But if the force of custom, simple and separate, be great, the force of custom, copulate and conjoined and collegiate, is far greater; for there example teacheth, company comforteth, emulation quickeneth, glory raiseth; so as in such places the force of custom is in his exaltation.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

This curious passage is from the above-mentioned report, made to Congress by Messrs. Clarke and Cass in February, 1829.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

And all along their front was a line of chariots at considerable intervals from one another—the famous scythe-chariots, as they were named—having their scythes fitted to the axle-trees and stretching out slantwise, while others protruded under the chariot-seats, facing the ground, so as to cut through all they encountered.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

For behind any wish of theirs was power to enforce that wish, power that hurt, power that expressed itself in clouts and clubs, in flying stones and stinging lashes of whips.
— from White Fang by Jack London

An amalgam made of cadmium and copper is frequently used in dentistry, and an amalgam of zinc and tin is used for the rubbers of frictional electric machines.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Q.E.D. Corollary.—An emotion towards a thing, which we know not to exist in the present, and which we conceive as contingent, is far fainter, than if we conceive the thing to be present with us.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

At the end of every half-year he counted over the heap of coppers, and changed it for silver.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Won’t you ask aunty to come and cut it for me?”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

M. Buttafuoco, of one of the first families in the country, and captain in France, in the Royal Italians, wrote to me to that effect, and sent me several papers for which I had asked to make myself acquainted with the history of the nation and the state of the country.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The planes are of particular interest since they show clearly a change in form from those previously illustrated.
— from Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

There were shouts and calls and cries issuing from within the building.
— from The Go Ahead Boys and the Mysterious Old House by Ross Kay

The fifth demands two of the best shots to carry a cop in front of the green; there is, moreover, a chance of slicing into the river Hun.
— from The Golf Courses of the British Isles by Bernard Darwin

They crossed the paved courtyard and came in front of the window.
— from The Bondman: A New Saga by Caine, Hall, Sir

So after breaking into the store and eating my fill of Stubbs' crackers and cheese, I fixed my nest under the dirty old front counter and fell asleep.
— from Looking Back: An Autobiography by Merrick Abner Richardson

In one eclogue the poet mourns over the ruin and desolation of Rome, as a mother deserted of her children; another is a dialogue between two shepherds, in which St. Peter, under the pastoral disguise of Pamphilus, upbraids the licentious Clement VI with the ignoble servitude in which he is content to abide; a third shows us Clement wantoning with the shameless mistress of a line of pontifical shepherds, a figure allegorical of the corruption of the Church[ 25 ]; in yet a fourth Petrarch laments his estrangement from his patron Giovanni Colonna, a cardinal in favour at the papal court, whom it would appear his outspoken censures had offended.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

He probably saw that the dead body cumbered his companion, and committed it from a good humane motive to the sea, having removed the jewelry.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 4, October 1852 by Various

—Your committees have not failed to notice the single provision of section 64 of the bill which, "providing that all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with are hereby repealed," makes exception of section 4966, and in respect to that section provides that its provisions "are hereby confirmed and continued in force, anything contrary in this act notwithstanding.
— from Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906. by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents

He was going to business college, and choring it for near the whole town.
— from Peace in Friendship Village by Zona Gale

There was a time when all the Protestant churches in Europe were one, and lived on terms of brotherly intimacy; we sent ministers and professors to congregations and colleges in France, Germany, and Holland, and took ministers and professors from the Continent ourselves; the heart of the Church was enlarged towards brethren whom it has now completely forgotten.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles to the Thessalonians by James Denney