In THE IDIOT BOY, indeed, the mother's character is not so much the real and native product of a "situation where the essential passions of the heart find a better soil, in which they can attain their maturity and speak a plainer and more emphatic language," as it is an impersonation of an instinct abandoned by judgment.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Another pause, and more eying and sidling around each other.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

“So long as prisons and madhouses exist someone must be shut up in them.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Others are of opinion that these feats, which most suppose to be done by charms and philters, are merely effected by natural causes, as by man's blood chemically prepared, which much avails, saith Ernestus Burgravius, in Lucerna vitae et mortis Indice, ad amorem conciliandum et odium , (so huntsmen make their dogs love them, and farmers their pullen,) 'tis an excellent philter, as he holds, sed vulgo prodere grande nefas , but not fit to be made common: and so be Mala insana , mandrake roots, mandrake [5233] apples, precious stones, dead men's clothes, candles, mala Bacchica, panis porcinus, Hyppomanes , a certain hair in a [5234] wolf's tail, &c., of which Rhasis, Dioscorides, Porta, Wecker, Rubeus, Mizaldus, Albertus, treat: a swallow's heart, dust of a dove's heart, multum valent linguae viperarum, cerebella asinorum, tela equina, palliola quibus infantes obvoluti nascuntur, funis strangulati hominis, lapis de nido Aquilae , &c. See more in Sckenkius observat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Though that sensibility of heart, which enables us truly to enjoy our being, is the work of Nature, and perhaps a mere effect of organization, yet it requires situations to unfold itself, and without a certain concurrence of favorable circumstances, a man born with the most acute sensibility may go out of the world without ever having been acquainted with his own temperament.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"She's in my sitting room at this moment, dressed in silk gauze and lace petticoats, giving a party at my expense.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A philosophic age may excuse a single vice, which was redeemed by a crowd of virtues; and in the review of his faults, and the more intemperate passions of Lascaris, the judgment of their contemporaries was softened by gratitude to the second founders of the empire.
— 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

The accusative with the infinitive is used with iubeō and vetō , sinō and patior : as, mīlitēs ex oppidō exīre iussit , 2, 33, 1, he ordered the soldiers to go out of the town .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

On leaving us, she cautioned me to be as gentle and obedient as possible, as Miss Evelyn was poorly and out of spirits.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The form of the thorax, in relation to that of the abdomen, may be learned from the fact that a gunshot, which shall enter a little below N, Plate 1, and, after traversing the body transversely, shall pass out at a corresponding point at the opposite side, would open the thorax and the abdomen into a common cavity; for it would pierce the thorax at N, the arching diaphragm at the level of M, and thereat enter the belly; then it would enter the thorax again at P, and make exit below N, opposite.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The letters from the continent now teemed with preparations for the approaching contest; and the apprehensions of our heroine and her friends increased, in proportion to the nearness of the struggle, on which hung not only the fates of thousands of individuals, but of adverse princes and mighty empires.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

But as it is natural and very common for a rude nation to imitate rudely the conceptions of a polished people, it is not surprising that the Jews imagined a woman formed from the side of a man, the spirit of life breathed from the mouth of God on the face of Adam—the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Nile and the Oxus, having all the same source in a garden, and the forbidden fruit, which brought death into the world, as well as physical and moral evil.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 01 by Voltaire

Nationality: noun: Marshallese (singular and plural) adjective: Marshallese Ethnic groups: Micronesian Religions: Christian (mostly Protestant) Languages: English (universally spoken and is the official language), two major Marshallese dialects from the Malayo-Polynesian family, Japanese Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 93% male: 100% female: 88% (1980 est.)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Such of them as were partisans of the arrested polemarch, and many even of the more neutral members, left the Senate and went home, thankful to escape with their lives.
— from History of Greece, Volume 10 (of 12) by George Grote

My description of the latter set her off in raging lust, and produced another most excellent fuck.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The metal was obtained for the first time in this manner by Gahn, after Pott, and more especially Scheele, had in the last century shown the difference between the compounds of iron and manganese (they were previously regarded as being the same).
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Admitting what is charged—that Great Britain has adopted a policy, and made efforts to abolish slavery in Texas, with a view to its abolition in the United States—yet this is not to be done by force, or magic.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

I know of a person, a most excellent, economical managing woman, who is competent in every way to undertake the situation.
— from My Mother's Rival Everyday Life Library No. 4 by Charlotte M. Brame

Tacitus describes it in the words, 'Arva per annos mutant, et superest ager.'
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm