We should take a lesson from nature, who when she planned the human frame did not set our grosser parts, or the ducts for purging the body, in our face, but as far as she could concealed them, “diverting,” as Xenophon says, “those canals as far as possible from our senses,” 98 and thus shunning 82 in any part to mar the beauty of the whole creature.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

A disc of stout cardboard is put inside the case after you have gathered up the one end; you then stuff the case as full as possible with bran, sawdust or horsehair, lay a second disc of cardboard in at the top and draw up the other end.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

He strictly respected the rights of the Moors, and sought to win them over by force of example, by uniform justice and kindness, and by conforming as far as possible to their ways.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

[1] M. Pedro Gailhard has himself told me that he created a few additional posts as door-shutters for old stage-carpenters whom he was unwilling to dismiss from the service of the Opera.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The king, who was fond of appearing a zealous promoter of the Catholic faith, took her under his protection, and complimented her with a pension of fifteen hundred livres of Piedmont, which was a considerable appointment for a prince who never had the character of being generous; but finding his liberality made some conjecture he had an affection for the lady, he sent her to Annecy escorted by a detachment of his guards, where, under the direction of Michael Gabriel de Bernex, titular bishop of Geneva, she abjured her former religion at the Convent of the Visitation.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Near to the entrance of the cave both pictures and writings were worn away, but further in they were in many cases absolutely fresh and perfect as the day on which the sculptor had ceased work on them.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

In 1908, the Porto Rico coffee planters, presented a memorial to the Congress asking for a protective tariff of six cents a pound on all foreign coffees.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Reibmayr has collected from human history a wealth of illustrations of various forms of isolation, and there seems much to be said for his thesis that the establishment of a successful race or stock requires the alternation of periods of inbreeding (endogamy) in which characters are fixed, and periods of outbreeding (exogamy) in which, by the introduction of fresh blood, new variations are promoted.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Of course, apart from all precipitate hopes and faulty applications [Pg 13] to matters specially modern, with which I then spoiled my first book, the great Dionysian note of interrogation, as set down therein, continues standing on and on, even with reference to music: how must we conceive of a music, which is no longer of Romantic origin, like the German; but of Dionysian ?...
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

They ran the craft alongside the landing of a native [Pg 300] village in another hour or two, crawled out of her very stiffly, and were told by the headman that two negroes had come ashore from a passing craft to purchase food a little earlier, while a white man lay still in her bottom.
— from The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss

Along a given section of the front, or rather just behind it, the guns were placed singly or in pairs, widely scattered, some close to the line and some well back from it, all concealed as far as possible from enemy aviators.
— from Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller

We had it all fixed, that you'd come and find a prairie knight that was ready to fight for you, and he'd make you like him, whether you wanted to or not; and then he'd keep you here, and we'd all be happy ever after.
— from Her Prairie Knight by B. M. Bower

There also is the Cainochorion, (New Castle,) as it is called, a fortified and precipitous rock, distant from Cabeira less than 200 stadia.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Talma, the celebrated actor, fought a pistol duel with an actor named Naudet, in which neither was injured; and about the same {351} time shots were exchanged between two members of the National Assembly, Barnave and Cazalès.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

With this higher growth of individual consciousness, and forming a part of it, comes the commensurate growth of social consciousness.
— from Women and Economics A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Neither of them saw the rowboat till it was quite close, and Florence and Puppums howled together in greeting.
— from Winona of the Camp Fire by Margaret Widdemer

“That loose shutter upstairs come around in the wind with a bang and Buck Daniels comes out of his chair as fast as powder could blow him.
— from The Seventh Man by Max Brand

He was squandering his cash as fast as possible and did not mean to go to bed till he had rid himself of the hundred and fifteen francs.
— from The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola