Since at the sight of a ram, mad elephants recover their former senses.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

And at that, up I jumped, and rubbing my eyes, ran to a loophole in the wall.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

So far as reality means experienceable reality, both it and the truths men gain about it are everlastingly in process of mutation-mutation towards a definite goal, it may be—but still mutation.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

She at once wrote to all parts of the State urging the unions to send delegates, and received many encouraging replies.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

These precious constitutional and responsible ministers even restored to their posts those functionaries whom the people, in the first heat of revolutionary ardor, had driven away on account of their former acts of bureaucratic overbearing.
— from Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Or, Germany in 1848 by Friedrich Engels

"She's all right, mother," Ernie replied.
— from One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex by Alfred Ollivant

Mr. Goodhue considered molasses as a raw material, essentially requisite for the well-being of a very extensive and valuable manufacture.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

"And no doubt you also remember my extreme regret that we had not with us that energetic young wasp, Random Jack, so that we might have either bumped him on the boundary, or whipped him on the breech."
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton

Johnny (off r.) All right, Mummie. (entering r.)
— from The Last of the De Mullins: A Play Without a Preface by St. John Hankin

Supper was late that evening, for Dick had two extra persons to provide for, and it was incumbent, besides, to set a rather more elaborate repast than usual.
— from Harry's Island by Ralph Henry Barbour

Surely then we must not insist that divine wisdom must always run in a rut, must ever repeat itself, must never exhibit itself in unique acts like incarnation and resurrection.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong