All the evil the saloon does in breeding poverty and in corrupting politics; all the suffering it brings into the lives of its thousands of innocent victims, the wives and children of drunkards it sends forth to curse the community; its fostering of crime and its shielding of criminals—it is all as nothing to this, its worst offence.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

A well-known character often to be seen about here, too, was an unfortunate English farmer of the name of Cowper, of disordered intellect, whose peculiarity was a desire to station himself in the middle of the roadway, and from that vantage-ground to harangue any crowd that might gather, incoherently, but always with a great show of sly drollery and mirthfulness.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Its aspect was so profoundly lamentable, with such a perfection of grotesque misery and weirdness of macabre detail, as if it were the Cab of Death itself, that Mrs Verloc, with that ready compassion of a woman for a horse (when she is not sitting behind him), exclaimed vaguely: “Poor brute!”
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

In the same way, we cannot cogitate relations of things in abstracto, if we commence with conceptions alone, in any other manner than that one is the cause of determinations in the other; for that is itself the conception of the understanding or category of relation.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The hybrids, moreover, produced from reciprocal crosses often differ in fertility.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

et dans les institutions où, comme on dit ici, on "fait papier" (les écoles).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The idea reminds us of the dreams of mediaeval alchemists who thought there exists, if one could only discover it, some magic potion which will so transmute every atom of the human body that death can never affect it.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

—The context will be familiar to you, as this piece is a continuation of Demonstration III; but, none the less, read the passage through very carefully.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

And the world, which knows not that this effect is the result of habit, believes that it arises by a natural force, whence come these words, "The character of Divinity is stamped on his countenance," etc.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Miss Inger came out, dressed in a rust-red tunic like a Greek girl's, tied round the waist, and a red silk handkerchief round her head.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

"Here you are at last, Iris," called out Diana, in her brisk voice, "and not a moment too soon.
— from A Little Mother to the Others by L. T. Meade

A troop of irregular horsemen up to their girths in water is no match for a boat's crew of disciplined infantry.
— from Early Britain—Roman Britain by John William Edward Conybeare

This corpus of doctrine is scarcely yet accessible outside its Latin sources.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

At Chester on distress in Lancashire.
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley

From De Aar to Bloemfontein the railway line was astir with British troops, concentrating or dispersing, in pursuit of De Wet.
— from Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold

Since my coming from England in '92, an Iron Bridge of a single arch 236 feet span versed sine 34 feet, has been cast at the Iron Works of the Walkers where my model was, and erected over the river Wear at Sunderland in the county of Durham in England.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 2. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway

We found that the prior wanders about when he ought to stay in the cloister; he is not in the cloister one day in five.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

They do not teach how to do the thing, but how to make ourselves capable of doing it.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James