Graham would endeavour to seduce her attention by opening his desk and displaying its multifarious contents: seals, bright sticks of wax, pen-knives, with a miscellany of engravings—some of them gaily coloured—which he had amassed from time to time.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

hinhin 2 a women refined and delicate in manners (colloquial).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I took physique this day, and was all day in my chamber, talking with my wife about her laying out of L20, which I had long since promised her to lay out in clothes against Easter for herself, and composing some ayres, God forgive me!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In this particular, the study of history confirms the reasonings of true philosophy; which, shewing us the original qualities of human nature, teaches us to regard the controversies in politics as incapable of any decision in most cases, and as entirely subordinate to the interests of peace and liberty.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Sometimes since I’ve been in the garden I’ve looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something were pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

If the mind, with greater facility, retains the ideas of geometry clear and determinate, it must carry on a much longer and more intricate chain of reasoning, and compare ideas much wider of each other, in order to reach the abstruser truths of that science.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something were pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

In 1896, during the few days before he could be returned to Manila, Doctor Rizal occupied a dungeon in Montjuich Castle in Barcelona; while on his way to assist the Spanish soldiers in Cuba who were stricken with yellow fever, he was shipped and sent back to a prejudged trial and an unjust execution.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

The absence of a wide range in the collection drives others away to books that are, doubtless, in many cases bad for their eyes.
— from A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects by Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore) Bostwick

The second distinctive and permanent settlement of Highland Scotch in the territory now constituting the United States of America was that in what was first called New Inverness on the Alatamaha river in Georgia, but now known as Darien, in McIntosh County.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

Influenced by this tale, he remained at Neverden spending day after day in most clumsily doing nothing at all.
— from Penelope: or, Love's Labour Lost, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

Another very important reason why fathers and sons have a difficulty in maintaining close friendships is the steady divergence of their experience.
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

But, on the whole, it seems that birds flock together, old and young, preparatory to moving south, and do in many cases initiate migration in company....
— from Studies of Birds Killed in Nocturnal Migration by Robert Morrow Mengel

"And now," said Loge, "if this is to be a duel indeed, Mr. Cleggett and I will need plenty of room, I suggest that the rest of you retire to the bulwarks and give us the deck to ourselves.
— from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis

This difference in the conformation of the skull is undoubtedly due to a difference in mental character, which, in turn, depends upon a difference in cerebral development.
— from Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg

In the former case he can obtain a distinction in mathematics, classics, the sciences, theology, etc.
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook