We sent for a doctor and chyrurgeon, but none to be found, till by-and-by by chance comes in Dr. Clerke, who is afeard of him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

One might have removed from Hampton all the buildings, class-rooms, teachers, and industries, and given the men and women there the opportunity of coming into daily contact with General Armstrong, and that alone would have been a liberal education.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Fresh from the degrading influences of the slave plantation and the coal-mines, it was a rare privilege for me to be permitted to come into direct contact with such a character as General Armstrong.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Those who come in direct contact with things and have to adapt their activities to them immediately are, in effect, realists; those who isolate the meanings of these things and put them in a religious or so-called spiritual world aloof from things are, in effect, idealists.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Feminine cruelty is directly connected with feminine anger and hatred.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

He felt, somehow, that he had bought the lovely day, too—got it chucked in dirt cheap with the house and ground.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Still, the more highly educated Malays, especially those who live in the towns and come into direct contact with Arab teachers of religion, are disposed to object strongly to these “relics of paganism”; and there can be no doubt that the increasing diffusion of general education in the Peninsula is contributing to the growth of a stricter conception of Islām, which will involve the gradual suppression of such of these old-world superstitions as are obviously of an “unorthodox” character.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The difficulty of this view is in regard to sensation, where it seems as if we came into direct contact with the outer world.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

For, though himself and boat’s crew remained untainted, and though his ship was half a rifle-shot off, and an incorruptible sea and air rolling and flowing between; yet conscientiously adhering to the timid quarantine of the land, he peremptorily refused to come into direct contact with the Pequod.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Entering the receiving apparatus and thus passing into the virator, the flow will come into direct contact with my body, into which it will discharge your spirit."
— from Zarlah the Martian by R. Norman (Robert Norman) Grisewood

[261] to the Canadians; and in the vast, unsettled regions of the far West our claims came into direct conflict with those of Mexico and of Great Britain.
— from Thomas Hart Benton by Theodore Roosevelt

Thus we find Secretary Cortelyou in daily conference with the Wall Street Group at this period; and after the Knickerbocker Trust Company closed its doors on the 22d of October and receivers had been appointed for the three Westinghouse firms on the 23d, Secretary Cortelyou deposited $25,000,000 in the New York banks indicated by the Group.
— from Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly

Children come in daily contact with all the inmates, even the imbeciles and feeble minded are to be found at the same dining table with them.
— from The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir

Orkhan never came into direct contact with the Karamanlis.
— from The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403) by Herbert Adams Gibbons

The head keeper is a person of great power in the prison, only third in importance of rank, but as he comes in daily contact with the convicts, his good or ill will is felt more keenly than the warden's.
— from A Modern Purgatory by Carlo de Fornaro

The foreign policy of a South African Confederation is perhaps the only point which might raise considerations affecting the international status of the members of the Confederation; and as to this, it must be remembered that neither the Orange Free State nor the Transvaal can come into direct contact with any foreign power except Portugal, because neither has any access to the sea, or touches (save on the eastern border of the Transvaal) any non-British territory.
— from Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

In proclaiming the equality of all men in this life, the Buddhists, as we have seen, came into direct collision with the orthodox creed of India, long carried out into practice in the institution of castes—a collision that was embittered by the abhorrence the Buddhists displayed for any distinction between the clergy and laity.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

The calyx is densely covered with silky hairs; and the small corolla varies in colour from pale yellow to red.
— from Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux

"People always declare as much, till typhoid fever breaks out; and then it is discovered that there is an abandoned cesspool in direct communication with one of the spare bedrooms, or a forgotten drainpipe under the drawing-room floor.
— from Mount Royal: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon