Algunas veces me traen un libro o un juguete, y otras veces me traen alguna cosa de comer, como una torta o una naranja o chocolates.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

We know then, or we may know, the point of departure from which we each start towards the usual level of understanding; but who knows the other extreme?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

PARTI lets the user log on using an alias.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

They continued to correspond, she in the unweighed language of unwavering affection, he in the chilly phraseology of the polished rhetorician.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

"It is from a due sense of the regard we owe and profess to your interests and to our own honor, that we think it indispensably necessary to lay open to your view a series of transactions too notoriously known to be suppressed, and too affecting to your interest, to the national character, and to the existence of the Company in Bengal, to escape unnoticed and uncensured,—transactions which seem to demonstrate that every spring of this government was smeared with corruption, that principles of rapacity and oppression universally prevailed, and that every spark of sentiment and public spirit was lost and extinguished in the unbounded lust of unmerited wealth.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

“In short,” added Tung, “the supreme principle Tau is the uncircumscribed limit of universes; the order of disorder; the contradiction which reconciles; the peace into which all storms subside; the mother and father of ac
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

The utter lack of understanding for the symbolism of these gifts on the part of the recipient, can scarcely have escaped the notice of Montezuma's messengers and must have sorely puzzled their unfortunate master.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

Nevertheless, something might be done to improve our relationship, something which would relieve me of that uneasy lack of unity I felt when at home, of the lassitude and ennui I was wont to feel creeping over me on Sundays and holidays….
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

We do not know what was the usual length of undergraduates' residence at that time; some resided only for a year, some proceeded to a degree.
— from The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham College, Oxford; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester by P. A. (Patrick Arkley) Wright Henderson

He was a queer fellow, Peter, a plantation humourist, well taught in all the then unpublished lore of “Uncle Remus.”
— from In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories by Andrew Lang

Watching her closely, even in the distance, Eustace caught a glimpse of her eyes for the moment, and fancied, with the vivid imagination of a poet, that he saw in their depths that undefinable look of unfulfilled motherhood which had led him to call her an "incomplete Madonna."
— from Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage by Fergus Hume

At the famous “Angel” of Islington manorial courts were held seemingly from a time immemorial: on a shop-front now facing it the curious surname Uglow may be seen to-day, and in view of the adjacent Agastone Road it is reasonable to assume that at Hogsdon, now spelt Hoxton, stood once an Hexe or Hag stone, perhaps also that the hill by the Angel was originally known as the ug low or Ug hill.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

Mary had not come in from her ride, and since Mrs. Timberlake used language only under the direct pressure of necessity, the sound of Letty's unembarrassed childish treble rippled placidly over the constrained silence of her elders.
— from The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow