From the imperfect means Franz had of judging, he could only come to one conclusion,—that the person whom he was thus watching certainly belonged to no inferior station of life.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

One is the increasingly reminiscent and borrowed character of culture; the other is the political and rhetorical bent of Roman life.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

In the region of the Mené, canton of Collinée, the old folk say that, after the angels revolted, those left in paradise were divided into two parts: those who fought on the side of God and those who remained neutral.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Once arrived at this conclusion inductively, we can of course, test our conclusions by direct questions, or by a leading question, for the matter of that.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Hence the cries of children; they often cry; it must be so.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Finally, in love, and during a period which, in southern countries, often comprises twelve or fifteen years, and those the fairest of our life, our happiness is entirely in the hands of the woman we love.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Nor did any dispute arise as to this, but as Homer said, 551 and correctly, no doubt instructed by the Muses themselves, every god has his seat on which it is irrevocably ordained that he shall sit, firmly and immovably fixed; and though they rise on the entrance of their father they never confound or change the order of their seats or infringe on one another's, since every one knows his appointed place.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Five minutes later the officers appeared; nine in number—two captains of cavalry, two of infantry, two lieutenants, and two alferez or second lieutenants, and a captain, lieutenant, and alferez of artillery.
— from The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

The natural sciences and the empirical concepts which compose them appear therefore like a tachygraphic transcription upon living and mutable reality, capable of complete transcription only in terms of individual representations.
— from Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept by Benedetto Croce

In these crises one cannot think of everything.
— from Psmith, Journalist by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The passing of the Puritan sabbath has conferred benefits also on those who are entirely out of sympathy with the new order of things, and who still patronize the institution of public worship to the extent of attending church or chapel twice or even thrice on Sunday.
— from Bohemian Days in Fleet Street by William Mackay

The mechanical significance of the raised powers of the concentrations of components, two or more molecules of which take part in a reaction as indicated, will be discussed further on, in connection with a case of equilibrium between an electrolyte and its ions (Chapter VI, p. 102 ).
— from The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. With Special Consideration of the Application of the Laws of Equilibrium and of the Modern Theories of Solution. by Julius Stieglitz

George Canning, the English statesman to whom belonged much of the credit for the Constitution of Cadiz, thought out a way to punish the Spanish king for his perfidy.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

"Small as would have been our chance of carrying through our part of the programme successfully, the Gneisenau was the one opponent I desired above all the others, on account of the way I knew it would buck up the ship's company to feel that they were having a whack at the ship that sunk the Monmouth .
— from Stories of the Ships by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

It is composed of a cylinder of cardboard, turning on a central axis.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

If we sent for a fly we could only catch the one o’clock train; if we walk over to the station we can catch that at eleven.
— from The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn