"That she never can, my dear," said Mrs. Pullet, with unusual vigor, "for she hasn't got the linen to follow suit wi' mine, I can tell you.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The room was very still, when the clear voice failed suddenly at the last line of Beth's favorite hymn.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

La force, proprement dite, c'est-ce qui régit les actes, sans régler les volontés —Force, strictly speaking, is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In the highest division and range of niches, place at the extreme ends vessels fashioned so as to give the note of the diatonic hyperbolaeon; next, the diatonic diezeugmenon, a fourth below; third, the diatonic synhemmenon; fourth, the diatonic meson, a fourth below; fifth, the diatonic hypaton, a fourth below; sixth, the [145] proslambanomenos, a fourth below; in the middle, the note mese, for this is both the octave to proslambanomenos, and the concord of the fifth to the diatonic hypaton.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Besides, seeing that when he had tilled the ground, some years the corn perished in it for want of rain in due season, in others rotted or was drowned by its excess, sometimes spoiled by hail, eat by worms in the ear, or beaten down by storms, and so his stock was destroyed on the ground; we were told that ever since the days of yore he has found out a way to conjure the rain down from heaven only with cutting certain grass, common enough in the field, yet known to very few, some of which was then shown us.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Then we flew into each other’s arms, and indulged in the most endearing caresses for a very few seconds.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

What, and my old Venetian friend, Salerio!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“That’s all very fine,” said Billy.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Partnern bilateral agreement Verträge von Rom Treaty of Rome vertraglich contractual vertraglich festlegen stipulate vertraglich gebunden bound by contract vertraglich verpflichtet bound by contract vertraglich verpflichtet sein to be bound by a contract vertragliche Vereinbarung; Klausel stipulation vertragsähnliche Beziehung quasi-contractual relationship vertragsähnliches Verhältnis
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

At No. 6, hôtel de Brancas (1540), inhabited in its early years by the duchesse de Montpensier, rebuilt under the Regency, we see a very fine staircase and frescoed boudoir.
— from Historic Paris by Jetta Sophia Wolff

242 From the very first Samuel Plimsoll proved herself a very fast ship.
— from The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock

I have found but few, very few, still alive and sufficiently vigorous to tell the tales of their experience with perspicuity; and a hundred times, in the course of my pilgrimage to the grounds where Discord raised its trumpet notes And carnage beat its horrid drum, have my inquiries for living patriots of that war been answered with "Five years ago Captain A. was living," or "three years ago Major B. died;" or "last autumn Mother C. was buried;" all of whom were full of the unwritten history of the Revolution.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

When we come to think of the nature of Boswell's value for so many people, we shall find that it depends not altogether upon the completeness of his method or his capacity for giving expression to it, but also upon an interest which exists apart from any structural or artistic quality.
— from Boswell the Biographer by George Mallory

But I have not the heart to break the rest of this old man,—a very faithful servant,—who closes not his eyes, except when to keep them open would no longer be of service to Don Gabriel."
— from Calavar; or, The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

I think, Sophie, I think I smell a very large mouse, my dear, and I shan’t be surprised if we’ve hit upon the place of reception for your messages the very first shot.”
— from Cleek of Scotland Yard: Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew

For a dozen years my home was in Illinois, near Batavia, where I gathered most of the books in my present library, though I brought many choice volumes from Stockholm.
— from The Smoky God; Or, A Voyage to the Inner World by Willis George Emerson

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— from Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome by Rachel Harriette Busk