In this Proposition I suppose the transparent Bodies to be thick; because if the thickness of the Body be much less than the Interval of the Fits of easy Reflexion and Transmission of the Rays, the Body loseth its reflecting power.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Superfluous branches We lop away, that bearing boughs may live; Had he done so, himself had home the crown, Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The northern portion of Macaulay Town was bounded by Macaulay Lane, described by Walton as "fronting the fields."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Lucy thought she had never seen anything more beautiful; but Miss Lavish, with a shriek of dismay, dragged her forward, declaring that they were out of their path now by at least a mile.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

After these seven quatrains the following is added:— Telipok bunga telipai, Bunga kantan kĕmbang di hulu, Bangun bertepok membuang limbei Anak jantan sahaja bagitu.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The Queen of Bohemia was here, brought by my Lord Craven.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The company at Alick's end of the table took this form of vocal entertainment very much as a matter of course, being free from musical prejudices; but Bartle Massey laid down his pipe and put his fingers in his ears; and Adam, who had been lon
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

There I counted on getting information of any place that such a country girl as I might be fit for, and where I could get into any sort of being, before my little stock should be consumed; and as to a character, Esther had often repeated to me, that I might depend on her managing me one; nor, however affected I was at her leaving me thus, did I entirely cease to rely on her, as I began to think, good-naturedly, that her procedure was all in course, and that is was only my ignorance of life that had made me take it in the light
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

And without any other complaint, passive and obedient, either from true devotion to his master or from the example set by Blaisois, Mousqueton leaped into the sea headforemost.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

But by my love and hope I conjure thee: cast not away the hero in thy soul!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And here I set up as a bookseller, but men leave off reading, and if I were to turn butcher I believe they'd leave off eating.'
— from The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts

“I know nothing of the business, but Mr Lewis’s letter will explain it,” said the messenger, who was civil but not respectful; and the anxious mistress of the house hastened in with great apprehension and perplexity to open the letter and see what this explanation was.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Vol. 2/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Gravely and in silence Mr. Newton was conducted to the drawing-room, the best bedroom, Mrs. Liddell's, and the children's rooms.
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

That’s briefly been my life since we parted.”
— from The Bond of Black by William Le Queux

I did not know that she would ride farther than the fort and imagined she had gone on horseback so that she might the easier bring back my little sister.
— from The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

He answered: "The old one of Tynnichus is the best, and his compared with this, fare as the new statues do beside the old; for the latter, with all their simplicity, are considered divine; while the new, with all the care bestowed on their execution, are indeed admired, but bear much less of the impression of divinity."
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

If we can imagine a future time when warfare and crime shall have been done away with forever, when disease shall have been for the most part curbed, and when every human being by moderate labour can secure ample food and shelter, we can also see that in such a state of things the work of civilization would be by no means completed.
— from The Destiny of Man, Viewed in the Light of His Origin by John Fiske

167 They were a people who liked to open all the doors of enjoyment at once, and when they filled this enormous semicircle (24,000 could sit there) cut from the living rock upon the hillside, they could not only listen to the rolling, organ-like Greek of the great poets, and have their souls shaken with the “pity and terror” of tragedy, or laugh at the gay mockery of comedy, but by merely lifting their eyes they could look out upon the blue Ionian sea, the smiling flowered land, and in the distance the purple hills dappled with flying shadows.
— from Seekers in Sicily: Being a Quest for Persephone by Jane and Peripatetica by Anne Hoyt

Superb in one transcendent glance— Her eyes, I see, are burning black— My little neighbor, smiling, turns, And throws my unasked pity back.
— from Songs of the Silent World, and Other Poems by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Basil Blackwell & Mott, Ltd. (PCW); 7Dec55; R160430.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1955 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office