This is a matter of daily experience, in our professional as well as in our ordinary affairs.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

To serve the divine spirit which is implanted within him, a man must 'keep himself pure from all violent passion and evil affection, from all rashness and vanity, and from all manner of discontent, either in regard of the gods or men': or, as he says elsewhere, 'unspotted by pleasure, undaunted by pain.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

His service doth consist in this, that a man keep himself pure from all violent passion and evil affection, from all rashness and vanity, and from all manner of discontent, either in regard of the gods or men.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Spotless and glittering in their uniforms were the cadets, and they went through all manner of difficult evolutions in perfect unison, marching with lines as straight and even [Pg 86] as the eye could wish.
— from A Cadet's Honor: Mark Mallory's Heroism by Upton Sinclair

The upper surfaces of these are termed the pronotum, mesonotum, and metanotum respectively, and the under the prosternum, mesosternum, and metasternum; other divisions exist in some insects, but they are not of a sufficiently {3} general character to be noticed here.
— from An Elementary Manual of New Zealand Entomology Being an Introduction to the Study of Our Native Insects by G. V. (George Vernon) Hudson

Invested with the title of Concertmaster by the Grand Duke, as a mark of distinction, Ebert, in the same year, accepted the offer of being first cellist of the Gürzenich orchestra in Cologne, and teacher at the Conservatoire of the Rhenish metropolis.
— from The Violoncello and Its History by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski

It is absolutely arbitrary to seek for an example and a model of ‘decadent’ expression in the language of the Later Roman Empire.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

The ancient Hebrews believed that Palestine was the world; all the rest was a mere outlying district environing it, the back yard as it were.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, October 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

The change in the finite subject, we are told, is a matter of direct experience; it is a fact, and hence it cannot be explained away.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

He takes a breve rest, quavering with a minimum of divergent emotion in the effort to be natural.
— from The Nurserymatograph by G. A. T. (George A. T.) Allan

des, often sells bad commodities, [308] adulterates, and uses false weights and measures, or deals exclusively in commodities that imperil human life, such as alcohol or opium) frankly considers himself, and is considered by others,—always provided he only does not cheat his colleagues in business and knavery, his fellow-tradesmen,—a model of conscientiousness and honesty.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And this was a moment of dire exigency, in which much had to be said in the most energetic manner.
— from The Lady of the Ice: A Novel by James De Mille