On a rough rocker beside him were two fragments of ore taken from the adjacent wall, the smallest of which the two arms of Aristides could barely clasp.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Thirdly, as regards the categories of a real relation between phenomena, the category of substance and its accidents is not suitable for the formation of a transcendental idea; that is to say, reason has no ground, in regard to it, to proceed regressively with conditions.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Raffles was worse, would take hardly any food, was persistently wakeful and restlessly raving; but still not violent.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Her head, set off by her dainty white gown, suggested a rich, rare blossom.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

"No word has passed," she patiently and resolutely resumed, "between myself and the person to whom I am now referring for the first and last time in your presence of my feelings towards him, or of his feelings towards me—no word ever can pass—neither he nor I are likely, in this world, to meet again.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Being loved, in turn, by Sarah Gobseck and Anastasie de Restaud, Maxime de Trailles, himself already ruined, ruined both of these; gaming was his master passion, and his caprices knew no bounds.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

But—the endless racket is not, as I soon notice, a real rattling, but really a ringing and with this ringing, as the awakened subject now realizes, the alarm has performed its duty."
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

All those who are interested in the spread of human culture among the lower animals (and their name is legion) should make a point of not missing the really marvellous exhibition of cynanthropy given by the famous old Irish red setter wolfdog formerly known by the sobriquet of Garryowen and recently rechristened by his large circle of friends and acquaintances Owen Garry.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

In a certain rite, of which we shall have occasion to speak, [387] it serves as the substance for a religious repast, but it plays no active rôle.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

These scholars, particularly Raumer and Ascoli, have given us, as far as I can judge, far more evidence in support of a radical relationship between Hebrew and Sanskrit than, from my point of view, we are entitled to expect.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

“I will make bread cheap for you,” says Sir ROBERT PEEL to the Paisley sufferers; “I will not enable you to buy the quartern loaf at a reduced rate by your own industry, but I will treat you to a penny roll, at its present size, from my own purse.”
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, by Various

"I am rather rushed," Barrent said.
— from The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley

Albert of Brandenburg, a prince of the enterprising house of Hohenzollern, was bred to the Church and rapidly rose by political influence to the highest ecclesiastical position in Germany.
— from Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau

The bones are frequently removed and the piece tied into a round roast, but at best it is tough although the flavor is good.
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard

C o r ó ss o l o , a robin red brest or red taile.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

It is organised religion against real religion, because religion is above and apart from all institutions.
— from Watersprings by Arthur Christopher Benson