As he feared the outer conditions might not have been as favorable this time as the first, he waited a few days and got conditions as near as possible identical.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Kwa′lĭ, Kwalûñ′yĭ—Qualla or Quallatown, the former agency for the East Cherokee and now a postoffice station, just outside the reservation, on a branch of Soco creek, in Jackson county, North Carolina.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

His religion knew no race, no sex, no caste, and no aristocratic priesthood.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

she said, because to call a native a pig is the worst insult of all.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

After some minutes the Crowd formed itself into a Circle; And now Antonia perceived in the midst of it a Woman of extraordinary height, who whirled herself repeatedly round and round, using all sorts of extravagant gestures.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

While the civil and military professions were separated by the policy of Constantine, a new and perpetual order of ecclesiastical ministers, always respectable, sometimes dangerous, was established in the church and state.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Anderson the circular temple at tivoli the maison carrée at nîmes, a pseudo-peripteral temple temple at tivoli plan of the temple of vesta at rome 2.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

H2 anchor CHAPTER VIII——OF IDLENESS As we see some grounds that have long lain idle and untilled, when grown rich and fertile by rest, to abound with and spend their virtue in the product of innumerable sorts of weeds and wild herbs that are unprofitable, and that to make them perform their true office, we are to cultivate and prepare them for such seeds as are proper for our service; and as we see women that, without knowledge of man, do sometimes of themselves bring forth inanimate and formless lumps of flesh, but that to cause a natural and perfect generation they are to be husbanded with another kind of seed: even so it is with minds, which if not applied to some certain study that may fix and restrain them, run into a thousand extravagances, eternally roving here and there in the vague expanse of the imagination— “Sicut aqua tremulum labris ubi lumen ahenis, Sole repercussum, aut radiantis imagine lunae, Omnia pervolitat late loca; jamque sub auras Erigitur, summique ferit laquearia tecti.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Tuju (not tujoh , 179 ) lobang , which appears to be identifiable with “ Koba ,” and which is played [ 503 ] by throwing coins as near as possible to a hole (or holes?) in the ground.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The democracy, at least of this country, are not at present jealous of personal superiority, but they are naturally and must justly so of that which is grounded on mere pecuniary circumstances.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Why, sir, we have a criminal code, and laws punishing larceny and murder and arson and robbery and all these crimes; and yet murder is committed, larcenies and robberies are committed, and the culprits are not always punished and brought to justice.
— from The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

France may be considered as neither at peace nor war.
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 5 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

In the captain's cabin, where the presence of the governor, our passenger, still kept up the strait-laced etiquette of the service, coats and epaulettes appeared at dinner; but in the gun-room, the officers, the instant they came below, slipped on their light white jackets, and, disdaining waistcoat, seized their flutes and books, and drew their chairs as near as possible to the mouth of the windsail.
— from The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Basil Hall

The Canada and Newfoundland are pretty badly mauled, and I've got half a dozen Frenchmen that would be all the better for a look over.
— from The World Peril of 1910 by George Chetwynd Griffith

I satisfied myself that it was a cab and not a private carriage by the narrow gauge of the wheels.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

—Our conceptions are not always possibilities.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven

"It is church decoration of course, and not a 'piece,' as we say, but I would like to see anybody do better.
— from Marzio's Crucifix, and Zoroaster by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

At this moment, when all minds are occupied in endeavoring to discover the most economical means of transportation; when, to put these means into practice, we are levelling roads, improving rivers, perfecting steamboats, establishing railroads, and attempting various systems of traction, atmospheric, hydraulic, pneumatic, electric, &c.; at this moment, when, I believe, every one is seeking in sincerity and with ardor the solution of this problem—" To bring the price of things in their place of consumption, as near as possible to their price in that of production "—I would believe myself to be acting a culpable part towards my country, towards the age in which I live, and towards myself, if I were longer to keep secret the wonderful discovery which I have just made.
— from What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader by Frédéric Bastiat

I should think the minister or church had no right to debar such a professor, though he should say he did not think himself converted; for I call that a profession of godliness, which is a profession of the great things wherein godliness consists, and not a profession of his own opinion of his good estate.”
— from Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards