But faith, which after all is something compound, comprising a cognitive, logical, or rational element together with an affective, biotic, sentimental, and strictly irrational element, is presented to us under the form of knowledge.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

We buy bread baked in loaves from a pain de santé store, which is conveniently located on rue Ernest Cresson.
— from Over Periscope Pond Letters from Two American Girls in Paris October 1916-January 1918 by Esther Sayles Root

His captor laughed, or rather emitted a low rumble.
— from The Young Train Master by Burton Egbert Stevenson

[Pg 495] WEATHERFORD, THE “RED EAGLE” The most picturesque figure among the Indian leaders of the Alabama tribes, was William Weatherford, called by the Creeks, of whom he was the splendid commander, Lamochattee, or Red Eagle.
— from Makers and Romance of Alabama History by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley

—At the origin of societies morals and the action of justice are indistinguishable, public opinion constitutes “common law,” often respected even by the legislations of the civilised.
— from The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker

We only keep together the ideas and pictures that remain to us from our past lives by means of the association of these ideas, that is to say, by the aid of the peculiar power they have, in virtue of certain laws, of recalling each other.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes

Thus we find on a working-class circuit like Oldham, Rochdale, etc., there will be over six hundred orders made, whereas in Whitechapel only two orders are made in the same year.
— from The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir