A race of such resentful men will of necessity eventually prove more prudent than any aristocratic race, it will honour prudence on quite a distinct scale, as, in fact, a paramount condition of existence, while prudence among aristocratic men is apt to be tinged with a delicate flavour of luxury and refinement; so among them it plays nothing like so integral a part as that complete certainty of function of the governing unconscious instincts, or as indeed a certain lack of prudence, such as a vehement and valiant charge, whether against danger or the enemy, or as those ecstatic bursts of rage, love, reverence, gratitude, by which at all times noble souls have recognised each other.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

That he was naturally of a very wan and pallid aspect, however, his hollow cheeks, sharp features, and sunken eyes, no less than a certain look of patient endurance, sufficiently testified.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The complete list of personal endings of the active voice is as follows: Singular Plural 1st Pers.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

In view of the causal definition of the difference between images and sensations, this brings us to a new question, namely: Are the causal laws of psychology different from those of any other science, or are they really physiological?
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The cheapness of every kind of literature, the facilities of our well stored circulating libraries, our public reading rooms, and numerous excellent lectures on every possible subject, leave no excuse to poor or rich for an ignorance of any of the topics discussed in {19} intellectual society.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

A rude, rough, and most singular compromise was made, and a mixture of Gipsey, Old English, newly-coined words, and cribbings from any foreign, and therefore secret language, mixed and jumbled together, formed what has ever since been known as the CANTING LANGUAGE , or PEDLER’S FRENCH ; or, during the past century, ST. GILES’ GREEK .
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

But with a certain lack of practical sense which has always been my bane, I had made it a mile or more from the sea; and before I had dragged it down to the beach the thing had fallen to pieces.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

P. 4, l. 40, She hath a blade made keen, &c.]—These lines (40, 41) are repeated in a different context later on, p. 23, ll. 379, 380.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

C. L. of P. Debates: References.
— from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

They didn't used to; it used to be that only cranks like old Phil Ward even talked of such things, and people laughed at them; and now prosecuting attorneys actually do these things, and people reelect them.
— from A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White

Says Cooley: “Like other phases of organization, government is merely one way of doing things, fitted by its character for doing some things, and unfitted for doing others.”
— from Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince

Mrs. De Morgan speaks in a similar strain: "Crystal-vision is a well attested fact, having its laws and conditions like other phenomena in this world of known and hidden causes, and a little careful observation may clear away some of that obscurity which has kept it as the property of witches and sorcerers.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

Measurements made on each specimen examined in the field were: length of carapace, width of carapace, length of plastron (sum of lengths of forelobe and hind lobe), width of plastron (at hinge), and height.
— from Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler

Without their too brilliant light it suffered a complete loss of personality.
— from The Rest Hollow Mystery by Rebecca N. (Rebecca Newman) Porter

The men were dressed in black coats, like our paletôts, embroidered with red woollen cord; a red band with a tassel hung down from the large black hat; with dark knee breeches, and blue stockings, with red leather gaiters—in short, there was a dazzling richness of colour, and that, too, on a bright sunny morning in the forest road.
— from Pictures of Sweden by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Galeazzo Gataro, who in the Dictionary of Learned Men is named De Gataris, and who died of the plague in 1405, says in his History of Padua, which was afterwards improved and published by his son Andrew, that Francesco da Carraro, lord of Padua, came to Rome in the year 1368, and finding no chimneys in the hotel where he lodged, because at that time fire was kindled in a hole in the middle of the floor, he caused two chimneys, like those which had been long used at Padua, to be constructed, and arched by masons and carpenters whom he had brought along with him.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann