Sixthly, by considering any part of infinite duration, as set out by periodical measures, we come by the idea of what we call TIME in general.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

In the absence of great parties, the United States abound with lesser controversies; and public opinion is divided into a thousand minute shades of difference upon questions of very little moment.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The mansion is of considerable antiquity, parts of it dating from the reign of Edward II., and others from Tudor times.
— from Somerset by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Wade

Remembering, with wits sharpened by distress, the effect of the drug in my little bottle, I drew out the cork, and making a sudden lunge, dashed the ether in its face—if you can so call any part of its disgusting head.
— from The Adventures of Prince Lazybones, and Other Stories by Helen Ashe Hays

As India is an immense region, a great continent, with every variety of scenery, with plains extending hundreds [Pg 40] of miles, and vast stretches of forests, with table-lands and lofty mountains, with land of every description from barren sand to the richest alluvial soil, the climate and products of its different countries are so different, that the statements made about one region, however correct, when applied to the whole are utterly misleading.
— from Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy

Here, too, in these hymns and poems, are specimens of the author's clearness and precision of intellectual discernment, and his argumentative acumen.
— from Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Maturin Murray Ballou

With his enduring love of the fantastic and ridiculous it was not long before he had successfully planned and executed a hoax of the most ridiculous character, a piece of idle drollery almost too foolish to think of, and yet which eventually succeeded in exciting the natives of at least four States and was telegraphed to and talked about in a Sunday feature way, by newspapers all over the country, and finally involved Peter as an actor and stage manager of the most vivid type imaginable.
— from Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser

Den soldiers comes and puts order in de section.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

The cycle of personal belief which the author traces comprises a process of illusion, disillusion, and reillusion.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

He cleared, fenced and cultivated a portion of it during two years and six months, before he was disturbed in his actual possession.
— from Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon by Frederick V. Holman