Of minor intellectual excellences, some are not strictly Virtues: others are, such as Caution and Decision, being in part voluntary.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Whilst the foregoing conversation had been in progress, various witnesses had been arriving on the scene.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

It never rains but it pours: Vasya was summoned to the recruiting office to draw lots for the service.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He walked calmly and read mutely the nones, walking and reading till he came to Res in Beati immaculati: Principium verborum tuorum veritas: in eternum omnia iudicia iustitiæ tuæ.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Oh, you know what I mean—of course there isn't anything, REALLY; but I suppose she brought in Prince Varigliano—and Lord Hubert—and there was some story of your having borrowed money of old Ned Van Alstyne: did you ever?" "He is my father's cousin," Miss Bart interposed.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

He snubbed my advances at first, but I presently ventured to offer him a new chalk pipe; and that softened him.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

That one places the coon anywhere in sight, high or low, but in plain view; all come in and seek.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

You will see the necessity, I hope, of quitting Oxford—at all events, of quitting instantly my chambers.” Abased, humbled to the dust as I then was, it is probable that I should have resented this galling language by immediate personal violence, had not my whole attention been at the moment arrested by a fact of the most startling character.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Goldenberg , D., was born in Piatka, Volhynia, in 1805.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Where is his son, The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales, And his comrades, that daff the world aside, And bid it pass? VERNON.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Some of the birds in Pleasant Valley had long since left for the South.
— from The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker by Arthur Scott Bailey

With the aid of our two artificial concepts we are now able to formulate our introductory question thus: Is the prospective potency of each embryonic part fully given by its prospective value in a certain definite case; is it, so to say, identical with it, or does the prospective potency contain more than the prospective value of an element in a certain case reveals?
— from The Science and Philosophy of the Organism by Hans Driesch

What happens is, that the currents stealing along the telephone wire by induction produce vibrations in the diaphragm of that instrument, the little metal membrane working on the magnet in ready response to every current set up in the latter.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 730 December 22, 1877 by Various

Their bellies being full {83} of this beverage, it provokes vomiting, and they throw up as much as they like.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

Like a tender flower, planted in the fertile soil of woman's heart, it grows, expanding in its foliage, and imparting its fragrance to all around, till transplanted, and set to bloom in perpetual vigor and unfading beauty, in the Paradise of God.
— from Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Various

The boy, Tom Fisher, crossed Dick’s beat in plain view of him, uttering a peculiar cough as he passed, and disappeared behind the high piles of snow that had been thrown out of the path leading to the academy.
— from Don Gordon's Shooting-Box by Harry Castlemon

The body was at length thrown into the Tiber, and the generous creature, still unwilling that it should perish, leaped into the water after it, and clasping the corpse between its paws, vainly endeavoured to preserve it from sinking.
— from A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals by Percy J. Billinghurst