The characteristic of French work had always been a certain nicety, a remarkable daintiness of hand, une nettete remarquable d'execution.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

Cependant un net regain de personnes qui viennent à notre librairie après nous avoir découvert sur le web.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The latter were under no regular discipline or subordination, but almost always equally jealous of one another, and of the king.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

“I have quite given it up,” Nekhludoff replied drily.
— from Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The explanation of the delusion is here enhanced by the fact that our author has offered us no rational disposal of it.
— from Delusion and Dream : an Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of Gradiva by Sigmund Freud

CHAPTER XVII LA MONTAGNE STE-GENEVIÈVE R UE DE LA MONTAGNE STE-GENEVIÈVE, leading to the hill-top from Boulevard St-Germain, went in twelfth-century days by the unæsthetic name Rue des Boucheries.
— from Historic Paris by Jetta Sophia Wolff

Then, indeed, you are unreasonable!' 'No,' replied De Grey; 'for I don't wish you to yield out of friendship to me, any more than to honour.
— from The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth

This is clearly to be seen in Spinoza, who opposes the full laws of reality to the narrow laws of human nature, saying: Quidquid nobis in natura ridiculum, absurdum aut malum videtur, id inde venit quod res tantum ex parte novimus, totiusque naturae ordinem et cohaerentium maxima ex parte ignoramus, et quod omnia ex usu nostrae rationis dirigi volumus,
— from The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic by Benedetto Croce

There was matter in hand of great import and urgency; no revelling, dame—no riot—but brave service, enjoined by his Lordship, and which it was his Lordship's most earnest desire should be committed in part to thy husband.
— from Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Pendleton Kennedy

The Old Story of Selfishness Bayadères and Princesses as Heroines Voluntary Unions not Respectable DOES THE BIBLE IGNORE ROMANTIC LOVE?
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

"Hæ quippe, licet nec uxoribus, nec Reginarum decore et privilegiis gaudebant, erant tamen veræ uxores," say the Bollandist Fathers, and add, that it is a vulgar error "Concubinæ appellationem solis iis tribuere, quæ corporis sui usum uni viro commodant, nullo interim legitimo nexu devinctæ."—Acta
— from Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould