Men of experience in this profession have assured me that they often, when fatigued, take money, count it, sign a receipt and then—return the money to the person who brought it.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Thus the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced as it were to a single principle.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

“Come in, come in,” said Albert, rising and advancing to meet the young man.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

1 This is, I think, the best and most Philosophical Account that I have ever met with of Wit, which generally, though not always, consists in such a Resemblance and Congruity of Ideas as this Author mentions.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But it is very probable, that things may end thus, that ye may end thus, namely "comforted," as it is written, in spite of all self-discipline to earnestness and terror; metaphysically comforted, in short, as Romanticists are wont to end, as Christians....
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But in the Cytherean's breast new arts, new schemes revolve; if Cupid, changed in form and feature, may come in sweet Ascanius' room, and his gifts kindle the queen to madness and set her inmost sense aflame.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Alexandre’s explanation of the first is, “quum globi terraquei crassitudo interposita solis arcet radios;” and of the second, “quum nostra hujus globi pars a sole ambitur.”
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

This is, I think, the best and most philosophical account that I have ever met with of wit, which generally, though not always, consists in such a resemblance and congruity of ideas as this author mentions.
— from Essays and Tales by Joseph Addison

Very early in life Honora learned to dread the summer, when one by one the families of her friends departed until the city itself seemed a remote and distant place from what it had been in the spring and winter.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Complete by Winston Churchill

The growth of the tulip-tree, under favorable circumstances, is strong and rapid, and, when not crowded or shaded by older trees, it begins flowering when from eighteen to twenty-five years old.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various

From a bag in the buggy in which they had found the second man, wire-cutters were produced, and Jan's collar cut in sunder and removed, after a leather collar had been buckled on in its place and the chain attached to that.
— from Jan: A Dog and a Romance by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

91 CHAPTER III.—OF THE INFLUENCE OF MATERIAL AND METHOD WE have seen (1) that architectural considerations lie at the basis of design and control its general character, its scale, and relationships; and (2) that utility determines and specializes its particular forms and functions; now, as our third proposition, we may say that, in addition to these in limitation of material and methods of workmanship, we shall find the influences which determine primarily the purely artistic question of treatment in design, and which differentiate its classes and varieties.
— from The Bases of Design by Walter Crane

Though we may acknowledge that there is something medieval and chivalrous in such a relationship as this, an extraordinary confusion of ideas is none the less proved in the man who talks of a crusade and a pilgrimage.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 3. The Reaction in France by Georg Brandes

In the centre of the village the winter camp is seen, a rampart about 150 yards square, with the road cutting across the centre.
— from The Motor Routes of England: Western Section by Gordon Home