"The same." "Donc" (clapping his hands), "donc, vous devez connaître mon noble élève, mon Paul?"
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

"You are surely Annette, the schoolmaster's daughter," cried he; "will you give me a kiss?"
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

p. 70 , S. de Cressy has: "Where I might not for the mean profer look up"; Collins: "for the meanwhile."
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

If he had not been a small degree civilized, he very probably would not have troubled himself with boots at all; but then, if he had not been still a savage, he never would have dreamt of getting under the bed to put them on.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

A man of her own size of understanding would, probably, not agree so well with her; for he might wish to encroach on her prerogative, and manage some domestic concerns himself.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

MS. repeats (by mistake, no doubt) "to seek," etc. S. de Cressy: "helpeth us as an entry."
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

[365] D'Estaing, having repaired his ships, sailed with his whole force for Martinique on the 4th of November; on the same day Commodore Hotham left New York for Barbadoes, with five sixty-four and fifty-gun ships and a convoy of five thousand troops, destined for the conquest of Sta.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

When a man of fortune spends his revenue chiefly in hospitality, he shares the greater part of it with his friends and companions; but when he employs it in purchasing such durable commodities, he often spends the whole upon his own person, and gives nothing to any body without an equivalent.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

To the sad doubts concerning his own salvation which Brother Martin laid before him, Staupitz replied by exhorting him as follows in the spirit of the Catholic Church: “Why torment yourself with such thoughts and broodings?
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

‘I can’t say I am surprised; indeed, I may say it is only what I expected,’ continued the senior deacon, ‘considering how frivolous she was, and how little her family availed themselves of the means of grace.’
— from Crying for the Light; Or, Fifty Years Ago. Vol. 1 [of 3] by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

[18] Several dissenting clergymen had opposed the publication of The Surey Demoniack , and had sought to have it suppressed.
— from A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein

“Oh, my God!” gasped the Countess as she devoutly crossed herself.
— from The city of the discreet by Pío Baroja

Saint David closed his hands on many, and there was no soundness in them, and they became as though they were nothing.
— from My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People by Caradoc Evans

"'Sit down close here,' he said.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

A form more fresh than are the Eden bowers, And lasting as her flowers; Richer than Time and, as Times’s virtue, rare; Sober as saddest care; A fixèd thought, an eye untaught to glance; Who, blest with such high chance, Would, at suggestion of a steep desire, Cast himself from the spire Of all his happiness?
— from Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems by Ben Jonson

SEE SPRINGER, HARVEY H. SQUARE D CO. How to operate a crane.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1971 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Mourn, mourn, ye virgins; rend your scatter'd garments: Some dread calamity hangs o'er our heads.
— from The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy