Boyowa, with the exception of Wawela and one or two other villages on the Eastern coast, [ 238 ] and in the South of the island, is an ethnographic district, where the flying witches do not exist, although they visit it from time to time.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

These are the Laws of the Refractions made out of Glass into Air, and thence by the third Axiom of the first Part of this Book, the Laws of the Refractions made out of Air into Glass are easily derived.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

The time of the two parties uniting in the Octagon Room being correctly adjusted, Catherine was then left to the luxury of a raised, restless, and frightened imagination over the pages of Udolpho, lost from all worldly concerns of dressing and dinner, incapable of soothing Mrs. Allen's fears on the delay of an expected dressmaker, and having only one minute in sixty to bestow even on the reflection of her own felicity, in being already engaged for the evening.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

To have loved you as much as anyone else does?
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

From an early display of talents and inclination to learning, his friends were induced to send him to Oxford, in order to cultivate and bring them to maturity.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

You have given an excellent description of it.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

"What an exquisitely delicious sleep I have been having," said she, as she passed her hands over her face, "in spite of all my misery.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

The result of the thoughts' operating on the data given to sense is to transform the order in which experience comes into an entirely different order, that of the conceived world.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Gitatakan lang ug Kristiyan Díyur, It’s not really an expensive dress.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Dr. Pye Smith thus summarises Berkeley’s views:—“He denied the existence of matter as a cause of our perceptions, but firmly maintained the existence of created and dependent spirits, of which every man is one; that to suppose the existence of sensible qualities and of a material world, is an erroneous deduction from the fact of our perceptions; that those perceptions are nothing but ideas and thoughts in our minds; that these are produced in perfect uniformity, order, and consistency in all minds, so that their occurrence is according to fixed rules, which may be called the laws of nature; that the Deity is either the immediate or the mediate cause of these perceptions, by his universal operation on created minds; and that the created mind has a power of managing these perceptions, so that volitions arise, and all the phenomena of moral action and responsibility.
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

The discovery of his mistake irritated him, but the irritation could not conquer its cause, and each day the longing to sit once more grew upon him until it became almost painful.
— from Flames by Robert Hichens

Paul will restore woman to her original and equal dignity. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

rough, typifies People rude and unorganized, 5-m. Asp, dedicated to Isis, worn on her head and on others', 501-m. Ass, Christians accused of worshipping an; origin of, 103-u. Assassins, fate of, foreshadows that of the enemies of liberty, 148-m. Assassins, Hindu Word formed by the three final syllables of names of, 82-m. Assassins, names of Good and Evil Deities contain the names of the, 82-m. Assassins of Khurum, names and relations to Stars, 488-l. Assassins of Khurum, symbols of foes of liberty, 148-m. Assistance of the humble worker in life's progress, 158-m. Astarte had a Temple built to her at Tyre by Hiram,
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

And now, while I think, that, since our labors began, weeks, even months, have passed, and that the term is already reached, when, according to the just expectations and earnest desires of many, they should be closed,
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Aspiring thoughts, and elegant desires, That fill the happiest man!
— from Venice Preserved: A Tragedy in Five Acts by Thomas Otway

A like noble self-devotion was shown at Carthage when the pestilence which had desolated Alexandria made its appearance in that city, and, I quote the words of a contemporary, 'All fled in horror from the contagion, abandoning their relations and friends as if they thought that by avoiding the plague any one might also exclude death altogether.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

Along the ridge which forms the boundary between Monk Coniston and Hawkshead is High Man (922 feet), where in a cairn is a stone with the initials "J. W., 1771" and "E. D., 1817," and on the west side of the stone "T. F., 1817"—evidently a merestone or boundary mark.
— from The Book of Coniston by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood

For a paper stained with the purple juice of radishes, when held at an equal distance over two vessels, the one containing potash and vinegar, the other the same alkali and Spiritus vitrioli tenuis , was unchanged by the former, but was spotted with red, in various parts, by the latter.
— from Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley