There will be nothing in the conceptual definitions even to suggest spatial form, size, or direction.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

In his procedures the criminalist does exactly the same thing.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Neque post Numidici exilium ac reditum quisquam aut expulsus invidiosius 20 aut receptus est laetius: cuius domus quam infeste a Clodio disiecta erat, tam speciose a senatu restituta est.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Even though one particular girl may be able to dress herself very smartly in homemade clothes of her own design and making, those same clothes duplicated eight times seldom turn out well.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Sharks of Dukutabuya, I press, I close down; Sharks of Kaduwaga, I press, I close down,” etc., the sharks of Muwa, Galeya, Bonari, and Kaulokoki being invoked in turn.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Men and women thronged the deck, thrilling with sympathy, and yet secretly hoping for a complete drama, even though someone must suffer.
— from In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson

If I paint them, under these artificial circumstances, I fail of course to present them in their habitual aspect; and my portrait, as a necessary consequence, disappoints everybody, the sitter always included.
— from After Dark by Wilkie Collins

For I can daily enjoy the sacrament in the mass, if I only keep before my eyes the testament, that is, the words and covenant of Christ, and feed and strengthen my faith thereby.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

Where, however, the firm is so large that probably the entire mail is carried from the post office in bags, or where a post office box is doubtless made use of instead of the carriers' delivery, even the street number is superfluous.
— from The Etiquette of To-day by Edith B. (Edith Bertha) Ordway

Yet already from early times we hear of the recognition of certain duties even to strangers and enemies.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

Next day I went to see Mr. Doxey himself, who is a Stevenson enthusiast, and has one window (the [Pg 52] window of the crowd) devoted entirely to Stevenson.
— from Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work by Various

If I consecrated all but my money to the Lord, I might fear, for it would not bring happiness with it, but God's grace can dim even the shining of gold to the Christian, so that neither the eye nor the heart may be held by it."
— from 'Our Guy' or, The elder brother by Boyd, E. E., Mrs.