In these religions, one must in some fashion die to the natural life before one can enter into life eternal.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

During the years 1781 and 1782, he was almost constantly engaged in leading expeditions into the Cherokee country.
— from Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of It Never before Published by C. L. Hunter

“The law exacts the conviction wherever there is sufficient legal evidence to show the defendants’ guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and circumstantial evidence is legal evidence.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

Commenting on this, De Rousiers goes on: This is not to say that the discipline necessary to the pursuit of the common end is less exact than with us.
— from A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects by Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore) Bostwick

The cold enema is less effective as a cleansing agent, as it does not have the relaxing effect of the hot enema.
— from Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden

“I wonder,” she said to herself on her way home a few days later, “if I can endure it long enough after he returns to get entirely rid of that mortgage.
— from The Fate of Felix Brand by Florence Finch Kelly

The third compartment e is left empty to receive the tar and other liquid products.
— from A Practical Treatise on Gas-light Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas, with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of this new Branch of Civil Economy. by Friedrich Christian Accum

A spiral rising, slightly mammelate, the opening large, the edges notched, without channel; the columellar edge is lightly excavated and arranged in oblique folds.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

Labour, moreover, is much cheaper, even if less efficient, than abroad.
— from Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Vol. 2 (of 2) by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock