Tout doit être subordonné à ce but. L’Homme sur le premier plan, le reste au fond.’
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

( Memoires de Riouffe in Memoires sur les Prisons, Paris, 1823, p. 48-55. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

2. Most nouns of two syllables, like prīnceps ( prīncip- ), mīles ( mīlit- ), iūdex ( iūdic- ), have i in the base, but e in the nominative.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

2. That the air, the soil, and the climate of Rome have suffered a great and visible alteration, (Réflexions sur la Poësie et sur la Peinture, part ii. sect.
— 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

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues; / Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Loking , sb. looking, PP; lokyng , custody, S; appearance, W; lokinge , decision, S2; lokynge , PP; protection, S2; lokunge , S. 138 Lokken , v. to lock, SkD; lok , Cath.; ylokked , pp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Lechour , sb. a dissolute person, PP; letchour , W; lechur , S; lechours , pl. , PP; lechouris , W; letchours , W.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

lide et sensé,” says Rousseau ( Jugement sur la Paix Perpétuelle ), “et il est très important qu’il existe.”
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Pero ésta es la poesía culta, la poesía de la ciudad; hay otra que hace oír sus ecos por los campos solitarios: la poesía popular, candorosa y desaliñada del gaucho.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

It was such a feeling as when the death of some loved person puts an end to the long, tormenting anxiety of the foregoing illness.
— from Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Brandes

In only a few instances have strikes affected agriculture directly, partly because the relations of employer and employed are so largely personal; partly because the supply of agricultural laborers for the season is usually large; but chiefly because wage-earners upon farms in this country expect eventually to become themselves proprietors, and so no separ
— from Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life by Geo. T. (George Thompson) Fairchild

In reading some of the most celebrated discourses of the Abbé Auzou, I was the most struck with one entitled—"Discours sur les Plaisirs Populaires, les Bals, et les Spectacles."
— from Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1) by Frances Milton Trollope

Synonyms: likely, presumable, probable, seeming.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

The squirrels sat with heads sticking out of their holes, or else stood up outside on their hind legs, with the sun on their light breasts, looking, as Mr. Roosevelt says, like 'picket pins.'
— from A-Birding on a Bronco by Florence Merriam Bailey

"Yes; and become a woman's slave, like poor Poppins; or else have my heart torn again with racking jealousy, as it was with you.
— from The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Anthony Trollope

See Levant Papers , Part III., p. 294.
— from The War in Syria, Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Napier