When it was translated into the languages of Catholic countries, like France and Portugal, only one or two incidents were omitted, and the story was almost as popular there as with English readers.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

But because the Worldlys and the Eminents—and the Snobsnifts who copy them—stay in their cabins, sit in segregated chairs and speak to no one except the handful of their personal friends or acquaintances who happen to be on board, it does not follow that the Smiths, Joneses and Robinsons are not enlarging their acquaintance with every revolution of the screws.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

or de ); take (a walk etc.); run (one's head against the wall con la cabeza en la pared ); land; strike; me
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

"Keep that," he would say, "for thyself and those like thee, and whoever else require it!
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But, of course, we ran at once to the crocodile's tank, and with equal reverence and incredulity listened to the unhappy captive.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He never used the phrases the former and the latter, having observed, that they often occasioned obscurity; he therefore contrived to construct his sentences so as not to have occasion for them, and would even rather repeat the same words, in order to avoid them.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

This was a fearful experience, with filth and bad food and cruelty and overwork; but Jurgis stood it and came out in fine trim, and with eighty rubles sewed up in his coat.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

She vividly pictured herself as Prince Andrew’s wife, and the scenes of happiness with him she had so often repeated in her imagination, and at the same time, aglow with excitement, recalled every detail of yesterday’s interview with Anatole.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In August he was at Smolénsk and thought only of how to advance farther, though as we now see that advance was evidently ruinous to him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

As little can it be understood of the proper Atellane fable, for besides that Ovid is here considering the Greek drama only, the Atellane was ever regarded as a species, not of tragedy, but comedy: The authority of Donatus is very express; “ Comædiarum formæ sunt tres: Palliatæ, Togatæ, Atellanæ , salibus et jocis compositæ, quæ in se non habent nisi vetustam elegantiam.”
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

"Give this to him, and to no one else," he says, sharply, turning away with evident reluctance.
— from Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda M. Douglas

This was a good domestic touch, and was enthusiastically received.
— from The Duchess of Rosemary Lane: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

He had no idea that anybody would ever read it.
— from The Midnight Guest: A Detective Story by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

The proceedings have gone on all along on the assumption which every reasonable man must have formed, namely, that the body of the deceased had been committed to the waves.
— from The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward

[289] English, and the address was enthusiastically received, and had an excellent effect, as I afterward learned, upon law and order in Egypt.
— from Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft Recollections of Oscar S. Straus ... by Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) Straus

After his victory over Brutus, Antony overran Greece and Asia Minor for the purpose of levying tribute, and was everywhere received as a conqueror.
— from Cleopatra: A Study by Henry Houssaye