To what extent has progress been a result ( a ) of eugenics, ( b ) of tradition?
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Makanal (mukanal) pirmi ang búla inigdúwà níyag búling, The ball always rolls along the groove whenever he bowls.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

in attempting to pass by a rock against which the Current run with emence force, the bow unfortunately took the Current at too great a distance from the rock, She turned broad Side to the Stream, and the exertions of every man was not Sufficient to hold her.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Now, the proof of "woman's love," so industriously held forth for the sympathy, if not for the esteem of the audience, consists in this, that, though Bertram had become a robber and a murderer by trade, a ruffian in manners, yea, with form and features at which his own mother could not but "recoil," yet she (Lady Imogine) "the wife of a most noble, honoured Lord," estimable as a man, exemplary and affectionate as a husband, and the fond father of her only child—that she, notwithstanding all this, striking her heart, dares to say to it—
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With the centres A and B and radius AB describe the two circles.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

"If I ask her," Pao-yü observed, "to pour it, she wouldn't be as ready as she would were you to tell her about it."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

When Lady Bareacres met her in the waiting-room at the opera, she gathered her daughters about her as if they would be contaminated by a touch of Becky, and retreating a step or two, placed herself in front of them, and stared at her little enemy.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Life implies the acceptance only of the UTILITARIAN side of things in order to respond to them by appropriate reactions: all other impressions must be dimmed or else reach us vague and blurred.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

[*] I am informed by a renowned and learned Egyptologist, to whom I have submitted this very interesting and beautifully finished scarab, “Suten se Ra,” that he has never seen one resembling it.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Hints to Travellers—Everyday Expressions—Arriving at and Leaving a Railway Station—Custom House Enquiries—In a Train—At a Buffet and Restaurant—At an Hotel—Paying an Hotel Bill—Enquiries in a Town—On Board Ship—Embarking and Disembarking—Excursion by Carriage—Enquiries as to Diligences—Enquiries as to Boats—Engaging Apartments—Washing List and Days of Week—Restaurant Vocabulary—Telegrams and Letters, etc., etc.
— from Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon) Talbot

Shaved and bathed, clad in one of his favourite blue serge suits, patent shoes and spotless gaiters, a bunch of violets in his buttonhole, a sense of stupefied but immeasurable satisfaction radiating from him, he took his place at the round luncheon table, between Aaron Rodd and Henriette, and raised the glass of amber liquid which he found waiting there, to his lips.
— from Aaron Rodd, Diviner by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The old apostle was seated at his small table by the half-open window, grinding the edges of a lens to fit the brass mounting at his side; while his daughter Uta, a still good-looking, quiet, broad-faced South German woman, about forty or a little more, sat close by, busily translating a scientific book into English by alternate reading and consultation with her father.
— from Philistia by Grant Allen

Blue Anchor Road and Blue Anchor Lane received their names from “The Blue Anchor,” an old tavern that stood in the latter thoroughfare; while Jamaica Road recalls a similar establishment, formerly situated on the site of Cherry Gardens , a popular place of resort in bygone times, known as “The Jamaica,” after the West Indian Island whence rum was shipped and disembarked on the exact spot where the penny steamboats now land and take up their passengers at Cherry Gardens Pier .
— from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner

Though there may be no sound for the ear nor symbol for the eye, the word inly spoken serves to fix the otherwise transient thought so that it can be afterward recalled, and perhaps uttered, to stimulate the thinking of others.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, April 1885 by Chautauqua Institution

You have been selected from among many other candidates, and you have not only to justify the choice, but to uphold the reputation and honour of the young knights of your Order, by all of whom your doings will be regarded with special interest, as reflecting credit not only upon yourselves individually, but as representatives and champions of them all.'
— from A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I have often observed, on eating twenty or more of these at a time, that the urine becomes as red as blood, but without producing any evil consequence.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

Then Allan lagged behind and rose above them to a height of five thousand feet.
— from On Adventure Island by Bess Moyer

It is a rugged country pierced by angry rivers and dotted by lakes, but a gasolene launch brought up supplies, the tents were large and double-roofed, and for a few weeks one could play at pioneering without its hardships.
— from Lister's Great Adventure by Harold Bindloss

If this new teacher, this upstart—in their own language, “this fellow—of whom every man knew whence he was,” were to go about the length and breadth of the land, telling sinners to be at peace; telling them to forget the past, and to work onwards; bidding men's consciences be at rest; and commanding them not to fear the God whom they had offended, but to trust in Him—what would become of morality and religion?
— from Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Frederick William Robertson