A teacher is expected to teach truth, and may perhaps flatter himself that he does so, if he stops with the alphabet or the multiplication table, as a mother teaches truth by making her child eat with a spoon; but morals are quite another truth and philosophy is more complex still.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

We have, however, already expressed our own view that in the Geographic Text we have the nearest possible approach to a photographic impression of Marco's oral narrative.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Accordingly we need not be surprised if aspiration, in all these men, finally takes a mystical turn; and Dante's ghostly friends, after propounding their aristocratic philosophy, to justify God in other men's eyes, are themselves on the point of quitting the lower sphere to which God had assigned them and plunging into the "sea" of his absolute ecstasy.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Considering how many hundreds of statues of the great Emperor must exist in London, it is too much to suppose such a coincidence as that a promiscuous iconoclast should chance to begin upon three specimens of the same bust.”
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Pierre had evoked the passionate affection of the Italian merely by evoking the best side of his nature and taking a pleasure in so doing.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Who wouldn't like to give an advice to a poor, ignorant Samana, who is coming from the jackals of the forest?" "Dear Kamala, thus advise me where I should go to, that I'll find these three things most quickly?" "Friend, many would like to know this.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

[ Sits down at the table and takes a pen in his hand .
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

In such extreme accidents, ‘tis cruelty to require so exact a composedness. ‘Tis no great matter that we make a wry face, if the mind plays its part well: if the body find itself relieved by complaining let it complain: if agitation ease it, let it tumble and toss at pleasure; if it seem to find the disease evaporate (as some physicians hold that it helps women in delivery) in making loud outcries, or if this do but divert its torments, let it roar as it will.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Th' old squire looked up at this, and peered in his way at the screen, and said, 'One pound thirteen for a gimcrack like that!
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

abir 1 particle used in calling attention to a point in contention.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Taking from her pocket the bulky envelope, she slipped it into the letter-box; then bending down, picked up a twig, and placed it in the slit, to prevent the lid falling with a rattle.
— from The Country House by John Galsworthy

Sweep it all together and put it into that empty barrel until we get out of dock and can heave it over the side.”
— from The Adventures of Dick Maitland: A Tale of Unknown Africa by Harry Collingwood

The butler brought in a tray, and placed it near him.
— from Prisoners: Fast Bound In Misery And Iron by Mary Cholmondeley

The other Mss. alluded to are preserved in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

"One moment, Mr. Poubalov," interrupted Clara; "your habit of circuitous approach to a point is still strong upon you, and according to your own admissions, it is out of place in conversation with me.
— from The Mission of Poubalov by Frederick R. (Frederick Russell) Burton

For all his horror of Jacobinism, Morris was a thorough American, perfectly independent, without a particle of the snob in his disposition, and valuing his acquaintances for what they were, not for their titles.
— from Gouverneur Morris by Theodore Roosevelt

" Presently he saw the old man come out and take a path into the woods.
— from Si Klegg, Book 5 The Deacon's Adventures at Chattanooga in Caring for the Boys by John McElroy