The qualities and fortunes of Lucullus, Metellus, and Scipio have ever run more in my head than those of any of my own country; they are all dead; so is my father as absolutely dead as they, and is removed as far from me and life in eighteen years as they are in sixteen hundred: whose memory, nevertheless, friendship and society, I do not cease to embrace and utilise with a perfect and lively union. — from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
signed himself Eugène Rouher Minister
It was asserted, amongst other things, that the Keeper of the Seals of the coup d'état , the man who signed himself Eugène Rouher, "Minister of Justice," had said, "Let them set the men of the Right at liberty, and send the men of the Left to the dungeon. — from The History of a Crime
The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo
she had expected rather more
She had never been staying there before, without being struck by it, or without wishing that other Elliots could have her advantage in seeing how unknown, or unconsidered there, were the affairs which at Kellynch Hall were treated as of such general publicity and pervading interest; yet, with all this experience, she believed she must now submit to feel that another lesson, in the art of knowing our own nothingness beyond our own circle, was become necessary for her; for certainly, coming as she did, with a heart full of the subject which had been completely occupying both houses in Kellynch for many weeks, she had expected rather more curiosity and sympathy than she found in the separate but very similar remark of Mr and Mrs Musgrove: — from Persuasion by Jane Austen
Least of all, he proceeds, could the scheme have life in it “when Rome has substituted for the proud boast of semper eadem a policy of violence and change in faith; when she has refurbished and paraded anew every [pg 515] rusty tool she was fondly thought to have disused; when no one can become her convert, without renouncing his moral and mental freedom, and placing his civil loyalty and duty at the mercy of another; and when she has equally repudiated modern thought and ancient history.” — from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3)
1859-1880 by John Morley
system he evidently regarded me
When I replied that every city in the United States having twenty thousand population had a street car system, he evidently regarded me as a sort of American Baron Munchausen. — from My Story by Anson Mills
Thom s : Howe Esq r : & M r : John Sternes be a Comittee to view the Land mentioned in the Petition, & Represent the Lines, or Bounds of the severall adjacent Towns bounding on the s d . — from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various
suddenly his eyes roaming miserably
Peter Pan had about come to the end of his tether when suddenly his eyes, roaming miserably about in search of some new weapon of offense, fell upon something that caused him to utter a little shriek of delight. — from A Little Maid in Toyland by Adah Louise Sutton
Sinclair had evidently reached much the same conclusion, for he was saying something about a whim, no lasting reason—— "I've always cared for Sylvia, but it's hard to forgive her this." — from The Guarded Heights by Wadsworth Camp
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