In effect, this traditional supposed proof of God's existence resolves itself fundamentally into hypostatizing or substantivating the explanation or reason of a phenomenon; it amounts to saying that Mechanics is the cause of movement, Biology of life, Philology of language, Chemistry of bodies, by simply adding the capital letter to the science and converting it into a force distinct from the phenomena from which we derive it and distinct from our mind which effects the derivation.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

Here, with great tenderness, he restored her to consciousness once more; but on learning from her that it was Danny Mann who had thrust her into the water, and whom he had himself shot in the cave in mistake for an otter, he suspected foul play, and determined to keep the girl hidden for the present, believing the old boatman to be dead.
— from Stories from the Operas by Gladys Davidson

It was the cry of men bankrupt of liberty, thirsty for revenge.
— from Love Among the Ruins by Warwick Deeping

He had more knowledge of the actual earth and sea than he had of pictures or drawings of them; and therefore, if we are to keep in sympathetic touch with him, we must not think too closely of maps, but of land and sea themselves.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 1 by Filson Young

She did not ride on the crook of my elbow, or climb on my back, or look at picture books with me, until she was nearly three years old.
— from A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

And has she not furnished all the corners of my book of Life with so many golden clasps, that I can open it forever without wearing it?
— from The Campaner Thal, and Other Writings by Jean Paul

Our 'Little Invulnerable,' too, was the unconscious cause of many bursts of laughter, which, like the plaudits of an appreciative audience, came in at the right time."
— from Wonders of the Yellowstone by James (Geologist) Richardson

They were quite different from the children of Meadow Brook or Lakeport.
— from The Bobbsey Twins in the Country by Laura Lee Hope

The gentle lord, who never in his life made any case of money, burst out laughing, and said, ‘Madam, how many ducats are there in this box?’
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by François Guizot