[128] the science of evidence—not of finding evidence but of rendering evidence evidential.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

If you're a member of the red-hot music-fan tribe, you do lots of everything that has to do with music, from singing in the shower to paying for black-market vinyl bootlegs of rare Eastern European covers of your favorite death-metal band.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

There is but one real example, Eeribœa, of a stepmother in Homer (Il.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

Life seemed to be flowing in its accustomed channels and with its wonted smoothness; but yet there was an under-current of excitement and unrest which surged through everything and kept every heart beating with expectancy, every ear alert to catch the first breath of rumour, every eye eagerly scanning the faces even of the passer-by in the street, lest haply he might be the bearer of those tidings which some of us longed and some of us feared to hear.
— from In Taunton town : a story of the rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth in 1685 by Evelyn Everett-Green

This they smeared over him with bits of rag: ears, eyes, nose, coming in for a plentiful share.
— from 'Tween Snow and Fire: A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford

In the paraphodia the posterior lobe is well developed, stout and conical, distally somewhat blunt or rounded, extended ectad or caudoectad and is always shorter than the setae.
— from Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 1919 by Various

Mainly because of robust exports, especially electronic goods, the economy grew 10.1% in 2000.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"Not a very creditable thing to boast of," replied Eustace, enraged at this reference to Lady Errington.
— from Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage by Fergus Hume

From the time he had poked a pistol against Sard's fat paunch, to this bullet-pelted ride for life, life had become one ridiculously exciting episode after another.
— from The Flaming Jewel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

We can fancy what view would have been taken of such a daring breach of royal etiquette, either at the Court of James I., or of Charles I., where lesser matrimonial crimes had received the punishment of life-long imprisonment.
— from Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Craik, Henry, Sir