It is a simple enough question, and yet it will puzzle a good many people.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Blameless as I was, and knew that I was, in reference to any wrong she could possibly suspect me of, I shrunk before her strange eyes, quite unable to endure their hungry lustre.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Superioris generis huius modi sunt exempla: omniane officia perfecta sint, num quod officium aliud alio maius sit, et quae sunt generis eiusdem.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Note 4 ( return ) [ Statura est quae resignet proceritate regnantem, (Ennodius, p. 1614.)
— 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

Mas ¿si es quizás for our lives!
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

desde la niñez bajo la dirección de su excelente y discreto tío, con lo cual dicho se está que el tierno
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Id, quod occasionem dedit, ut duae istae diversae voluntatis propensiones pro duobus diversis appetitibus sumerentur, est, quod saepissime unus alteri opponatur, quia propositum, quod mens superaedificat propriis suis perceptionibus, non semper consentit cum cogitationibus, quae menti a corporis dispositione suggeruntur, per quam saepe obligatur ad aliquid volendum, dum ratio ejus earn aliud optare facit.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Princess Mary seemed even quieter and more diffident than usual.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

( a. ) Time: vehemēns sum exoriēns, quom occidō vehementior , Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

No, por Dios; mas si cerrado No, by God, but if you seguís en que aquí han venido insist on phantoms again fantasmas, lo sucedido come, let me tell you how I explain oíd cómo me he explicado.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

she exclaimed quickly.
— from Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux

See Extracts, Quotations.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

He found that the orange satellite exerted quite a strong pull on his internal sap system, which was not unpleasant.
— from The Imitation of Earth by James Stamers

para ello y demas del peligro que podria suceder en los que los tienen en leerlos como se entiende que de leerse an dañado algunos letrados y otras personas es tanbien de mucho peligro que algunos de los que los tienen dexan libremente leerlos a los de su casa
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

The bells were just stopping, and Mrs. Morrison, who played the organ, was forced to hurry in without having told Emma her whole opinion of those who gave and those who attended Sunday parties, but the prelude she played that day expressed the tumult of her mind very well, and struck Tussie Shuttleworth, who had sensitive ears, quite cold.
— from The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth Von Arnim

And sometimes she wondered at herself,—how it was that all the attention she received scarcely ever quickened her pulse.
— from From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe

return to footnote mark Contents Contents p.3 No. 67 Thursday, May 17, 1711 Budgell 1 Saltare elegantius quam necesse est probæ.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

But his shifty eyes quailed before my glance, so that I felt sure that there was no real courage behind his cruelty.
— from Stromboli and the Guns by Francis Henry Gribble