Unfortunately, however, Bering seems to have had no knowledge of Popoff's expedition to the Chukchees peninsula and his information concerning the adjacent American continent, or of Strahlenberg's outline maps, which were not published until after his departure from St. Petersburg.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

But he never went to these evening parties or balls except on days when it was freezing cold, because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive with boots otherwise than like mirrors.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Perhaps it was to appeal to the flood of newly arrived American craftsmen who might find in the rococo something reminiscent of the older tools they had known in Europe.
— from Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

where the MSS. give {uperthemenos}, (the Medicean with {upo} written above as a correction).
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

He put a constraint upon himself, and struggled to repel and repress the pleasure he found in contemplating Camilla; when alone he blamed himself for his weakness, called himself a bad friend, nay a bad Christian; then he argued the matter and compared himself with Anselmo; always coming to the conclusion that the folly and rashness of Anselmo had been worse than his faithlessness, and that if he could excuse his intentions as easily before God as with man, he had no reason to fear any punishment for his offence.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A Stem is that part of a word which contains its meaning, and is either a root alone or more commonly a root with an addition called a Formative Suffix .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

he well observed) they neither hear nor see such things as are commonly practised abroad?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

After looking from Job to Jingle, and from Jingle to Job in profound silence, he softly ejaculated the words, ‘Well, I am damn’d!’ which he repeated at least a score of times; after which exertion, he appeared wholly bereft of speech, and again cast his eyes, first upon the one and then upon the other, in mute perplexity and bewilderment.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

must we be hand and glove with Dick Selby the parson, or Jack Selby the calico printer, because W.S., who is neither, but a ripe wit and a critic, has the misfortune to claim a common parentage with them?
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

[440] Associates are constituted by paying $1,000 and $20, or more annually, or $5,000 in all.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

The fact that such an argument can be brought forward shows how far we are from the sound biological attitude towards sexual relationships.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

Join her; you know the signal.” Paten started suddenly from his lounging attitude, and cleft his way through the crowd, little heeding the comments his rude persistence called forth.
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever

Indeed, the true spiritual life is quite other, not harsh and constrained, but free and spontaneous—a wealth of feeling playing about a constantly shifting centre.
— from The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

When Arminians and Calvinists fell into hot disputes, and Leyden ministers and university professors held public meetings twice a week to settle knotty points of doctrine, John Robinson was always there, listening eagerly to both sides.
— from Ten Great Events in History by James Johonnot

All progress, from primitive savagedom to modern civilisation, will then appear as consisting in the progressive socialisation of the lower functions, the stoppage of lower forms of competition and of the education of the more brutal qualities, in order that a larger and larger proportion of individual activity may be engaged in the exercise of higher functions, the practice of competition upon higher planes, and the education of higher forms of fitness.
— from The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

A curious old punning Latin line, illustrating various meanings of the word malus , an apple, seems appropriate, as a commencement, to writing about apples; it is I think very little known, and too good to be forgotten.
— from Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur Herbert Savory

2 The same mechanic while the world waged war against Albion cultivated with all diligence the arts of Peace in the ways of wisdom.
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

He warned him that a system of terror would only provoke reprisals; and that a system of partial concessions would not only fail to satisfy the wishes of the people, but would have an arbitrary and capricious character which would increase the existing irritation.
— from The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-9 in Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany With Some Examination of the Previous Thirty-three Years by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice