I may say, too, that I believe I am the only person in the village, excepting Gabriel Oak, who does know it.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Note 51 ( return ) [ Omnes de Burgundia, et Alvernia, et Vasconia, et Gothi, (of Languedoc,) provinciales appellabantur, caeteri vero Francigenae et hoc in exercitu; inter hostes autem Franci dicebantur.
— 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

Che vi fa co’ suoi raggi alte e superbe; O soave contrada, o puro fiume, Che bagni ’l suo bel viso e gli occhi chiari, E prendi qualità dal vivo lume; Quanto v’invidio gli atti onesti e cari!
— from Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

When the inevitable growth of multi-media, multi-lingual videoconferencing comes about, it will be necessary to 'visually edit' gestures on the fly.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Ehrenleuten gentleman's agreement veraltern; unmodern werden become obsolete veraltert obsolete veraltert; unmodisch obsolete veralterte Ausstattung obsolete equipment Veralterung obsolescence Veralterung der Lagerbestände; Veralten obsolescence of stock Veralterung eines Gebrauchsgegenstandes obsolescence Veralterung von Produkten product obsolescence veraltet out of date veraltet out-of-date veraltet; datiert out of date veraltet; nicht mehr genutzt out of use veraltetes Material obsolete material veränderlicher Kurswert fluctuating market value Veränderung change Veränderung der Nachfrage movement in demand Veränderung der Preise movement of prices Veränderung des Angebots movement in supply Veränderungen des internationalen Handels changes in international commerce veranlagen assess Veranlagung assessment Veranlagungsjahr year of assessment Veranstaltung mit Kostproben sampling demonstration verantwortlich answerable verantwortlich liable verantwortlich responsible
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Of course the wagon load of rich ore was all that the victim ever got out of his purchase.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

They both looked to the right and to the left into most of the shops they passed, had a wary eye for all gregarious assemblages of people, and turned out of their road to avoid any very excited group of talkers.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The key to a dynamic decade is vigorous economic growth, our first great goal.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Well, if I could but any way see him thoroughly vexed, every groan of his would be music to me; yet, faith, I believe it impossible.
— from Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith

Louis de Marsac, with two other victims, Etienne Gravot of Gyen, and Marsac, his cousin, who had followed him into his dungeon, "gave thanks to God for the inestimable honour which he conferred upon them of suffering for his name."
— from Letters of John Calvin, Volume II Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes by Jean Calvin

Ninety men out of every hundred offer a remark upon the weather; but unless there has been something very extraordinary going on in the meteorological line, it is better to avoid this subject if possible.
— from Manners for Men by Mrs. Humphry

From the little green, vine- embowered gate of the chateau it found its way to Paris, and arrived that same evening, with its Savigny postmark and impregnated with the odor of the country, at the fifth-floor apartment on the Rue de Braque.
— from Fromont and Risler — Volume 1 by Alphonse Daudet

The reader, measuring him by other men, would make a very erroneous guess on the most prominent feature of his face, if he fixed on the nasal protuberance—no such thing—his nose was flat and small, but his large projecting upper teeth, like “rocks of pearl jutting over the sea,” were ever bared for action, white as those of his only companion, the mastiff, and nobly independent of a sheathing lip.
— from The Comical Adventures of Twm Shon Catty (Thomas Jones, Esq.), Commonly known as the Welsh Robin Hood by T. J. Llewelyn (Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn) Prichard

From all that is at present known of this remarkable opening, there is enough to excite the greatest interest; since, from the extent of the opening, the rapidity of the stream, and the great rise and fall of the tides, there must be a very extensive gulf or opening, totally different from everything that has been before seen.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King