The unteachable (nevertheless learnable ) profusion of its middle-tones has conferred upon it an intrinsic power of expression, such as no other human tongue ever possessed.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hunc, cum responsum petitur, navigio aurato gestant Sacerdotes, multis argenteis pateris ab utroque navigii latere pendentibus.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

508 Then Ráma cried in mournful tone, His spirit by his woe o'erthrown; “The wood is searched from side to side, No distant spot remains untried, No lilied pool, no streamlet where The lotus buds are fresh and fair.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Next in order come other nations as far as the middle of Greece, with lower elevations of the voice; and from this middle point they go on in regular order up to the extreme north, where, under high altitudes, the vocal utterance of the inhabitants is, under natural laws, produced in heavier tones.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

[FR] [FR] Christian Boitet (Grenoble) #Directeur du GETA (Groupe d'étude pour la traduction automatique), qui participe à l'UNLP (Universal Networking Language Programme) Au sein du Laboratoire CLIPS (Communication langagière et interaction personne-système) de l'IMAG (Institut d'informatique et mathématiques appliquées de Grenoble), le GETA (Groupe d'étude pour la traduction automatique), dirigé par Christian Boitet, est une équipe pluridisciplinaire formée d'informaticiens et de linguistes.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

= En quoi consiste l'UNLP (Universal Networking Language Programme), auquel le GETA participe?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Pour notre bibliothèque numérique, j'introduis une nouvelle langue par mois maintenant, et je vais poursuivre cette politique aussi longtemps que possible.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Directeur du Groupe d'étude pour la traduction automatique (GETA), qui participe au Universal Networking Language Programme (UNLP) Bernard Boudic (Rennes) /
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

To all which I do most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, without the least equivocation, mental [Pg 9] reservation, or self-evasion of mind in me whatever; BINDING MYSELF UNDER NO LESS PENALTY THAN TO HAVE MY THROAT CUT ACROSS, MY TONGUE TORN OUT BY THE ROOTS, AND MY BODY BURIED IN THE ROUGH SANDS OF THE SEA AT LOW WATER MARK, WHERE THE TIDE EBBS AND FLOWS IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS : so help me God, and keep me steadfast in the true performance of the same."
— from The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan

It seems that the Utopia no longer pats faith in the radiance, which is its irresistible and incorruptible strength.
— from Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean by Victor Hugo

Let us now leave primitive man and turn to the unconscious in our psyche.
— from Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud

Experience gives us no less proof of the faculty of feeling in animals than of feeling in men....
— from Man a Machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Why should it be otherwise as to the specific color, the notion of which is undoubtedly no less primordial?”
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

Leaves large, thick; upper surface dark green, glossy, smooth; lower surface light bronze, pubescent; leaf usually not lobed; petiolar sinus wide, often urn-shaped; teeth shallow.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

He who falls into the hands of the Kabyles is born under no lucky planet—his head is instantly cut off and borne away as a trophy.
— from The French in Algiers The Soldier of the Foreign Legion; and The Prisoners of Abd-el-Kader by Clemens Lamping

It is noticeable that the University no longer prints the book of Common Prayer as a whole, but only the Psalter as found in that book, separately.
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan