She was envious of Léopoldine, the poet’s daughter, who was doing the same thing, and naturally had more opportunities than herself of adding to the collection.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Finding further progress blocked by heavy snows and learning through a prisoner that the Indians, who had retired before him, were collecting to oppose him in the mountains, he withdrew, as he says, “through absolute necessity,” having accomplished very little of the result expected.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

So they are not homogeneous with the visible things among which we place them.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

He says that a nerve has within itself veins and arteries, like a rope woven by Nature out of three different strands.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

General Quitman had advanced along his line very successfully on the 13th, so that at night his command occupied nearly the same position at Belen that Worth's troops did about San Cosme.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The short duration of beauty, of genius, of the Cæsar, is sui generis: such things are not hereditary.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The king replies, "Few have brought us any such dues from Norway for some time; and now, Hjalte, I will return you my warmest thanks for having given yourself so much trouble to bring us the landing dues, rather than pay them to our enemies.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

LESSON IV, § 39 Nouns dea , goddess (deity) Diā´na, Diana fera , a wild beast (fierce) Lātō´na, Latona sagit´ta , arrow Verbs est , he (she, it) is ; sunt , they are necat , he (she, it) kills, is killing, does kill Conjunction 1 et , and Pronouns quis , interrog.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

A question arose with Hayti during the past year by reason of the exceptional treatment of an American citizen, Mr. Van Bokkelen, a resident of Port-au-Prince, who, on suit by creditors residing in the United States, was sentenced to imprisonment, and, under the operation of a Haytian statute, was denied relief secured to a native Haytian.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

It is of a dark-brown colour, somewhat tenacious, and nearly hard, of a very penetrating odour, and is found in cavities resembling a molehill.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

Ere to-morrow you shall hear more; but in the mean time, in case of need, no arm will be found stronger to aid, no heart more ready to serve you, than that of good Franz Creussen.
— from The Castle of Ehrenstein Its Lords Spiritual and Temporal; Its Inhabitants Earthly and Unearthly by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Slowly he moved the blacks at their work, knowing that horses are sensitive to a new hand and voice, and that he must adapt himself to their ways, if he would bring them at last to his.
— from The Man from Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa by Ralph Connor

Thereupon some of the party, strong in principle and resolution, and seeing how grievous an annoyance their presence was to their enemy, Wilson, swore to abide near him and never to leave him.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

Among the fried-fish sellers there are not half a dozen Irish people, although fish is so especial a part of the diet of the poor Irish.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

The old man had put his daughter to a severe test, and now he was satisfied of her innocence.
— from The Basket of Flowers by Christoph von Schmid

He says: "I think it was in the Fall of '95 that Skim Brown, who played the tackle position, was captain of the scrubs team at New Haven.
— from Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball by William H. (William Hanford) Edwards