When the activities of mind set out from customary beliefs and strive to effect transformations of them which will in turn win general conviction, there is no opposition between the individual and the social.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The doctor then lowered down Dale’s trousers, and raising his shirt, contemplated with great pleasure the pretty belly of the lovely boy, and then turning him round, under pretence of seeing if the weals of the last flogging were still visible, he gazed on his white firm backside and swelling thighs, examining the marks still left from the previous punishment.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Once or twice the thought crossed his mind that he might be separated from this unknown, whom he loved already; and then his mind was made up—when the jailer moved his bed and stooped to examine the opening, he would kill him with his water jug.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Before dismissing our ghostly narrative, it may effect something in the way of mitigating the anxious fears of some of our Christian brothers and sisters to explain the nature of "the sin against the Holy Ghost," and assign the reason for its being unpardonable.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

His lieutenants had worked so hard from five o’clock until eleven, that they actually had collected a hundred thousand roubles for him, but at such terrific expense, that the rate of interest was only mentioned among them in whispers and with bated breath.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

From this it was but a step to extend the same form of action to all cases of loss by a bailee, and so avoid the defendant's right to wage his law.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

What was far more serious, he had seen the number of minds, engaged in pursuing force--the truest measure of its attraction--increase from a few scores or hundreds, in 1838, to many thousands in 1905, trained to sharpness never before reached, and armed with instruments amounting to new senses of indefinite power and accuracy, while they chased force into hiding-places where Nature herself had never known it to be, making analyses that contradicted being, and syntheses that endangered the elements.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Come with the thunders of thy bow, And smite to earth the Rákshas foe.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Let us, then, with one accord, swear on God’s holy word, that none of us will even think of turning his face from this warfare, nor desert from the battle and slaughter that ensues, till his soul is separated from his body.’
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Religious ceremonies are moulded by, and seek to express, the worshipper's conception of his God, and his own relation to Him; his aspirations and his need.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren

The various states of the Entombment ( 281 ), first with the line quite open, then with some added shading partially aided by a surface tint, exemplify the manner of his progress.
— from Rembrandt, With a Complete List of His Etchings by Arthur Mayger Hind

The sister, an aged woman, obeyed with tottering steps, and, reaching the massive portal, undid the guichet, or lattice, and asked with a quavering voice: “Who are you that knock?” while the nuns within held their breath and strained their ears to catch the answer.
— from The Brethren by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

In imagination he saw the heath bloom and grow purple with rich juicy berries, and saw the elder trees and the lime trees at Vosborg in blossom.
— from What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Sometimes the hard, stolid face of the Postmaster-General appeared at his side; again Senator Wigfall galloped along, with his pants stuck in his boots and seeming to enjoy the saddle much more than the curule chair; and often "Little Jeff"—the Benjamin of Mr. Davis' household—trotted at his side.
— from Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon

Sharks and whales feed on dead bodies and sometimes they eat them alive.
— from School-Room Humour by T. J. (Thomas James) Macnamara

Enough has been already said to explain the purpose of composing the Abbot.
— from The Abbot by Walter Scott