5 By the great stones we chose our ground For shade; and there, in converse sweet, Took luncheon.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

without ( § 209 ) singulī, -ae, -a , distributive numeral adj. one at a time, single ( § 334 ) sinister, -tra, -trum , adj. left Sinuessa, -ae , f. Sinues´sa , a town in Campania.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Soon after this it chanced that the poor widow sent her children to the town to purchase cotton, needles, ribbon, and tape.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

“Is it possible,” I cried, clasping my hands, “that such a trivial incident could give rise to such a resolution in you?”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

but she answered that I could only change my linen on a Sunday, and laughed at me when I threatened to complain to the mistress.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

For, from the earliest times, nothing has ever made a deeper impression upon the German soul, nothing has ever “tempted” it more, than that deduction, the most dangerous of all, which for every true Latin is a sin against the intellect: credo quia absurdum est .—With
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In 1752 Fréron, in Lettres sur quelques écrits du temps , wrote pointedly of Voltaire as one who chose to be all things to all men, and Voltaire retaliated by references such as these in Candide .
— from Candide by Voltaire

He knew the road and the whole district so well, and the lines about ‘snowy circles wheeling wild’ described what was happening outside so aptly that it cheered him up.
— from Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Neither of them had much in common with Mr. Adams, who was a younger man, greatly biassed by his father, and by the inherited feud between Quincy and State Street; but personal relations were friendly as far as a boy could see, and the innumerable cousins went regularly to the First Church every Sunday in winter, and slept through their uncle's sermons, without once thinking to ask what the sermons were supposed to mean for them.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

As soon as the Irish couple had gone the clerk came toward the boy.
— from Joe the Hotel Boy; Or, Winning out by Pluck by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

But these are all none the less linked by one inseverable bond; it is the microscope; and while, amid the inconceivable diversity of its applications, it remains manifest that this society has for its primary object the constant progress of the instrument—whether in its mechanical construction or its optical appliances; whether the improvements shall bear upon the use of high powers or low powers; whether it shall be improvement that shall apply to its commercial employment, its easier professional application, or its most exalted scientific use; so long as this shall be the undoubted aim of the Royal Microscopical Society, its existence may well be the pride of Englishmen, and will commend itself more and more to men of all countries.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various

He apologized so amply that I came gradually to feel as if I were not entirely in the wrong.
— from From Dublin to Chicago: Some Notes on a Tour in America by George A. Birmingham

Mr. Hamlin proved a source of strength, and the imparted confidence and courage to the great movement against the Democratic party.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

But for that I to wryte first bigan Of his love, I have seyd as that I can.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer

The divine spirit may be such an archetypal, creative understanding ( intellectus archetypus ), which generates objects by its thought; the human spirit is not such, and therefore is confined, with its knowledge, within the circle of possible perception.—The conception of "intellectual intuition" leads to a distinction in regard to things in themselves: in its negative meaning noumenon denotes a thing in so far as it is not the object of our sensuous intuition, in its positive meaning a thing which is the object of a non-sensuous intuition.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

And so he says, "I sought no shelter, therefore, but the sky; and toiling into Chatham—which, in that night's aspect, is a mere dream of chalk, and draw-bridges, and mastless ships in a muddy river, roofed like Noah's arks,—crept, at last, upon a sort of grass-grown battery overhanging a lane, where a sentry was walking to and fro.
— from A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Together with Personal Reminiscences of the 'Inimitable Boz' Therein Collected by William R. (William Richard) Hughes

2 Each side of the street leading to the miya was illuminated with a line of paper lanterns bearing holy symbols; and the immense court of the temple had been transformed into a town of booths, and shops, and temporary theatres.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn

Ware says that 3,500 soldiers were sacrificed in this service, and that it cost the Queen more than 147,000
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell