An abjectness of character, likewise, is disgustful and contemptible in another view.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

He never transcends the conventional limits in dealing, as he so rarely does, with sex.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

As the consciousness of being well dressed tends to grace and ease of manner, so shabby, ill-fitting, or soiled attire makes one feel awkward and constrained, lacking in dignity and importance.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

It forms compounds with certain colouring matters, which causes it to be employed in the preparation of the colours called lakes in dyeing and calico-printing.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The Station Master concealed himself in the shadow of a brake-van that had a little tin chimney and was labelled:— G. N. and S. R. 34576 Return at once to White Heather Sidings and in this concealment he lurked till the small thing on the top of the heap ceased to scrabble and rattle, came to the edge of the heap, cautiously let itself down, and lifted something after it.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Schmorl produced comparable lesions in dogs and came to the conclusion that the disorder was one “very similar” to scurvy but not identical with it, the essential difference being that in all animals there was a most marked absorption of bone by osteoclasts.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

This question is discussed at considerable length in Dr. Arnold's History of Rome, ch. xxiii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

As shoemakers do when they bring home shoes, still cry leather is dearer and dearer, may I justly say of those melancholy symptoms: these of despair are most violent, tragical, and grievous, far beyond the rest, not to be expressed but negatively, as it is privation of all happiness, not to be endured; for a wounded spirit who can bear it?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“To change love into duty, and pleasure into a bore.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

And the sweet song of angels passed away, And, with a dream's alacrity of change, The priest, and the swart fisher by his side, Beheld the Eternal City lift its domes And solemn fanes and monumental pomp Above the waste Campagna.
— from Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform, Complete Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

Palestinians have elected a president who recognizes that confronting terror is essential to achieving a state where his people can live in dignity and at peace with Israel.
— from State of the Union Addresses by George W. (George Walker) Bush

45 The correction lies in directing an impulse of relaxation to it.
— from The Head Voice and Other Problems: Practical Talks on Singing by D. A. (David Alva) Clippinger

But the charm lay in distinction, aloofness from common ways of thinking and speaking, a wide outlook on events and movements in the Church, and a fiery enthusiasm all the more telling because sedulously restrained.
— from Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell

I cannot lay it down as for any other man.
— from Miracles of Our Lord by George MacDonald

eir shield and sword, and they laid its principles at the foundation of all their institutions, civil, literary, in dustrial, and ecclesiastic.
— from The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America From Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

She scarcely has outgrown her ancient walls, her civic life is dead, and in her virtual isolation from the modern world she lives a dreary, quiet old age.
— from Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 by Elise Whitlock Rose