I thought them coarse eating, but some of the ship's company relished them very much.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

Of a truth, he had too long forgotten that he was 'young Swann' not to feel, when he assumed that part again for a moment, a keener pleasure than he was capable of feeling at other times—when, indeed, he was grown sick of pleasure; and if the friendliness of the middle-class people, for whom he had never been anything else than 'young Swann,' was less animated than that of the aristocrats (though more flattering, for all that, since in the middle-class mind friendship is inseparable from respect), no letter from a Royal Personage, offering him some princely entertainment, could ever be so attractive to Swann as the letter which asked him to be a witness, or merely to be present at a wedding in the family of some old friends of his parents; some of whom had 'kept up' with him, like my grandfather, who, the year before these events, had invited him to my mother's wedding, while others barely knew him by sight, but were, they thought, in duty bound to shew civility to the son, to the worthy successor of the late M. Swann.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

These trees and rocks are not situated at any point in the tribal territory, but, for the most part, they are grouped around the sanctuaries, called ertnatulunga by Spencer and Gillen and arknanaua by Strehlow, where the churinga of the clan is kept.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In consequence of such fictions, it came, in many cases, to depend altogether upon the parties, before what court they would choose to have their cause tried, and each court endeavoured, by superior dispatch and impartiality, to draw to itself as many causes as it could.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The facts of this remarkable intimacy can easily be stated.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

It has been already said that when a circumstantial detail of facts is impossible, the demonstrative power which is deficient may to a certain extent be supplied by the number of cases quoted; but this is a very dangerous method of getting out of the difficulty, and one which has been much abused.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

connu, e , bien su; clair; célèbre. conquérant, e , qui fait, ou a fait, de nombreuses conquêtes.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me: yond gull Malvolio is turned heathen, a very renegado; for there is no Christian, that means to be saved by believing rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

Now, there are ready-made categories established by society itself, and necessary to it because it is based on the division of labour.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

I cannot satisfy my conscience except by speaking, and speaking now.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

But this was cleverly explained by Sir Charles Lyell, who noticed, on one of his visits to America, that the water of the Mississippi, around the rank growths of cypress which form the "cypress swamps" at the mouths of that river, was highly charged with sediment, but that, having passed through the close undergrowth of the swamps, it issued in almost a pure state, the sediment which it bore having been filtered out of it and precipitated.
— from The Story of a Piece of Coal: What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes by Edward A. (Edward Alfred) Martin

The crown had eight branches, which supported a golden globe surmounted by a cross, each branch set with diamonds, four being in the shape of palm and four of myrtle leaves.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

She had come, it was plain enough, because she must, and she had come early, because, she too having lost a brother in the war, she was expected to be very sorry for me.
— from The Gates Ajar by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

She had it put up in her large room, where there was a close and wainscoted chimney-piece, and told me that I must come that night and sleep in that bed, and that she would expect me at midnight, but that I must not come earlier, because she had to arrange with her cook.
— from Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV by Frantz Funck-Brentano

Exch. i. 422), and a port so very considerable in 1332, that Edward Baliol and the confederated English barons sailed from hence to invade Scotland; and Henry IV., in 1399, made choice of this port to land at, to effect the deposal of Richard II.; yet the whole of this has long since been devoured by the merciless ocean; extensive sands, dry at low water, are to be seen in their stead."
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Since the dugout occupies an important position in the history of our country, every boy scout should know how it is made.
— from Boat-Building and Boating by Daniel Carter Beard

Huxley, Lay Sermons, 323— “ It is not absolutely proven that a group of animals having all the characters exhibited by species in nature has ever been originated by selection, whether artificial or natural ” ; Man's Place in Nature, 107— “ Our acceptance of the Darwinian hypothesis must be provisional, so long as one link in the chain of evidence is wanting; and so long as all the animals and plants certainly produced by selective breeding from a common stock are fertile with one another, that link will be wanting. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

But I suppose you hate to lose caste, even before such ragged specimens as your friends."
— from The Young Engineers in Mexico; Or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

"For the life of me, Harry, I can't make out what Miss Lloyd means," said Phil, in a low voice, as he made his Cliquot effervesce, by stirring it with a macaroon; "she was ready enough to love me as a friend, and all that sort of thing."
— from Under the Red Dragon: A Novel by James Grant