She has been allowed entire freedom in the choice of means and methods for carrying on her great work; and, as we can judge by the results, she has made a most judicious and discreet use of this privilege.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

This applicability, the prerequisite of significant thought, is also its eventual test; and the gathering of new experiences, the consciousness of more and more facts crowding into the memory and demanding co-ordination, is at once the presentation to reason of her legitimate problem and a proof that she is already at work.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Tiyù pagkamatay ni Tátay, My uncle took care of me after my father died.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It was decided to communicate once more and make final arrangements at midday on the morrow, though without meeting.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But this religious movement did not stop at mental healing: according to published reports, during the years 1908-9 the leader of the New York First Church of Christ, Scientist, was deposed, and, with certain of her close associates, was charged with having projected daily against the late Mrs. Eddy’s adjutant a current of ‘malicious animal magnetism’ from New York to Boston, in order to bring about his death.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

In accordance with the above resolution, the following gentlemen were appointed said committee: J. W. Torbert, of Cooper county, Major Morin, of Platte " W. M. Jackson, of Howard " S. Barker, of Carroll " A. G. Davis, of Caldwell " J. S. Williams, of Linn " E. C. McCarty, of Jackson " Austin A. King, of Ray " Edwin Toole, of Andrew " D. H. Chism, of Morgan " A. M. Forbes, of Pettis " A. G. Blakey, of Benton " Thomas E. Birch, of Clinton " G. H. C. Melody, of Boone " Sam.
— from Address to the People of the United States, together with the Proceedings and Resolutions of the Pro-Slavery Convention of Missouri, Held at Lexington, July 1855 by Unknown

It was five o'clock on a cool October morning, and my friend, the little Italian, was tugging away at my jacket.
— from My Life by Josiah Flynt

The letters from Philip and Fanny informed us merely of the continued health, and the revived cheerfulness, of Mr. and Mrs. Faringfield; and presently of the good fortune of Mr. Cornelius in being chosen to fill two pulpits in small towns sufficiently near New York to permit his residence in Queen Street.
— from Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens

With the daily extending sphere of action of the Roman government, moreover, it was a case of more and more frequent occurrence, that the supreme magistrates were called to undertake extraordinary military or judicial commissions.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

This convoy of men and money from Dumoh led to a smart military encounter.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

A delightful excursion of ten or a dozen miles carried our party, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Flower, Mr. and Mrs. Willett, with A—— and myself, to Compton Wynyate, a most interesting old mansion, belonging to the Marquis of Northampton, who, with his daughter-in-law, Lady William Compton, welcomed us and showed us all the wonders of the place.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I told him who I was, and that I was come from a distant part of the kingdom, for the purpose of rendering him the medium of a charge of murder against my former patron.
— from Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are by William Godwin

It is possible to conceive that music may in the future desert form in favour of colour; it is possible to conceive that painters might produce pictures of pure colour, quite apart from any imitation of natural objects, in which colour might aspire more to the condition of music, and modulate from tone to tone.
— from The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson

Trees grow outward from the upper windows, and, in the cracks of masonry and marble floors, a tropic vegetation has sprung up.
— from Plotting in Pirate Seas by Francis Rolt-Wheeler