On the other hand Illinois was described as a hot and unhealthy region in substantiation of which a pale, sickly man was presented as the result of life in that state.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

For all our complex ideas are ultimately resolvable into simple ideas, of which they are compounded and originally made up, though perhaps their immediate ingredients, as I may so say, are also complex ideas.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Summer arrived, and dogs and men packed on their backs, rafted across blue mountain lakes, and descended or ascended unknown rivers in slender boats whipsawed from the standing forest.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

He saw Mrs. Fitzdottrel once before he went, and upon returning immediately seeks her out.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

At last the base of the cliff is undermined, huge fragments fall down, and these remaining fixed, have to be worn away, atom by atom, until reduced in size they can be rolled about by the waves, and then are more quickly ground into pebbles, sand, or mud.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

ATHENIAN: Upon reflection I see a way of imposing the law, which, in one respect, is easy, but, in another, is of the utmost difficulty.
— from Laws by Plato

Whenever you may feel that you can point out to me a single institution in our family or our public life which does not call for complete and unsparing rejection, I shall be pleased to accept your view."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

[Four are usually reckoned: Islām Shāh, Muhammad Shāh Ādil, Ibrāhīm Shāh, and Sikandar Shāh.] 17 .
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

He becomes more silent, retired, even secretive, when once an unsympathetic relationship is suggested between him and his elder.
— from The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin

"Attacking an unfortunate rabbit, I suppose," said Douglass, bravely.
— from Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

But Adela had found an unexpected relief in speaking thus openly; she was tempted to go further.
— from Demos by George Gissing

He, occupied in a recital of his troubles, noticed nothing beyond his own almost unconscious relief in speaking at length of the worries he had for so long kept to himself.
— from Mrs. Vanderstein's jewels by Bryce, Charles, Mrs.

On no occasion during the ministry of Jesus Christ are we so thoroughly convinced of the fatal danger of trusting in our own attainments and doings for our salvation, and of the absolute safety of reposing exclusive confidence in Him for this inestimable blessing, as when he places us in imagination on the shore, after the desolating storm has completed its work of destruction, leaving us to gaze on the ruins of the one house erected on the sand; while we see the other remaining secure on the unmoved and unshaken rock, in stern and tranquil defiance of all tempests and hurricanes.
— from The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Timothy East

The bold and daring of the shed indulge in many jeers and uncomplimentary remarks, if some others, in the face of real danger, should adopt precautionary measures and take heed of their safety, but experience has taught me that it is better to be apprehensive and cautious and to take pains to safeguard oneself than to score a cheap victory by bravado and carelessness.
— from Life in a Railway Factory by Alfred Williams

The dockyards as usual required incessant spurring and whipping up.
— from Rodney by David Hannay

Modern diving-bells are usually rectangular in shape, and have a trunk or tube on top reaching to the surface of the water, and fitted with an air-lock to enable men to go into or out of the bell without moving it from the bottom; they are fitted with telephones and electric lights.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various

I looked at the worlds about us revolving in space, and felt that a mighty harmony controlled the course of Nature.
— from Urania by Camille Flammarion

“I predict an unfriendly reception,” I said, panting from my exertions, and surveying my friend, who was a mockery of his ordinarily spruce self.
— from Bat Wing by Sax Rohmer