In this case our fear, if we still choose to call it so, would be lest our cravings should remain unsatisfied, or rather fear has given place to need; we recognise our dependence on external powers not because they threaten but because they forsake us.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Children become servants, and servants, being adopted and brought up in the family, become like other children and supply the family's growing wants.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

What passes in those remote depths—what beings live, or can live, twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the waters—what is the organisation of these animals, we can scarcely conjecture.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Every reader who will arrest himself at any moment and say, "How came I to be thinking of just this?" will be sure to trace a train of representations linked together by lines of contiguity and points of interest inextricably combined.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

One night the little girl was lost, and only after looking for her in the Hebdomadal Boardroom, in the Sheldonian, the Pusaeum, and all the barges, did we find that unprincipled old man amusing her by letting off crackers and Roman-candles among the Mexican MSS.
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock

It is not surprising that the letters of her friends during these past months should speak of "the pale, sad face, so worn by lines of care and toil," but now all was over
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The rooms were shut up, the lodgers almost all gone, scarcely any family but of the residents left; and, as there is nothing to admire in the buildings themselves, the remarkable situation of the town, the principal street almost hurrying into the water, the walk to the Cobb, skirting round the pleasant little bay, which, in the season, is animated with bathing machines and company; the Cobb itself, its old wonders and new improvements, with the very beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to the east of the town, are what the stranger's eye will seek; and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

They hope to escape death by leaving one camping ground for another.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

There was in this church of old time a fraternity, or brotherhood, of Our Blessed Lady, or Corpus Christi, and St. Giles, founded by John Belancer, in the reign of Edward III., the 35th year of his reign.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Do you speak Christian, said Epistemon, or the buffoon language, otherwise called Patelinois?
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Mr. Genet, however, assumes a new and bolder line of conduct.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

But it was impossible to look on this lonely spot without recalling to mind the beautiful lines of Cowper— “O Solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?”
— from Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat

Philemon Henry called his babe little one, child, [Pg 23] and daughter, and the mother was too wise to flaunt the name in his face.
— from A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda M. Douglas

In most of them can clearly be seen, in the midst of their fatigue and distress, great relief at having been let off comparatively easily.
— from Letters of a Soldier, 1914-1915 by Eugène Emmanuel Lemercier

They are what is called good Catholics ; but, like our Charles the Second, they never let their religious bigotry interfere with their political well-doing.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A bare ledge of coral first appears, just at the surface; it arrests floating substances, weeds, trees, etcetera; soon the sea-birds begin to resort there; by the decay of vegetable and animal matter a thin soil gradually covers the foundation of coral; a cocoa-nut is drifted upon it by the winds, or the currents of the sea; it takes root, springs up, its fruit ripens and falls, and in a few years the whole new-formed island is covered with waving groves.”
— from The Island Home by Richard Archer

We want a big lot of canned stuff, vegetables, and bully beef.
— from The Pearl Fishers by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Dry clay is different from wet clay, it is hard, not sticky and not slippery, but it at once becomes like ordinary clay when water is added.
— from Lessons on Soil by Russell, Edward J. (Edward John), Sir

Pg 21] us the Beauty of the World, that we can regain our birthright only by leaving our cloud-palaces of the brain, and becoming consciously at one with the cosmic life of which, merely as men, we are no more than a perpetual phosphorescence?
— from The Washer of the Ford: Legendary moralities and barbaric tales by William Sharp