Un niño puede decirle que su animal no es una vaca, sino una cabra; y, por cierto, muy flaca.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

No unknown; no persecuted descendant of a man of high degree; but the weak, imbecile son of a poor, petty tradesman.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Note 140 ( return ) [ Et nulla tormentorum vis inveneri, adhuc potuit, quae obdurato illius tractus latroni invito elicere potuit, ut nomen proprium dicat Ammian.
— 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

Ug nahadagat pa, dì ikatil-ug, Terribly homely.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Bisag giunsa (unsáun) nákù pagbira dílì maibut, No matter how I pulled (pull) it, it didn’t (won’t) come out.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

As far as the preparer knows, there is (unfortunately) no public domain English translation of Books X-XVI.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Soon Thenichka's eye healed, but the impression produced upon Nikolai Petrovitch did not pass away so quickly.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Le service informatique pense déjà à une numérisation partielle du fonds documentaire, mais bon, le problème ici c'est que les idées vont nettement plus vite que les moyens.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Puck us no Pucks, De Sauty, nor constrict our planet's rotundity with any forty-minute girdle; for in these days of inflating crinoline and ever-increasing circumference of hooped skirts, it becomes us to leave our Mother Earth at least in the fashion, nor strive to reduce her to such unmodish dimensions that one may circumnavigate her in as little time, comparatively, as he may make the circuit of Miss Flora MacFlimsey.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

This thought, that nature or matter is just as much the actual unity of an attracting and a repelling force, as the mind or heart is the unity of an unlimited and a limiting tendency, and that the repelling force in matter corresponds to the positive or unlimited activity of the mind, while the attracting force corresponds to the mind’s negative or limiting activity—this identical deduction of matter from the essence of the Ego, is very prominent in all that Schelling wrote upon natural philosophy during this period.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler

Alexander is animated with the idea; and his fleet, under Nearchus, proceeds down the Indus to the sea.
— from The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by William Lisle Bowles

United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) established 31 March 1995; to monitor border activity in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; members were Argentina, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Ghana, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Nepal, NZ, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, US; mandate ended 25 March 1999 _________________________________________________________________
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

If the glass of the bottle has undergone no permanent deformation, the level will rise exactly to
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various

Accordingly, the emigrant from foreign lands was placed under no perpetual disqualifications.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

'All of them paint, using no particular design; the men mostly with dark colors, the women, red and yellow.'
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

A person receiving a letter from the post-office by mistake, or finding one in the street or elsewhere, can under no pretence designedly break the seal without subjecting himself to a severe penalty.
— from Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department by James Holbrook

After a moment he replied, "For many years no land has so much interested me as America, and upon no people do I look with so much interest.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various