These questions of conversion are not especially difficult, but when it must be explained to what such qualities as very exquisite egoism, declared envy, abnormal desire for honor, exaggerated conceit, and great idleness may lead to, the problem requires great caution and intensive study.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The leaves of that year had withered before my work drew near to a close; and now every day showed me more plainly how well I had succeeded.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his vicars-general.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And fear seized Aeson's son, but not even so did he turn round as his feet bore him forth, till he came back to his comrades; and now early dawn arose and shed her light above snowy Caucasus. (ll. 1225-1245)
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

It is known that in inferior societies, death is never considered a natural event, due to the action of purely physical causes; it is generally attributed to the evil workings of some sorcerer.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The steps by which repression takes place in the simpler cases are not especially difficult to understand.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Even if we suppose a man so packed with healthy-mindedness as never to have experienced in his own person any of these sobering intervals, still, if he is a reflecting being, he must generalize and class his own lot with that of others; and, doing so, he must see that his escape is just a lucky chance and no essential difference.
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

The last two classes are not easily distinguished; but the additions which introduce the Levitical system into earlier history are clearly the work of the chronicler or his immediate predecessor, if such a predecessor be assumed, or were found in somewhat late sources.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Books of Chronicles by W. H. (William Henry) Bennett

This variety of country, although not entirely destitute of hills, is almost throughout its whole extent possessed of an undulating or rolling surface, rising into broad and gentle swells in some parts, and subsiding into extensive flats or plains in others.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 4 by Thomas Say

Although she would not condescend to look around, Miss Briskett divined that behind the curtains of the neighbouring houses the occupants were looking on with admiring curiosity, and noting every detail of the girl’s attire.
— from Flaming June by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

The boat was in the middle of the current, at nearly equal distances from either shore, and being carried down at the rate of two versts an hour, when Michael, springing to his feet, bent his gaze up the river.
— from Michael Strogoff; Or, The Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne

The story of his heroic struggle and death aroused lovers of liberty all over the country, and newspapers everywhere denounced the acts of the mob at Alton.
— from Historic Adventures: Tales from American History by Rupert Sargent Holland

The corsairs burst into a loud roar of laughter and pressed closer to the ship, whose defenders, terrified by the sight of the fierce, laughing faces, discharged their guns without taking correct aim, not even doing the rigging of the Sea Devil the slightest damage.
— from The Corsair King by Mór Jókai

There were innumerable errands to the city, and nearly every day the big car went down and returned laden with materials for the work.
— from Patty and Azalea by Carolyn Wells

Causes are not easily determined, but they exist and function.
— from A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock