This is confirmed by legal experience which shows us, also, that the subjective half of a child’s story may be easily identified.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I never saw the statue again, which I the more regret, because on the great ball of stone representing the World whereon the figure stood, lines were drawn, that probably, had there been light enough, we should have discovered to be a map of the Universe as it was known to the people of Kôr.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The Spanish Guardship attack’d the Pyrate, but Rackam being close in behind a little Island, she could do but little Execution where she lay, therefore the Spaniard warps into the Channel that Evening, in order to make sure of her the next Morning.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

But little examination will show that the animals whose conduct it is difficult to generalize under the three primitive instinctive categories are gregarious.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

essed me, and there I did give her good advice and baiser la, elle weeping still.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But now I haste to bless Laertes' eyes With sight of his Ulysses ere he dies; The good old man, to wasting woes a prey, Weeps a sad life in solitude away.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

If she refused to perform her allotted task she would become a pauper—but a prostitute never; for a Socialist state, as will be later explained, would segregate paupers in farm colonies, where they would be compelled to support themselves, and would not leave them to demoralize their neighbors by profligacy and prostitution.
— from Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly

This includes the largest mains; of which, one of 73 rods was opened four feet wide at bottom of the trench, of which the channel capacity is 18 × 18 = 324 square inches, and others 110 rods of three and one-half and three feet width at bottom, all these mains being laid entirely with stone.
— from Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French

A young man, or it may be an old one, in love or not in love, has obtained possession by a contract duly recorded at the registration office in heaven and on the rolls of the nation, of a young girl with long hair, with black liquid eyes, with small feet, with dainty tapering fingers, with red lips, with teeth of ivory, finely formed, trembling with life, tempting and plump, white as a lily, loaded with the most charming wealth of beauty.
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Complete by Honoré de Balzac

Katharine made no comment, however, beyond lifted eyebrows when she noticed anything different from what she had been accustomed to in a house where there was a small family, and, in consequence, plenty of space.
— from Ethel Morton's Holidays by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

They, however, did not cease, and then she threw her girdle down to them, and as this also was to no use, her garters, and little by little everything which she had on that she could do without, until she had nothing left but her shift.
— from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Sir Walter Scott related the happy retort by Lord Elibank, who said, when he heard the definition—“Yes; and where else will you see such horses, and such men.”—Patron.
— from Literary Byways by William Andrews