To them, therefore, with a suitable degree of caution, I began to disclose my sentiments and plans; sounding them, the while on the subject of running away, provided a good chance should offer.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

How can influence be exercised over this fearful unknown, how can this domain of freedom be brought under subjection?
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All the coffee is brought into the city of Harar, whence it is sent on mule-back to Dire-Daoua on the Franco-Ethiopian Railway, and from there by rail to Jibuti.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I would, however, have his first estimates tested by measurement, so that he may correct his errors, and if there is a false impression left upon the senses he may correct it by a better judgment.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My father, the Comte de Morcerf, although of Spanish origin, possesses considerable influence, both at the court of France and Madrid, and I unhesitatingly place the best services of myself, and all to whom my life is dear, at your disposal.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

A majority in a single assembly, when it has assumed a permanent character—when composed of the same persons habitually acting together, and always assured of victory in their own House—easily becomes despotic and overweening if released from the necessity of considering whether its acts will be concurred in by another constituted authority.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

“There’s nothing official about them,” said the Chief Inspector bitterly.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

It is argument sufficient they were written after the captivity in Babylon, that the History of them is continued till that time.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

We have seen people in the country in the summer time trampling down the daisies and the beautiful violets, the lovely wild flowers in their efforts to get a branch of showy flowers off a large tree, which, perhaps, would not compare in beauty and delicacy and loveliness to the things they trampled under their feet in trying to procure it.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The row continued: I became quite excited myself, and joined in the mêlée by beating on the table with a heavy ruler and shouting out: "Shut up!
— from Sun, Sand and Somals Leaves from the note-book of a District Commissioner in British Somaliland by Henry A. Rayne

Theodore's general way is to make a list of what she thinks necessary, allowing her customer to correct it; but I should not have been satisfied with that, even from Theodore, though I admit that her taste is perfect.
— from Vixen, Volume II. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

These structures are severally infundibuliform processes, so fashioned by the original descent of the testicle; and, therefore, as the bowel follows the track of the testicle, it becomes, of course, invested by the selfsame parts in the selfsame manner.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The few boats that come into Blankington-on-Sea are only small coasters and they are very carefully scrutinised; and as for flash signals, I am out on the marshes nearly every night, the foreshore is patrolled by sentries, and nothing of the sort has ever been hinted at."
— from The Secret Service Submarine: A Story of the Present War by Guy Thorne

`Nevertheless, this enormous advantage, a very real one so far as society is concerned, is by no means realized in a like proportion by the carrier, who, while he adds four hundred per cent.
— from System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

Call it by what you will—syndicate, Mafia.
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Could it be—?
— from Flamsted quarries by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

But without attempting to list man's supposed natural "instincts" we must assume that civilization is built up on his original propensities and impulses, whatever they may be.
— from The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson

These series of fins are generally curved longitudinally, although they are sometimes straight, and give an arched [425] form to the roof of the mouth.—They are covered immediately by the lips attached to the lower jaw, and enclose the tongue between their lower extremities.
— from The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 11 (1820) by Various