This animal cult expresses itself primarily in the attitude towards the totem animal, quite aside from special ceremonies and ceremonial festivities: not only each individual animal but every representative of the same species was to a certain degree a sanctified animal; the member of the totem was forbidden to eat the flesh of the totem animal or he was allowed to eat it only under special circumstances.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

He himself was a Conservative, even in private life.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Thus as certain sounds and smells are always found to attend certain visible objects, we naturally imagine a conjunction, even in place, betwixt the objects and qualities, though the qualities be of such a nature as to admit of no such conjunction, and really exist no where.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Habit in all these cases appears to have come to a certain extent into play; but there must be some fundamental cause in the constitution of the nervous system in each species.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

This night I tremble at the avowal—I held her in my arms, locked in a close embrace: I pressed her to my bosom, and covered with countless kisses those dear lips which murmured in reply soft protestations of love.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In 1880 M. Tolouse, a civil engineer in Paris, in executing some alterations in the neighbourhood of the Avenue Choisy, discovered the grave of a surgeon, containing a bronze pot full of surgical instruments.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

[A; c1] engage in physical exercise.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Perhaps out of pure heavenly goodness the spring came and crowned everything it possibly could into that one place.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Perhaps out of pure heavenly goodness the spring came and crowded everything it possibly could into that one place.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A curious effect is produced on the meaning of a word when the very term which is stigmatized by the world (e.g. Methodists) is adopted by the obnoxious or derided class; this tends to define the meaning.
— from Sophist by Plato

To myself relations with others are cheerful enough, interesting, perplexing—but seldom absorbing, or overwhelming; such experiences never seem to say the ultimate word or to sound the deeper depth.
— from The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson

The program has been arranged after conferences, either in person or by letter, with the leading physiologists of the world, and may take ten years to complete.
— from How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher

She was having, it is true, no physical recreation, but, apart from that, her faculties were all called equally into play.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

The adult Cucullanus elegans is parasitic in the alimentary tract of the Perch and other freshwater fishes.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Between those two meals, there came a tea which was neither high or low, and whose hour, six o'clock in theory, depended to a certain extent, in practice, on Mr. Orgreave's arrival from the office.
— from Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett

Shall stories be told of our citizenship, such as I have read in the Pennsylvania Magazine, of the citizenship there: if my memory serves me right, the story runs, that at a contested election in Philadelphia, when parties ran very high, and no stone was left unturned, on either side, to carry the election, most of the ships in the harbor were cleared of their crews, who, ranged under the masters and owners, came before a magistrate, took the oath of allegiance, and paid half-a-crown tax to the collector, as the constitution required, then went and voted, and decided the contest of the day.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Nouvellement ainsi composee et imprimee par Guyot Marchant demorant a Paris au grant hostel du college de Navarre en champ Gaillart lan de grace, 1486, le septieme jour de juing.”
— from The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

We are leagues ahead of Germany, where steps are only now being taken to provide the Cavalry with a carbine equal in power to the Infantry rifle; leagues ahead of Austria and France; leagues ahead of Russia, unless since 1905 she has revolutionized her training.
— from War and the Arme Blanche by Erskine Childers

Carrera's failure at Chillan cost him his prestige, his rivals at Santiago took advantage of his absence to expel him from the junta, his violent measures at Concepcion exasperated its people to revolt, and his own troops became mutinous.
— from The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson