If this illustration is typical, mind is not a name for something complete by itself; it is a name for a course of action in so far as that is intelligently directed; in so far, that is to say, as aims, ends, enter into it, with selection of means to further the attainment of aims.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

You and he are not friends; and if he should marry and have a child, yon may be disinherited, ha!
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

“Well,” said Miss Polly, “when you come next, Miss, we’ll have Mr. Smith’s room: and it’s a very pretty one, and only up one pair of stairs, and nicely furnished, and every thing.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Places of honour had been kept for the Miss Lammeters near the head of the principal tea-table in the wainscoted parlour, now looking fresh and pleasant with handsome branches of holly, yew, and laurel, from the abundant growths of the old garden; and Nancy felt an inward flutter, that no firmness of purpose could prevent, when she saw Mr. Godfrey Cass advancing to lead her to a seat between himself and Mr. Crackenthorp, while Priscilla was called to the opposite side between her father and the Squire.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

In the garden that afternoon, Nancy found a few minutes in which to interview Old Tom, who had pulled the weeds and shovelled the paths about the place for uncounted years.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

I know I shall do it again to-morrow; I know that I am in her power for always; if I never saw her again I should never think of anybody else during all my life; I must follow her as a needle follows a magnet; I would not go away now if I could; I could not leave her, my legs would not carry me, but my mind is still clear enough, and in my mind I hate her—at least, I think so.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

More tolerable is the drilled Bayonet-rank, than that undrilled Guillotine, incalculable as the wind.—How Sansculottism, writhing in death-throes, strove some twice, or even three times, to get on its feet again; but fell always, and was flung resupine, the next instant; and finally breathed out the life of it, and stirred no more: this we are now, from a due distance, with due brevity, to glance at; and then—O Reader!—Courage, I see land!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Like the swelling tide of the sea, the Saracen hordes had poured over the land; and now, through the Hammerer of the Franks, a voice had spoken: "Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." ARCH IN THE ALJAFERIA OF ZARAGOZA.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

According to the principles of those who maintain an abstract rational difference betwixt moral good and evil, and a natural fitness and unfitness of things, it is not only supposed, that these relations, being eternal and immutable, are the same, when considered by every rational creature, but their effects are also supposed to be necessarily the same; and it is concluded they have no less, or rather a greater, influence in directing the will of the deity, than in governing the rational and virtuous of our own species.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The double lights (which are seldom used except where there is a necessity for a leading line, as a guide for taking some channel or avoiding some danger) are generally exhibited from two towers, one of which is higher than the other.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

Meantime Farnese would build a new fleet at Emden, and in the spring the two dukes would proceed to accomplish the great purpose.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1588d by John Lothrop Motley

Just then the super gives Fuzzy a prod and he howls like Balaam's ass, but the coon stands there smiling and not feazed a bit.
— from Side Show Studies by Francis Metcalfe

Why are not facts advanced, they will be apt to say, to give a face of truth to these assertions?
— from Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe by Daniel Defoe

At this the other beggars came forward menacingly, and Number Five and Number Six put their arms round the boys, and their hands over their mouths.
— from Among the Brigands by James De Mille

Now you have released me from the spell completely, and I shall always be as I am now, fair and young, till old age shall change my beauty as he doth that of all mortals.
— from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

The German Empire is the clearinghouse, the adjutant, the executive officer, the official clerk, the representative in many social, financial, military, and diplomatic capacities of Germany; but it is not, and never for a moment should be confused with, what all Germans love, and what it has cost them blood and tears and great sacrifices to bring into the circle of the nations, the German Fatherland!
— from Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View by Price Collier

In transition days before the style known as Empire had become fixed there is exhibited in art a feeling which suggests the deliberate search after new forms and new ideas.
— from Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors by Arthur Hayden

Now thou'rt a noble foe, And in the field of honour I will meet thee, As knight encount'ring knight.
— from Percy: A Tragedy by Hannah More

There are no figures available as to the actual steam consumption of mechanical atomizing burners but apparently this is small if the requirement is understood to be entirely apart from the steam consumption of the apparatus producing the forced blast.
— from Steam, Its Generation and Use by Babcock & Wilcox Company