The latter to be cleansed and fresh plastered, and the image of the blessed Virgin to be placed on it.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

It is not good form for an engaged couple to dine together in a restaurant, but it is all right for them to lunch, or have afternoon tea; and few people would criticize their being at the opera or the theater—unless the performance at the latter was of questionable propriety.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

It was inevitable that this one case of a social relation grounded on force, would survive through generations of institutions grounded on equal justice, an almost solitary exception to the general character of their laws and customs; but which, so long as it does not proclaim its own origin, and as discussion has not brought out its true character, is not felt to jar with modern civilization, any more than domestic slavery among the Greeks jarred with their notion of themselves as a free people.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

And thus all mathematical demonstrations, as well as first principles, must be received as native impressions on the mind; which I fear they will scarce allow them to be, who find it harder to demonstrate a proposition than assent to it when demonstrated.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

It is now time to turn our view from the general consideration of sympathy, to its influence on pride and humility, when these passions arise from praise and blame, from reputation and infamy.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Other authors helped to popularize and extend Slang down to our own time, and it has now taken a somewhat different turn, dropping many of the Cant and old vulgar words, and assuming a certain quaint and fashionable phraseology—familiar, utilitarian, and jovial.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Tragic myth, in so far as it really belongs to art, also fully participates in this transfiguring metaphysical purpose of art in general: What does it transfigure, however, when it presents the phenomenal world in the guise of the suffering hero?
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

While I was shuffling a fresh pack of cards, the youngest of them drew out of his pocket-book a paper which he spewed to his two companions.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

A common practice is to devote a fixed proportion of the profits—at least five per cent—to advertising.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

the most that can be done is to indicate the broad lines of the policy that has actuated it, and risk such errors as must accrue from possible mistranslations of meaning.
— from The Story of Moscow by Wirt Gerrare

It must, of course, have been going on in other parts of the country as well, but I saw it all from Missinaba County which, with the town of Mariposa, was, of course, the storm centre and focus point of the whole turmoil.
— from Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock

With a fine patronage the reviewer concludes that "upon the whole, the story is amusing, the characters kept up, and many reflections which [sic] are useful, if the reader will but take notice of them, which in this unthinking age it is to be feared very few will.
— from Henry Fielding: a Memoir Including Newly Discovered Letters and Records with Illustrations from Contemporary Prints by G. M. (Gertrude M.) Godden

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— from Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 2 [February 1902] Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

If, too, a vessel's papers showed her to be destined for Vintimiglia, near the extreme of the Genoese line, there could be no certainty that, having got so far, she might not quietly slip by into a French port, either Nice or beyond.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

At the moment she thought Blanchet a sham, and Heron rather a weak and foolish person for encouraging him.
— from The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various

Their laughs should not affect you (I may perhaps give you reasons some day for these laughs, for I suspect a few people to hate me well enough, for reasons I know of , who have pretended a great friendship for me) when in competition with one, who if he should never see you again would make you the Saint of his memory.
— from Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

Towards nightfall these screens are usually folded up so as to allow a free passage of air throughout the house.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

In conformity with international conventions, every representative accredited to a foreign power as ambassador is an untouchable, inviolable person—wherever he may be....
— from A Nest of Spies by Pierre Souvestre