Which both are but powers; the one to affect our eyes after such a manner, and to produce in us that idea we call yellow; and the other to force upwards any other body of equal bulk, they being put into a pair of equal scales, one against another.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Now, I saw in my dream, that Christian went forth not alone; for there was one whose name was Hopeful (being so made by looking upon Christian and Faithful in their words and behavior in their sufferings at the fair,) who joined himself unto him, and, entering into a brotherly pledge told him that he would be his companion.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Yet he did not repress all boyish playfulness, since he declared it to be as necessary as a rash to a doctor, inasmuch as it enabled him to diagnose what lay hidden within.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Thence to White Hall, and after long waiting did get a small running Committee of Tangier, where I staid but little, and little done but the correcting two or three egregious faults in the Charter for Tangier after it had so long lain before the Council and been passed there and drawn up by the Atturney Generall, so slightly are all things in this age done.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

v [A1; b6] put up a protective covering, make into a protective covering.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But he whom Plato censured was not a boy playing at nuts, but a man throwing dice.]—reprehending a boy for playing at nuts, “Thou reprovest me,” says the boy, “for a very little thing.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

When, for example, you show an uneducated man a bust photograph, it may happen that he perceives the upper surroundings of shoulder and head as the lower contours of the background which is to indicate some fact, and if these contours happen to be, e.g., those of a dog, the man sees “a white dog.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

All being put off for to-day, I took my leave of Kate, who is mightily troubled at it for her estate sake, not for her husband; for her sorrow for that, I perceive, is all over.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In all other respects the similarity between men and animals, both psychical and bodily, is sufficiently striking.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Gorham made no answer, but patted his daughter's cheek affectionately as he turned from her to the genial face of his valet and general factotum.
— from The Lever: A Novel by William Dana Orcutt

This is by far the best of the Cape de Verd islands, four or five leagues west from Mayo; and, though mountainous, is the best peopled, having a very good harbour on its east side, much frequented by ships bound from Europe for the East Indies and the coast of Guinea, as also by Portuguese ships bound to Brazil, which come here to provide themselves with beef, pork, goats, fowls, eggs, plantains, and cocoa-nuts, in exchange for shirts, drawers, handkerchiefs, hats, waistcoats, breeches, and all sorts of linen, which are in great request among the natives, who are much addicted to theft.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

Ann and Bubble protested volubly.
— from Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

If, for example, it had declared that no State should pass any law impairing contracts prospectively or retrospectively ; or any law impairing contracts, whether existing or future; or, whatever terms it had used to prohibit precisely such a law as is now before the court,—the prohibition would be totally nugatory if the law is to be taken as part of the contract; and the result would be, that, whatever may be the laws which the States by this clause of the Constitution are prohibited from passing, yet, if they in fact do pass such laws, those laws are valid, and bind parties by a supposed assent.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

It is quite true that he assigns to selfishness and brutal passion a very large part in carrying on the machinery of the world.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen

In her parties, when conversation begins to pause, she introduces some of these melting epistles, which she is said to read with a bewitching pathos, and never fails to close the fond recital by expressions of the tenderest pity for the sufferings of their ill-starred authors.
— from The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

There where uprises a wild knoll, o’erstrewn With wrecks of ancient forest, in mid-stream Once rose an island, green and beautiful With willow and beech, poplar and sycamore; A river-island where the woodman built,— Stream-guarded from the savage-haunted shore,— His rude log cabin.
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 3 (of 5) Nature poems by Madison Julius Cawein

If a situation of this sort under some circumstances is not destitute of charms for the cavalier, it assumes another character when his fair burden has fully reached those years when she can stand alone, and becomes perfectly intolerable when the spectators instead of commiserating him and hastening to his relief, only move their hands to applaud like mad, and break into inextinguishable laughter.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

“And when?” “To-morrow,” said I. He shrugged his shoulder as to a boyish petulance, for he thought it an idle boast.
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Complete by Gilbert Parker