"You are too magnanimous and retiring," expostulated Paul Petrovitch.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Related Words : Año nuevo , New Year’s Day ; Día de Reyes , Epiphany ; miércoles de Ceniza , Ash Wednesday ; Pascua de Resurrección , Easter ; Pentecostés , Pentecost or Whitsunday ; Corpus , Corpus Christi ; Día de Todos los Santos , All Saints’ Day ; Día de Difuntos , All Souls’ Day ; Noche Buena , Christmas Eve ; Navidad , Christmas ; día de los Santos Inocentes , December 28 .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

2. ¿Qué refirió el portero por la noche?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Videns indisciplinatam et alienam gentem Normannorum, crudeli et inaudita rabie, et plusquam Pagana impietate, adversus ecclesias Dei insurgere, passim Christianos trucidare, &c., (Wibert, c. 6.)
— 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

Reason expresses purpose, purpose expresses impulse, and impulse expresses a natural body with self-equilibrating powers.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

[60] From Robert E. Park, Principles of Human Behavior , pp. 9-16.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

[87] From Robert E. Park, Principles of Human Behavior , pp. 1-9.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Tum corpus leônis ad oppidum in umerîs reportâvit et pellem posteâ prô 7 veste gerêbat.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

I wis That never the rosy-hued deity knew One votary out of that sallow-cheek'd crew Of Courlanders, Wallacs, Greeks, affable Russians, Explosive Parisians, potato-faced Prussians; Jews—Hamburghers chiefly;—pure patriots,—Suabians;— "Cappadocians and Elamites, Cretes and Arabians, And the dwellers in Pontus"...
— from Lucile by Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of

me graceful Italian simplicity were better here'; and he built a very pleasant mansion, unturreted, without tortured elegancies—a long, low, broad-windowed country retreat, each proportion perfect, each line harmonious.
— from A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

Brethren and sisters, sing,— "Where shall the guilty soul find rest?" etc. Parson Peabody
— from The Mormon Prophet and His Harem Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children by C. V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg) Waite

No ruler, except possibly Peter the Great, ever gave so many ex cathedra opinions on so many different subjects in the same length of time, and of course it cannot be supposed that he has not made mistakes, but it shows that it is only by prodigious industry that he has been able to gather the materials on which these utterances are based.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various

Dr. Franklin was nothing but a soap-boiler when he commenced; Roger Sherman was only a cobbler, and kept a book by his side on the bench; Ben Jonson was a mason and worked at his trade, with a trowel in one hand and a book in the other; John Hunter, the celebrated physiologist, was once a carpenter, working at day labor; John Foster was a weaver in his early life, and so was Dr. Livingstone, the missionary traveller; an American President was a hewer of wood in his youth, and hence he replied to a person who asked him what was his coat of arms, "A pair of shirt sleeves;" Washington was a farmer's boy, not ashamed to dirty his hands in cultivating the soil; John Opie, the renowned English portrait painter, sawed wood for a living before he became professor of painting in the Royal Academy; and hundreds of other distinguished men commenced their career in business no more respectable; but not one of them felt that dignity was compromised by their humble vocation.
— from The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning by William Makepeace Thayer