In 1821-1822 he maintained Coralie, who became so violently enamored of Lucien de Rubempre.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

In these latter cir cumstances lies the imitative essence of the second image: for one leaf does not imitate another nor is each twin the other's copy.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Glen's has a large village; and while William Henry, and even a fortress of later date, are only to be traced as ruins, there is another village on the shores of the Horican.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

He therefore hastened to the palace to congratulate the queen on the battle of Lens, determined beforehand to act with or against the court, as his congratulations were well or ill received.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

“If ever I go out last day again.”
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

95 Bab ini ʿazimat perampuan tiada dapat bermukah dengan orang lain deripada [ 670 ] kita: di-surat pada kertas maka bri di-pakei-nya: inilah rajah-nya: alu 15 bismillah wa Allah s(a)l(a)ma kamal ....
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

La violence est juste où la douceur est vaine —Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. Corneille.
— 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 CBI Theater, there was developed a leaflet belly-tank of local design for use on pursuit planes.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

I never tire of watching their broad and easy flight, in spirals, or as they oscillate with slow unflapping wings, or look down with curved beak, or dipping to the water after food.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

He was in hiding at Kilmarnock to be out of the way of legal diligence, and it was in such circumstances that he saw his poems through the press.
— from Robert Burns by Gabriel Setoun

Memory, through association, enables us to recall, more or less directly and with more or less difficulty, things which appear to be momentarily absent from consciousness.
— from Ants and Some Other Insects: An Inquiry Into the Psychic Powers of These Animals by Auguste Forel

The evening sky of life does not reflect those brilliant flashes of light that shot across its morning and noon, yet I think God it is neither gloomy nor disconsolately lowering—a sober twilight—that is all ." ILLUSTRATIONS.
— from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott

The cells of the cocoons require a certain length and a certain breadth, which the mother finds by going higher up or lower down in the spiral, according to the shape of the shell.
— from Bramble-Bees and Others by Jean-Henri Fabre

It will be found in II. of the Appendix , with two other letters detailing the principal incidents of that direful event in terms which, though in a great measure anticipated by our narrative, show the impression made by them at the time, and probably conveyed the fullest information of the catastrophe to the Duchess of Urbino and to the Emperor.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun

Like all in the springtime of life, death seemed afar off, something that would not approach him for many years.
— from The Blue and the Gray; Or, The Civil War as Seen by a Boy A Story of Patriotism and Adventure in Our War for the Union by Annie Randall White

Mr. Elbert H. Gary, Chairman, Board of Directors, U. S. Steel Corporation, New York, N. Y. Dear Sir : Of course you are aware that upon the request of a number of men in the employ of the United States Steel Corporation, and realizing the need of it, the convention of the American Federation of Labor decided to respond and give such assistance as is possible in order to bring about more thorough organization of the workers in the iron and steel industry, particularly those employed by your Corporation.
— from The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster

Formality and the mathematic, the regular and the uniform are aspects of the positive state—but the Positive is the Universal—so all attempted positiveness that seems to satisfy in the aspects of formality and regularity, sooner or later disqualifies in the aspect of wideness or universalness.
— from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort