But when I came to consider the length of time which this journey would occupy, and the premature heat of the season, which even at Washington had been often very trying; and weighed moreover, in my own mind, the pain of living in the constant contemplation of slavery, against the more than doubtful chances of my ever seeing it, in the time I had to spare, stripped of the disguises in which it would certainly be dressed, and so adding any item to the host of facts already heaped together on the subject; I began to listen to old whisperings which had often been present to me at home in England, when I little thought of ever being here; and to dream again of cities growing up, like palaces in fairy tales, among the wilds and forests of the west.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid l. 211 l. 220 l. 221 Production Note l. 224 Cornell University Library produced this volume to replace the irreparably deteriorated original.
— from The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid by John Casey

Ha de saber usted también que su señora tía doña Perfecta es camarera mayor de la Santísima Virgen del Socorro, y que ese vestido que 63 a usted le parece tan grotesco... pues... digo que ese vestido
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

that whether of high estate or humble, we all of us like praise—sometimes.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

[31] hace una licitación privada entre constructores, distribuyendo
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Gamay rag irug ang kauswágan sa lungsud, The town has undergone little progress.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Use. See Fair use, Limitation, Private use.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

Two men came into the hotel after dinner—acquaintances both—and she became engrossed by them, and sent up little peals of laughter, and seemed to like their admiration, which was presumptuously barefaced.
— from Conrad in Quest of His Youth: An Extravagance of Temperament by Leonard Merrick

In my morbid self-duplication, I had been busy all this time fixing in my memory and writing down in a book all that I had said to her or she to me, weighing and probing the scope and effect of the words that had been uttered, laying plans for future methods of advance, noting actual victories and defeats, pondering over this inanity, bending over all this abnormality, like a strategist who, bending over the map, marks with his nail the movements of troops, the carrying or surrender of a fortified position.
— from Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Brandes

Others, however, not until legal proceedings were taken, and they were ordered by the magistrate to do it—and even then some would not obey the magistrate’s order, and the work had to be done by the sanitary authority, and the cost thereof levied from the owner.
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson

Before us, lying partly in the valley, and straggling half-way up the ascent, was a pretty village.
— from The Island Home by Richard Archer

The barons and the serfs of the surrounding country swooped like vultures upon Laon, pillaged the empty houses and fought with one another for the spoil.
— from Medieval Europe by H. W. Carless (Henry William Carless) Davis