The apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans is a cento of Pauline phrases strung together without any definite connexion or any clear object.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Austrey, Warwickshire Perpendicular window, Merton College Chapel, Oxford Tudor arch, vestry door, Adderbury Church, Oxon Perpendicular parapet, St. Erasmus’ Chapel, Westminster Abbey Perpendicular moulding, window, Christchurch, Oxford Diagram of a manor Ancient plan of Old Sarum
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Coils of perfectly pink smoke from the funnels floated over the copse, and two windows in the last compartment flashed so brilliantly in the sun, that it hurt their eyes to look at it.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A few paces down it we were met by four mutes—two men and two women—who bowed low and then arranged themselves, the women in front and the men behind of us, and in this order we continued our procession past several doorways hung with curtains resembling those leading to our own quarters, and which I afterwards found opened out into chambers occupied by the mutes who attended on She .
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

"Nay; it would be sinful, in such a question, to follow the clue of profane philosophy," said Mr. Wilson.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Before she turned away, Anne unpinned the little cluster of purple pansies she wore and dropped it softly on the grave of the boy who had perished in the great sea-duel.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

At the present time it is so popular to malign the newspaper that few recognize the extent to which news has freed mankind from the control of political parties, social institutions, and, it may be added, from the "tyranny" of books.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

With regard to that large and important body which constitutes the permanent strength of the public service, those who do not change with changes of politics, but remain to aid every minister by their experience and traditions, inform him by their knowledge of business, and conduct official details under his general control—those, in short, who form the class of professional public servants, entering their profession as others do while young, in the hope of rising progressively to its higher grades as they advance in life—it is evidently inadmissible that these should be liable to be turned out, and deprived of the whole benefit of their previous service, except for positive, proved, and serious misconduct.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Therefore we may gauge the "profound sense of the mathematician," of whom Lichtenberg has made fun, in that he says: "These so-called professors of mathematics have taken advantage of the ingenuousness of other people, have attained the credit of possessing profound sense, which strongly resembles the theologians' profound sense of their own holiness."
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Nay; it would be sinful, in such a question, to follow the clew of profane philosophy,” said Mr. Wilson.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Without being confident of possessing powerful support, the regent would not, they argued, employ such language.
— from History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 04 by Friedrich Schiller

And scarcely had the charge of Pack proved successful, ere the French were again compelled by shells and cannon to evacuate this prize.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

Conspicuas tum flore genas, diademate crinem 560 membraque gemmato trabeae viridantia cinctu et fortes umeros et certatura Lyaeo inter Erythraeas surgentia colla smaragdos mirari sine fine nurus; ignaraque virgo, cui simplex calet ore pudor, per singula cernens 565 nutricem consultat anum: quid fixa draconum ora velint?
— from Claudian, volume 2 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

Other writers have gained sympathy for dramatic criminals by eliciting the alleged "soul of goodness in things evil"; but Mr Bax would propound some quite undramatic and apparently shabby violation of our commercial law and morality, and not merely defend it with the most disconcerting ingenuity, but actually prove it to be a positive duty that nothing but the certainty of police persecution should prevent every right-minded man from at once doing on principle.
— from Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by Bernard Shaw

One constantly sees cases of poor people sent to prison because they happen to have children.
— from Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies

[Pg 419] old, Mawruss, we will draw it out with anything else what you put in there for him, Mawruss, and we will deposit it in our own bank to the credit of Potash, Perlmutter & Son ."
— from Potash & Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Montague Glass

60 Charlevoix, Père Pierre François Xavier de, i. 232-233 Charlotte Princess Royal of England, ii. 142; vi. 118 Charlotte of Prussia, Princess (see Alexandra Feodorowna Empress of Russia) Charlotte Mademoiselle de Valois, Duchess of Modena, v. 230 Charrière, Isabelle Agnes van Tujil, Dame de Sainte-Hyacinthe de, iv.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

C——, August 25, 19—. Mr. Henry Jones, S——, Mich. Dear Sir:— Your consignment of Peaches per S.S.
— from The New Century Standard Letter-Writer Business, Family and Social Correspondence, Love-Letters, Etiquette, Synonyms, Legal Forms, Etc. by Alfred B. Chambers