The majority of the women of any class are not likely to differ in political opinion from the majority of the men of the same class, unless [Pg 97] the question be one in which the interests of women, as such, are in some way involved; and if they are so, women require the suffrage, as their guarantee of just and equal consideration.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

I have laid myself open (I know it) in this treatise, turned mine inside outward: I shall be censured, I doubt not; for, to say truth with Erasmus, nihil morosius hominum judiciis , there is nought so peevish as men's judgments; yet this is some comfort, ut palata, sic judicia , our censures are as various as our palates.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Her eyes were dilated and wild, and she constantly uttered piercing shrieks, and repeated the words, 'My husband, my father, and my brother!'
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

De más decir que Echeverría no ha tenido nada que ver con princesas propias o ajenas; no ha contribuido a hacer odioso el alejandrino, no ha tenido jamás ningún rastacuerismo lírico, ni se cree un pistonudo genio.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

con su comercio una pequeña fortuna, pero no se hallaba a gusto
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Usen , v. to use, to be accustomed, PP, S3, C2; usede , pt. s. , SD, PP; usiden , pl. , dealt with, W; yvsed , pp. , S2; uset , customary, PP; used , C3; vsyt , S3; oysit , B; wsyt , S3.—AF. user .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

PROFESSION DANS LAQUELLE LES FAUTES SONT CACHÉES Un peintre, dont le talent était fort médiocre, embrassa la profession de médecin.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

SEE Columbia University Press.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals: Artwork 1960-1964 Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The street was crowded with staring, curious, uninvited people on either side of the church, and when the carriage containing the bride drove up, the surge forward to see her was as fierce as though she had been a defaulting bank-president being taken to prison.
— from The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

avoit entièrement résolu, après avoir achevé ces mariages, et renvoyé les estrangers, de les déchasser arrière de soy, comme une peste de son royaume."
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

Sic hactenus stilum cohibui, utcunque pungeres me, cohibiturum etiam scripsi in literis ad amicos, quæ tibi quoque lectæ sunt, donec palam prodires.
— from Luther, vol. 2 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Down went Betty in a clean dive, and when she came up, panting and shaking the water from her eyes, she called: "I lifted out two, but I think we had better let the boys do it, Mollie.
— from The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake; Or, The Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat Gem by Laura Lee Hope

He then set forth the nebular hypothesis that at some long past time our sun and all his planets existed but as a volume of gas, which in contracting and cooling formed a hot volume of rotating liquid, and that as this further contracted and cooled, the planets, and moons, and planetary rings fell off from it and gradually solidified, the sun being left as the solitary comparatively uncooled portion of the original nebula.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various

And in leaving the fish-house let me say that this educational value, so to speak, of the Zoological Gardens undoubtedly forms one of their strongest claims upon public support.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various