It therefore frequently happens that at the same time, and in the same part of the country, one body of men are in battle array, and engaged in contests with the enemy, while others are ploughing or digging in security, having these soldiers to protect them.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

In a passion of despair I struck with my fists at the water in the bottom of the boat, and kicked savagely at the gunwale.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He glanced across the top of the paper he was reading, showing a pair of dark, insincere, sharp-staring eyes.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Yes'um, dey must been bless wid a pile of dem, I say, en every colored person used to follow up de same name as dey white folks been hear to."
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

When a man bred in Massachusetts, whose Constitution declares that "All men are born free and equal;" within sight of Faneuil Hall, with all its sacred memories; within two hours of Plymouth Rock; within a single hour of Concord and Lexington; in sight of Bunker Hill,—when he will do such a deed, it seems to me that there is no life of crime long enough to prepare a man for such a pitch of depravity; I should think he must have been begotten in sin, and conceived in iniquity, and been born "with a dog's head on his shoulders;" that the [Pg 276] concentration of the villany of whole generations of scoundrels would hardly be enough to fit a man for a deed like this!
— from Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Theodore Parker

A special technique is necessary to the teacher who is to lead the child along such a path of discipline, if she is to make it possible for him to continue in this way all his life, advancing indefinitely toward perfect self-mastery.
— from The Montessori Method Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in 'The Children's Houses' with Additions and Revisions by the Author by Maria Montessori

In addition, a Professor of Defence inculcated skill at all weapons and wrestling (but not pugilism apparently), and ample instruction was to be afforded in riding, dancing, and behaviour, painting, sculpture, and writing.
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

High purple curtains, dark as a merciless passion, around a bed deep as a sepulchre—that is what is evoked by the Erotic of Edward Grieg; and also a promise of death in silent voluptuousness, and a boundless kingdom, rich in all the wealth of the earth, waiting in vain for its vanished king, its dying king, in the nuptial and funereal purple.
— from The Triumph of Death by Gabriele D'Annunzio

Relatione della Navigatione & scoperta che fece il Capitano Fernando Alarcone per ordine dello Illustrissimo Signor Don Antonio di Mendozza Vice
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

Dr. Breed has pointed out that the large increase of women hymnists, as well as the preponderance of hymn translations, is indicative of a period of decadence in sacred song.
— from The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden

It is thus adopted as a principle of decision in Seaman’s Friend Society v. Hopper, [89] by Judge Denio: “If a person persistently believes supposed facts, which have no real existence except in his perverted imagination, and against all evidence and probability, and conducts himself, however logically, upon the assumption of their existence, he is, so far as they are concerned , under a morbid delusion, and delusion in that sense is insanity.
— from The Curiosities and Law of Wills by John Proffatt