The immanence of the physis or nature; her shaping is not merely external like that of a statuary, but involves the entire substance.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In retailing the product, cornucopias made of newspapers, or any other convenient wrapping, were first employed; but, with the introduction of paper bags in the early sixties, the housekeeper soon became educated to this more sanitary form of carry package, and its permanence was quickly assured.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It would require a pen powerful as the pencil of Salvator Rosa to paint the horrors which filled up the succeeding ten years, to which the author was an eye-witness, destined to follow in the train of rapine, and to view in the traces of Mahratta camps [39] the desolation 533 and political annihilation of all the central States of India, [40] several of which aided the British in their early struggle for dominion, but were now allowed to fall without a helping hand, the scapegoats of our successes.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

believe it, 'Twas either sent from Spain, or the archdukes: Spinola's whale, upon my life, my credit!
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

Yet far more astonishing is what I heard about this stone from my brother in the episcopate, Severus bishop of Milevis.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

that told of Bicce in the Eormenric story), is also integral.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

They had stood there some time in silence, looking at the widespread land of hills and valleys, upland meadows, warm and brown in the early spring sunshine, and sweeps of woodland, russet red with maple and ash, with here and there the dark sombre richness of laurel or pine.
— from Greenacre Girls by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

“Will he think I look better in that?” are the words written on that fair brow, in the eyes sparkling with hope, in the smile that flickers on the lips.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

He had made himself the leader in Ireland of the movement for Catholic Emancipation, and he had kindled an enthusiasm there which any English statesman of ordinary intelligence and foresight might easily have seen it would be impossible to extinguish so long as there was a struggle to be fought. {54} Canning had always been in favor of Catholic Emancipation.
— from A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

Although this rejection of ancient bibliographers began in the early seventeenth century, neither Labbé in 1664 nor Teissier in 1705 fully accepted it.
— from A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies by Archer Taylor

She is almost swept off her feet, but in the end she proves true blue.
— from Wunpost by Dane Coolidge

Lumpkin was very decided in his opinions, and open in their expression, yet there was none of that empoisoned bitterness in these expressions so characteristic of political aspirants in that day.
— from The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks