Add to this, that I met with the celebrated traveller, Mr. Murthwaite, the day afterwards, and that I held a conversation with him on the subject of the Moonstone, which has a very important bearing on later events.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

It is the same case with all those pretended syllogistical reasonings, which may be found in every other branch of learning, except the sciences of quantity and number; and these may safely, I think, be pronounced the only proper objects of knowledge and demonstration.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

“‘And where is the dear boy, our little Edmond?’ “‘Why, with his father, no doubt,’ replied Danglars.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I now take my leave of this butifull extensive vally which I call the hot spring Vally, and behold one less extensive and much more rugid on Willards Creek for near 12 miles in length.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

This class of women is consigned by our laws entirely to the discretion of the police.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

wīf l. take a wife, marry : (±) produce, bring forth : pass, lead ( life ), BH, Met : to mark or beat the bounds of land , EC 155: perform, do , An : place, lay , Æ: sprout forth, grow, spread .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

When this diversity between the rewards and punishments which distinguish the righteous from the wicked shall appear under that Sun of righteousness in the brightness of life eternal,—a diversity which is not discerned under this
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Alwyn, beholding the mournful desolation of the scene, felt a strong sense of disappointment,—he had expected something different,—his imagination had pictured these historical ruins as being of larger extent and more imposing character.
— from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli

At the spark ball or lower end we have little or no variation of potential or electron pressure, but we have electrons rushing into and out of the aerial at each half oscillation, forming the electric discharge or current.
— from Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, J. A. (John Ambrose), Sir

A woman's manly-purposed, hoping heart; 10 And when I keep my bed of little ease, Drenched with the dew, unvisited by dreams, (For fear, instead of sleep, my comrade is, So that in sound sleep ne'er I close mine eyes,)
— from Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments by Aeschylus

Her French was of that mixed creole sort, a blending of linguistic elegance and patois, impossible to imitate.
— from Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

Now I am surrounded by Rees and Gros Ventres, I feel the barrier of language exceedingly.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 1, January, 1887 by Various

The proportions of the common minerals in the outer ten miles of the lithosphere are in round numbers as follows: PERCENTAGE OF COMMON MINERALS IN LITHOSPHERE Feldspar 49 Quartz 21 Augite, hornblende, and olivine 15 Mica 8 Magnetite 3 Titanite and ilmenite 1 Kaolin, limonite, hematite, dolomite, calcite, chlorite, etc. 3 100 In making up this table it is assumed that the rocks to a depth of ten miles are about 95 per cent of igneous type, that is, crystallized from molten magma, and about 5 per cent of sedimentary type, that is, formed from the weathering and erosion of igneous rocks or preëxisting sediments, and deposited in beds or layers, either by water or by air (see pp. 16-17).
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

Blackstone says: "By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband.
— from Men, Women, and Gods; and Other Lectures by Helen H. (Helen Hamilton) Gardener

Mr. Abercromby supposes the sky god to be of later evolution, and to be worshipped after man had exhausted "the helpers that seemed nearest at hand... in the trees and waters at his very door".
— from Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

He'd go into public-'ouses with 'em, but he wouldn't drink; leastways, that is to say, he wouldn't drink beer, and Ginger used to say that it made 'im feel uncomfortable to see Bill put away a bottle o' lemonade every time they 'ad a drink.
— from Odd Craft, Complete by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs