Racine ( Jean ), célèbre poète tragique français, rival de Corneille (1639-1699).
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

When we had done with criticism, we walked over to Richardson's, the authour of Clarissa and I wondered to find Richardson displeased that I "did not treat Cibber with more RESPECT."
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

4. Tôtô frûmentô raptô, domî nihil erat quô mortem prohibêre possent.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Tess sat up getting on with some little requisites, lest the few remaining days should not afford sufficient time.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

From this journal it was that almost every one in our Upper Canadian York who had the least taste for reading, derived the principal portion of his or her acquaintance with the outside world of letters, as well as the minuter details of prominent political events.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

She did not act, but a chair was set for her on the stage at the rehearsals, and the performances never began till she had appeared in the front row, dazzling and astounding everyone with her fine clothes.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

So shalt thou pass the goal, secure of mind, And leave unskilful swiftness far behind: Though thy fierce rival drove the matchless steed Which bore Adrastus, of celestial breed; Or the famed race, through all the regions known, That whirl'd the car of proud Laomedon.
— from The Iliad by Homer

—These should be cooked as soon as possible after being caught, as their flavor rapidly deteriorates after being exposed to the air.
— from Breakfast Dainties by Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson) Murrey

Since the fossil record does not permit us to say when in geological time the family originated, we must rely on anatomical evidence and the distributional evidence of present-day species to estimate when the family stock had diverged from some unknown group sufficiently to merit the status of a separate family.
— from Phylogeny of the Waxwings and Allied Birds by M. Dale (Martin Dale) Arvey

The moon was straight above the old bull when Gray Wolf scented the first real danger.
— from Kazan by James Oliver Curwood

Both the exaggerated hopes and the exaggerated fears aroused by the French Revolution disinclined their victims to listen to the middling sanity of Johnson.
— from Dr. Johnson and His Circle by John Cann Bailey

CHAPTER IV—A NEW ARRIVAL The few remaining days of June passed swiftly and it was nearing the time set for the annual games at the ranch, which were to be held on the Fourth of July.
— from Mason of Bar X Ranch by Henry Holcomb Bennett

I quote the first paragraph: “SS Brigadeführer, Major General of Police Von Gottberg reports that the operation ‘Cottbus’ had the following result during the period mentioned:
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various

You say that you are about to prepare an edition of Pope; you cannot do better for your own credit as a publisher, nor for the redemption of Pope from Mr. Bowles, and of the public taste from rapid degeneracy.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

None of the party knew very much about anatomy, but they felt rather dubious as to the truth of [Pg 194] the man's statements.
— from The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese by Ernest Young