Before bodily habits become fixed you may teach what habits you will without any risk, but once habits are established any change is fraught with peril.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And similarly we find a relationship between other destructive forces.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Thus the person who was killed on the harvest-field as the representative of the corn-spirit may have been either a passing stranger or the harvester who was last at reaping, binding, or threshing.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Whether this was so or not, it is certain that all good dissection puzzles (for the nursery type of jig-saw puzzle, which merely consists in cutting up a picture into pieces to be put together again, is not worthy of serious consideration) are really based on geometrical laws.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Just now I feel as if twenty years' hard study of law would be amply rewarded by one year of such an exquisite serene life as this—such skies!'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

There was a regular beat of hoofs in the darkness, and a big troop-horse cantered up as steadily as though he were on parade, jumped a gun tail, and landed close to the mule.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The truth seems to be that there were two distinct columns of Napoleon’s Guards launched against our troops at the close of Waterloo, and that whilst one was met and routed by our Guards in the centre, the other was attacked in flank by the 52nd and hurled back.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

( A renewed burst of cheering announces their arrival on the balcony .
— from The Master of Mrs. Chilvers: An Improbable Comedy by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR With a rustle born of plenteous starch, a quiver of nodding roses on her hat and an ultra-evident aroma of violet preceding her coming, Katharine swept across the floor and halted beside Opdyke's couch.
— from The Brentons by Anna Chapin Ray

This was the ordinary forest attire of the American rifleman; being of a character, as it was thought, to conceal the person in the woods, by blending its hues with those of the forest.
— from Oak Openings by James Fenimore Cooper

Bombs played the principal part, and the trench shook to their rapid re-echoing clashes, flamed and flared to their bursts of fire, while overhead the British shells still rushed and dropped a roaring barrage of fire beyond the raided area.
— from Front Lines by Boyd Cable

In 1998, a rebellion broke out in northern Chad, which sporadically flares up despite several peace agreements between the government and the rebels.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

When a rebellion broke out in one of our colonies,—a rebellion too which it might have been expected that the Irish would regard with favour, for it was a rebellion of Roman Catholics against Protestant rulers,—even then Ireland was true to the general interests of the empire, and troops were sent from Munster and Connaught to put down insurrection in Canada.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

One afternoon one of them on a rough bit of road said, “Gentlemen, whenever you wish to open a page 322 p. 322 bottle of champagne, please to pull the cord and stop the train.
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

Being a perfect master of the French language, he was one of the British officers sent with Napoleon Bonaparte to the island of St. Helena, and afterwards recalled by our Government on the suspicion of being too intimate with the ex-Emperor.
— from Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran by Joseph Jocelyn Anderson