Music to be mingled with gymnastic, and both attempered to the individual soul.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The form of Hawkeye had crouched like a beast about to take its spring, and his frame trembled so violently with eagerness that the muzzle of the half-raised rifle played like a leaf fluttering in the wind.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

It is thus admitted by all that there is such a thing as moral right , the refusal of which is injustice.
— from Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

How to Prepare and Use the Mustard Pack .—The child is stripped and laid upon a blanket, and the trunk is surrounded by a large towel or sheet saturated with mustard water.
— from The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 4 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

It was the tenth of November when my accident happened: it was late in February before I again sat up and began to feel once more that I belonged to the world of flesh and blood, and to take in slowly, with unaccustomed mind and ear, sights and sounds outside the monotonous world of pain where I had lived so long that I felt bitterly I had earned the right to die.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various

You might sever us 'temporarily,' but I should go back to him as soon as I went twenty-one and marry him over again," and her face flushed crimson, and she lifted her brimming eyes to her father and added: "But all the time I should love you.
— from Playing With Fire by Amelia E. Barr

He could volunteer if he chose, [Footnote: Strenuous efforts were made in 1709 to induce the "Poor Palatines"—seven thousand of them encamped at Blackheath, and two thousand in Sir John Parson's brewhouse at Camberwell—to enter for the navy.
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

He always called himself a Brāhman, and though thinking it somewhat curious that a Brāhman should be a gardener, I took no notice of it until he asked leave to attend the funeral of his niece, whose father was a Government menial, an Agarwāla Bania.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Page 189 Of some things we feel very sure: that matter was once without form and void, and darkness rested on the face of the mighty deeps; that, instead of chaos, we have now cosmos and beauty; and that there is some process by which matter has been brought from one state to the other.
— from Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren

I am thinking rather of stuffy halls in which an earnest voice is expounding "the evolution of capitalism," of little groups, curious and bewildered, listening in the streets of New York to the story of the battle between the "master class" and the "working class," of little red pamphlets, of newspapers, and cartoons--awkward, badly printed and not very genial, a great stream of spellbinding and controversy through which the aspirations of millions are becoming articulate: The tradition is saying that "the system" and not the individual is at fault.
— from A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann

I shall make them a bow, and thank them; I shall resign with pleasure.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce