Much of the difficulty and obscurity which have, thus far, attended every discussion of this subject, will be removed by examining the definitions given to certain terms;—either by statement, or by implication in the use made of them;—by exposing the errors involved; and by clearly expressing the true signification of each term.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

“Yes, madam, if you are certain of giving me an exact description of the expression of her features.” We exchanged a glance, and no more was said about it.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If this had been done, it would doubtless have been interpreted into an entire dereliction of the federal principle; and would certainly have deprived the State governments of that absolute safeguard which they will enjoy under this provision.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Sykes ( Hist. of Persia , i. 470) thinks they can hardly be authentic, “but I do not reject it as entirely devoid of historical basis.”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

But had I written in French, I should have preserved the original and expressive denomination of vessiers or huissiers , from the huis or door which was let down as a draw-bridge; but which, at sea, was closed into the side of the ship, (see Ducange au Villehardouin, No. 14, and Joinville.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But if so, whenever the strings of the body are unduly loosened or overstrained through disease or other injury, then the soul, though most divine, like other harmonies of music or of works of art, of course perishes at once, although the material remains of the body may last for a considerable time, until they are either decayed or burnt.
— from Phaedo by Plato

She was planning something and either deciding or had already decided something in her mind.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

With individuals and voluntary associations, on the contrary, there are varied experiments, and endless diversity of experience.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

I was looking upon a god, an actual god, a recognized and accepted god; and every detail of his person and his dress had a consuming interest for me.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

He constructed a new wall, provided with lofty turrets and elaborate defences of every kind, immediately outside of the mole which connected this islet with Sicily.
— from History of Greece, Volume 10 (of 12) by George Grote

Thus the cylinder was never to be at a less temperature than 212°, and yet at each descent of the piston it was to be less than 100°,—conditions which, on the very face of them, seemed to be wholly incompatible.
— from Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends by Edward Everett Hale

Our actual existence is only the consequence of another, whether it be that we bear within ourselves the soul of a superior animal, which we must 204 purify, perfect, and ennoble, during our sojourn on earth; or that, having already fulfilled an imperfect and evil existence, we are condemned to re-commence it under new obligations.
— from The Day After Death; Or, Our Future Life According to Science (New Edition) by Louis Figuier

He was, moreover, an amateur artist of no ordinary skill, as extant drawings of his in water-colours attest.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

I suppose he had always some promising plot on hand, and his head full of ingenious treason, and lived on the sickly and exciting dietary of hope deferred.
— from J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The family heard me with avidity, each desirous of having a share in a lord, and the friends of a lord.
— from The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft

In four or five days' time the midget fleet were within an easy distance of Zanzibar, but stopped dead now till the darkness should fall.
— from The Sauciest Boy in the Service: A Story of Pluck and Perseverance by Gordon Stables

Another point in the copyright essay to which I would ask your attention is rather a feature to be extracted from the whole thing, than from any express declaration of it at any point.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

In an elaborate discussion of beauty of movement Stratz summarizes the special characters of the gait in woman as follows: "A woman's walk is chiefly distinguished from a man's by shorter steps, the more marked forward movement of the hips, the greater length of the phase of rest in relation to the phase of motion, and by the fact that the compensatory movements of the upper parts of the body are less powerfully supported by the action of the arms and more by the revolution of the flanks.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis

They have also suffered so much from the superiority of their enemies, that they are equally desirous of procuring arms and ammunition, which they are gradually acquiring, for the band of Tunnachemootoolt have already six guns, which they acquired from the Minnetarees.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark