He was ignorant and they were wise; they had been everywhere and tried everything.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Before eating anything they each drank a wineglassful of bitter liqueur, with an air as though they had drunk it by accident for the first time in their lives and both were overcome with confusion and burst out laughing.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He was allowed the widest latitude of boasting, even at the expense of his captors and their tribe.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

One point of great importance in the relation of these two forms of canoe is that one of them has, within the last two generations, been expanding at the expense of the other.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

It was the custom of the ancients, before entering a temple, either to sprinkle themselves with water, or to wash the body all over.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be such as a worthy mind can fully delight in.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In point of fact, I had been expecting a tragic ending—when, lo!
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

If you consider well of the people of the West Indies, it is very probable that they are a newer, or a younger people than the people of the old world; and it is much more likely that the destruction that hath heretofore been there, was not by earthquakes, (as the Egyptian priest told Solon, concerning the 294 Island of Atlantis, 596 that it was swallowed by an earthquake), but rather that it was desolated by a particular deluge, for earthquakes are seldom in those parts; but, on the other side, they have such pouring rivers, as the rivers of Asia, and Africa, and Europe, are but brooks to them.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Speaking generally, if it is desirable to restrict a man’s studies to what is useful, this is even more necessary for women, whose life, though less laborious, should be even more industrious and more uniformly employed in a variety of duties, so that one talent should not be encouraged at the expense of others.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Not many of the strictly littoral animals, or of those which lived on naked submarine rocks, would be embedded; and those embedded in gravel or sand would not endure to a distant epoch.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Secondly, he alleged popery had been encouraged and the ecclesiastical jurisdiction enlarged.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

My walks had been wide and frequent in the country about Rochdale; and many a time have I lingered and wondered at Littleborough, near the spot where history says that the Romans [Pg 111] encamped themselves, at the foot of Blackstone Edge, at the entrance of what would, then, be the impassable hills, and woody glens, and swampy bottoms of the Todmorden district.
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh

The empire of reason has been enlarged at the expense of faith, whose provinces have one after another been annexed until only a small territory is left her, and that she finds it difficult to keep.
— from Arrows of Freethought by G. W. (George William) Foote

But the Drenthe dolmens have one peculiarity not found either in France or Ireland: that they are all closed at both ends, and the entrance, where there is one, is always on the longer side.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

The light from a gas burner enters at the extremity of the instrument and first passes through the “regulator A,” which consists of the double refracting Nicol’s prism a and the quartz plate b , it being so arranged that it can be turned round its own plane, thus varying the tint of the light used, so as to best neutralise that possessed by the sugar solution to be examined.
— from Food Adulteration and Its Detection With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendix by Jesse P. (Jesse Park) Battershall

He said that the Governor had despatched them to the Prince, to express his good intentions, to represent the fidelity with which his promises had thus far been executed, and to entreat the Prince, together with the provinces of Holland and Zealand, to unite with their sister provinces in common allegiance to his Majesty.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley

For a long period no doubt the chief trade of the Baltic was with the Byzantine Empire and the East.
— from Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales' by Frederic Seebohm

About A.D. 50, an important discovery was made which greatly facilitated intercourse between Egypt and the East, and diminished the time occupied by the voyage.
— from The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant. To Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade by Henry Lee

Hence it is fitting that the spiritual nature should be established above the entire corporeal nature, as presiding over it.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint