Burnes says that at Kunduz both natives and foreigners spoke rapturously of the vales of Badakhshan, its rivulets, romantic scenes and glens, its fruits, flowers, and nightingales.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

A verbal sign ( a ) selects, detaches, a meaning from what is otherwise a vague flux and blur (see p. 121); ( b ) it retains, registers, stores that meaning; and ( c ) applies it, when needed, to the comprehension of other things.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

I could understand that; you never know what kind of diseases can be picked up in different times, because I remember reading somewhere that germs keep changing according to conditions.
— from The Old Die Rich by H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold

In our days, be it remarked, religious sentiment has found defenders among those who, like Renan, Taine, and so many others, are most firmly convinced of the absurdities of the dogmas themselves.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

Because, if Richard R. Smith was not of right sheriff of the county at the time he received and forwarded the ballots, he was then sheriff in fact of that county; and all the acts of such an officer which tend to the public utility, or to preserve and render effectual the rights of third persons, are valid in law.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

Then there was a bugle-call, and the evolutions began in regular review style, with plenty of fancy additions, such as had been planned to impress the great gathering of the Malay people.
— from Trapped by Malays: A Tale of Bayonet and Kris by George Manville Fenn

Antonyms: broken, inclined, rolling, rugged, sloping, hilly, irregular, rough, slanting, uneven. HUMANE.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

Because, if Richard R. Smith, at the time he received and forwarded the ballots, was not sheriff, the county was without a sheriff, a position too mischievous to be established by a doubtful construction of law.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

The baboons in return rolled so many stones down the mountain, some as large as a man's head, that the attackers had to beat a hasty retreat; and the pass was actually closed for a time against the caravan.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

“But is reform really so impossible as you describe it?
— from Democracy, an American novel by Henry Adams

From short replies at first, Mat was gradually beguiled into really relating some of his adventures.
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins