Young doctors, agricultural experts, teachers, intellectual workers generally—think of it!—are torn away from their honest work and forced for a crust of bread to take part in all sorts of mummeries which make every decent man feel ashamed!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I have had a kindly feeling, a friendly feeling, a cousinly feeling toward Simplified Spelling, from the beginning of the movement three years ago, but nothing more inflamed than that.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

And as he must not eat overmuch, so he may not absolutely fast; for as Celsus contends, lib.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In short, all the organs of sense are framed for a corresponding world of sense; and we have it.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

; since the which time it hath not been re-edified: only the great hall, with the offices near adjoining, are kept in good reparations, and serveth as afore for feasts at coronations, arraignments of great persons charged with treasons, keeping of the courts of justice, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

He is always distinguished in Virgil's Æneid by the epithet fidus , 'faithful', and has become typical of a faithful friend and companion.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

And except a man be lifted up in the spirit, and freed from all creatures, and altogether united to God, whatsoever he knoweth, whatsoever even he hath, it mattereth but little.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

"We have to bring away what is worth moving of this furniture, and it must all be clean and fresh, for a clean new house.
— from How It All Came Round by L. T. Meade

Merlin and his prophecies, And of a dragon and a finless fish, A clip-wing'd griffin and a moulten raven, A couching lion and a ramping cat, And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff As puts me from my faith.
— from The First Part of King Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare

Desires and capacities which, with careful nurture, might have come to a fair fruit, are chilled and nipped by the frost of neglect and ridicule.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various

So you have lost half of your men, and you have gained the king for a foe who shall bring about the death of all of us, and a fool for a councillor.
— from Nada the Lily by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Well, let me present a few facts and conditions which support the assertions, or which, to me, seem to make the statements assertions of fact.
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

As to the "debasement" of the fall, it is to be feared that the aboriginal ape would object to bearing the blame of existing human iniquities as having arisen from any improvement in his nature and habits; and it is scarcely fair to speak of Adam as "formed from a clod of earth," which is not precisely in accordance with the record.
— from Facts and fancies in modern science Studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief by Dawson, John William, Sir

As regards the middle or most hilly part of the island, it is uninhabited, although the soil is better than the land around it; but, in consequence of its being away from the water, and lying so high, no one will live there, the creeks and rivers being so serviceable to them in enabling them to go to the city, and for fishing and catching oysters, and for being near the salt meadows.
— from Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts

That’s why I want all the fellows I can get who happen to know a football from a chocolate sundae, and that’s why I’d like to see this here Jim Long-legged
— from Right Tackle Todd by Ralph Henry Barbour

The lines, simple as they were, opened a new gate in my imagination beyond which I heard often the sound of music and flowing fountains and caught glimpses, now and then, of magic towers and walls of alabaster.
— from The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright by Irving Bacheller