How can he prove to me, for instance, that two right lines cannot have one common segment?
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The whole houseful of women caught hold of Constance, surrounded her and kissed her, and Rosa was especially demonstrative.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Here, too, comes his owner, cheerful, sombre, gracious or in the sulks, accordingly as his scheme of the now accomplished voyage has been realized in merchandise that will readily be turned to gold, or has buried him under a bulk of incommodities such as nobody will care to rid him of.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Lady St Julians had the first information of this important circumstance; it confirmed her original conviction: she determined to go on with her quadrille.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Our Country's Flag and the Flags of Foreign Countries Holden Our Country's Story Eva M. Tappan Houghton Mifflin Co.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

It was not needed: two other boys besides Arthur had already followed his example, and he went down to the great School with a glimmering of another lesson in his heart—the lesson that he who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world; and that other one which the old prophet learnt in the cave in Mount Horeb, when he hid his face, and the still, small voice asked, “What doest thou here, Elijah?” that however we may fancy ourselves alone on the side of good, the King and Lord of men is nowhere without His witnesses; for in every society, however seemingly corrupt and godless, there are those who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

To the south, near the river, there were a good many houses at Chelsea, that is to say south of King’s Road, and Chelsea Hospital of course stood as at present.
— from Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

At the latter place, the southwestern corner of Newfoundland, an ice-breaking steamer would carry him over Cabot Straits to North Sydney, and there he could get a [299] train which would make connections for New York.
— from Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Fullerton Leonard Waldo

And so she ate, and after that she felt sleepy, but she began to cut and went on half asleep cutting her own clothes, skirts, gown, and all, and when she at last woke up and found herself in rags, she said to herself, "Is this really I or not?
— from Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

A half turn from the clattering hubbub of Chatham Square and you are in Chinatown, slipping, within ten feet, through an invisible wall, from the glitter of the gin palace and the pawn-shop to the sinister shadows of irregular streets and blind alleys, where yellow men pad swiftly along greasy asphalt beneath windows glinting with ivory, bronze and lacquer; through which float the scents of aloes and of incense and all the subtle suggestion of the East.
— from Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Arthur Cheney Train

She will find it a hard job, but she has entered on the duty with great zeal and confident hopes of complete success.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

"Carry him off," commanded Seicht, and then walked on.
— from The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden

Captain Crowell Hatch of Cambridge, Samuel Brown, a trader of Boston, and John Marden Pintard of the New York firm of Lewis Pintard Company were also of the little coterie.
— from Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Agnes C. Laut

Various cabinets containing hundreds of chemicals stood about.
— from Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope by Victor Appleton