[90] Without this animal wealth it would have gone hard with Bering's expedition as it did later with the unfortunate La Pérouse, whose monument has found a place in Petropavlovsk by the side of Bering's.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

To them who have the jaundice, all things seem yellow and paler than to us:— Lurida prterea fiunt, qucunque tuentur Arquati.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

For a moment he stood letting this unpleasant look play upon me, as it were, and then he spoke.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

He also instructed the soldiers to use long pikes, and to thrust them forward to receive the sword-cuts of the enemy.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

* Note: Pliny says Puteoli, which seems to have been the usual landing place from the East.
— 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

In regard to one man's knowledge at a given time, universals, like particulars, may be divided into those known by acquaintance, those known only by description, and those not known either by acquaintance or by description.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

And so much easier is it to believe what we have seen and known, than what we hear of only, that we remember him but with admiration and respect; these descriptions of him, when morally insane, seeming to us like portraits, painted in sickness, of a man we have only known in health.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

If the human mind, ordained by an omniscient Creator, had been intended to be what it has become, exacting, inquiring, agitated, tormented—so different from mere animal thought and resignation—would the world which was created to receive the beings which we now are have been this unpleasant little park for small game, this salad patch, this wooded, rocky and spherical kitchen garden where your improvident Providence had destined us to live naked, in caves or under trees, nourished on the flesh of slaughtered animals, our brethren, or on raw vegetables nourished by the sun and the rain?
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

47 It may at first sight appear fcommonplace; but the unusually low position of the violas, violoncelli, and bassoons gives it a striking expression of power and of breathless urgency.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

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— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

We did not like to refuse an old grey-haired man’s simple request, so descended and drank another Skaal to all the usual loyal, patriotic, and festive toasts, and then we drove off murmuring somewhat indistinctly, ‘Shkaal Iva’
— from Three in Norway, by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck

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— from Copyright Renewals 1954 by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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— from From the Print Media to the Internet by Marie Lebert

Those unknown Latin phrases had for her a clear signification; she did not understand the words, but she could comprehend without difficulty that they were laments, menaces, complaints, and at times ardent and tender sighs of love.
— from A Wedding Trip by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de

Her complexion, though white, has a tinge of that golden brown, or olive, oft observed in the Andalusian race; while scimitar shaped eyebrows, with hair of silken texture, black as the shadows of night, and a dark down on the upper lip, plainly proclaim the Moorish admixture.
— from The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid