But a fatal fascination seduced him to the neighborhood of the stove every now and then, and repeatedly the bar- keeper brought him back to the middle of the room and warned him to remain there.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Our occupation should be as free from severity as possible.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The objective reality of a pure will, or, what is the same thing, of a pure practical reason, is given in the moral law a priori, as it were, by a fact, for so we may name a determination of the will which is inevitable, although it does not rest on empirical principles.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

For what hinders it being born, and formed from some other source, and existing before it came into a human body, and yet, when it has come, and is separated from this body, its then also dying itself, and being destroyed?"
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

This god had his habitation in Landvidi (the wide land), a palace decorated with green boughs and fresh flowers, situated in the midst of an impenetrable primæval forest where reigned the deep silence and solitude which he loved.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

1763—Donmartin, a tinsmith of St. Benoit, France, invents a novel coffee pot, the inside of which is "filled by a fine flannel sack put in its entirety."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In another year I shall be able to begin advertising ferrets for sale in the sporting papers."
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

(Ah, where would be any food for spirituality without night and the stars?)
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The admiral next bore away for Fort St. David, on the coast of Coromandel, where the fleet soon afterwards arrived.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

He had waited up late the night before with her supper on the hob; and he and his wife had been anxious for fear something had happened to the poor girl who was under their care.
— from Over the Sliprails by Henry Lawson

It was not until some years after the conquest, when Western Canada, now Ontario, became a field for settlement, that any improvement of the navigation of the St. Lawrence was attempted.
— from England and Canada A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster, with Historical Notes by Sandford Fleming

I am far from meaning by all this, and your Lordship will be as far from suspecting me to mean, that an easy unconstrained manner is not an amiable and agreeable thing.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 4 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

She had been admired, followed, flattered; she had learned the authority of beauty.
— from The Last of the Barons — Volume 04 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

CXLI FOOD BOWLS WITH FIGURES OF BIRDS AND FEATHERS FROM SIKYATKI BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY—— SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL.
— from Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes

These tactics and the bombardment of Callao continued day after day, and the port seemed to be as far from surrendering as it was when they began; but the Chilians found, after the first few days, that it was necessary to lay down permanent moorings under San Lorenzo Island and buoy them, so that the fleet could leave its berth every night at dusk, and return when morning dawned.
— from Under the Chilian Flag: A Tale of War between Chili and Peru by Harry Collingwood