that time the countenance of Zeus, or Jupiter, shines out unclouded by responsibility for human misfortunes and earthly evils; and, on the other hand, the [ 422 ] once beautiful Fates are proportionately blackened, and they become hideous hags, the aged and lame crones of popular belief in Greece and Rome, every line of whose ugliness would have disfigured the face of Zeus had he not been subordinated to them.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

In the interview of Paulus Aemilius and Perses, Belisarius might study his part; but it is probable that he never read either Livy or Plutarch; and it is certain that his generosity did not need a tutor.]
— 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

The Great Dane, the Lord High Constable, who was stretched out on his side, with relaxed, enormous limbs, on the hearth-rug, lifted his massive head for a second and glanced at John.
— from Stella Maris by William John Locke

General R. E. Lee, on duty at Richmond, aiding the President in the general direction of military affairs, was now ordered to proceed to western Virginia.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

This story has usually been regarded as one of Defoe’s “lies like truth,” but recent evidence leads one to believe that it is a reportorial account of a ghost story current at the time, which missed being reported to the Society for Psychical Research merely because the organization did not exist then.
— from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction by Dorothy Scarborough

[Pg vi] As for Hans himself, he has become the prototype of a host of less distinguished imitators representing every level of animal life, and when last heard from he was still entertaining mystified audiences by his accomplishments.
— from Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst

A13-24 CE 2208; 1 H 267 (Robert Edward Lee Oswald).
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

His rolling eyes lighted on his two guests, who had lain undisturbed in a drunken stupor.
— from Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang