Here Mrs. Clemens enjoyed relief from social obligations, the children romped over the countryside, and Mark retired to his octagonal study, which, perched high on the hill, looked out upon the valley below.
— from 1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain

Necessity makes it usual for almost every man to be so, and custom everywhere regulates fashion.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Even in Central Europe, remote from the region now occupied by the Celts, a similar bisection of the year may be clearly traced in the great popularity, on the one hand, of May Day and its Eve (Walpurgis Night), and, on the other hand, of the Feast of All Souls at the beginning of November, which under a thin Christian cloak conceals an ancient pagan festival of the dead.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I said, “If I became your husband, I could easily refrain from touching you there.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

For here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive scepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it; while it remains in its full force and vigour.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

I can eat raw fish and ask no questions; and in a bird restaurant, Sunday for luncheon, I ate raw chicken wrapped in seaweed; abalone is my middle name, and some of the shell fish we eat is probably devil fish.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

Ash-barrels serve them as counters, and not infrequently does the arrival of the official cart en route for the dump cause a temporary suspension of trade until the barrels have been emptied and restored.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

should it cross thy dreams, So might it come, etc. return Footnote 6: Cf.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

And I said to myself, "What would her grandfather think if he could see this?" On a train running between London and Liverpool, a compartment especially reserved for women smokers has been provided.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

It is self-evident that reason, in cogitating the necessary complete determination of things, does not presuppose the existence of a being corresponding to its ideal, but merely the idea of the ideal—for the purpose of deducing from the unconditional totality of complete determination, The ideal is therefore the prototype of all things, which, as defective copies (ectypa), receive from it the material of their possibility, and approximate to it more or less, though it is impossible that they can ever attain to its perfection.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Six years later the Canada Eastern, running from Gibson to Loggieville, was purchased.
— from The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas) Skelton

By CHARLES E. RYAN, F.R.C.S.I., M.R.C.P.I. KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF LOUIS II, OF BAVARIA WITH PORTRAIT AND MAPS NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 153-157 FIFTH AVENUE 1896 [ii] ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS.
— from With an Ambulance During the Franco-German War Personal Experiences and Adventures with Both Armies, 1870-1871 by Charles Edward Ryan

The middle of the body of these churches is completely open; there are no pews, no distinction of places; the principal chapel is invariably at the opposite end from the chief entrance, recedes from the church, and is narrower; this part is appropriated to the officiating priests, and is railed in from the body of the church.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster

This they might do, without its creating in their minds the smallest desire to copy either Roman forms or Roman institutions.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

Great caravans en route for Khotan, Yarkand, and even Chinese Tibet arrived daily from Kashmir, the Panjab, and Afghanistan, and stacked their bales of goods in the place; the Lhassa traders opened shops in which the specialties were brick tea and instruments of worship; merchants from Amritsar, Cabul, Bokhara, and Yarkand, stately in costume and gait, thronged the bazaar and opened bales of costly goods in tantalising fashion; mules, asses, horses, and yaks kicked, squealed, and bellowed; the dissonance of bargaining tongues rose high; there were mendicant monks, Indian fakirs, Moslem dervishes, Mecca pilgrims, itinerant musicians, and Buddhist ballad howlers; bold-faced women with creels on their backs brought in lucerne; Ladakis, Baltis, and Lahulis tended the beasts, and the wazir's jemadar and gay spahis moved about among the throngs.
— from Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

They wanted a consolidated empire, ruled from London, rather than a loose federation of semi-independent states.
— from Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

There may be a great internal hemorrhage, accompanied with the ordinary constitutional effects resulting from loss of blood—as faintness, sickness, or vomiting, coldness of the extremities, rapid feeble pulse, hurried breathing; when there is little or no discharge from the vagina to excite alarm, or to point out the source of danger, when it is extreme.
— from The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed Being a Familiar and Practical Treatise, More Especially Intended for the Instruction of Females Themselves, but Adapted Also for Popular Use among Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Frederick Hollick

It was one of those radiant days, harmonizing best with tranquil or joyous moods, when, if we are disconsolate, nature seems to mock our misery, and callous earth rejoices forgetful of storms, making us wonder with a deeper discontent why we, too, cannot forget.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

The native regiments were often distributed in detachments at different stations; and it frequently happened—as just adverted to—for reasons wholly inexplicable to the authorities, that some of those component elements remained faithful long after others had mutinied.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd