Control of Problems through Secondary Contacts, as Charity Organization Society, Social Service Registration Bureau, Police Department, Morals Court, Publicity through the Press, etc. 12.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

What I mean is that, in our meditative consciousness, the consequences of different actions which we think we are able to carry out present themselves successively, one after the other, and we compare these consequences in our mind.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And from thence, as the wearisome years rolled on, long after Poor Mickey fell down in the water tower to his death Down, down, through bellowing darkness, I carried The vision which perished with him like a rocket which falls And quenches its light in earth, and hid it for fear Of the son of the banker, calling on Plutus to save me?
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

Was I right in attributing this sudden change of place to some threatened annoyance on the part of Count Fosco?
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

LA-F: They all come out of our house, the La-Fooles of the north, the La-Fooles of the west, the La-Fooles of the east and south—we are as ancient a family as any is in Europe—but I myself am descended lineally of the French La-Fooles—and, we do bear for our coat yellow, or or, checker'd azure, and gules, and some three or four colours more, which is a very noted coat, and has, sometimes, been solemnly worn by divers nobility of our house—but let that go, antiquity is not respected now.—I had a brace of fat does sent me, gentlemen, and half a dozen of pheasants, a dozen or two of godwits, and some other fowl, which I would have eaten, while they are good, and in good company:—there will be a great lady, or two, my lady Haughty, my lady Centaure, mistress Dol Mavis—and they come o' purpose to see the silent gentlewoman, mistress Epicoene, that honest sir John Daw has promis'd to bring thither—and then, mistress Trusty, my lady's woman, will be there too, and this honourable knight, sir Dauphine, with yourself, master Clerimont—and we'll be very merry, and have fidlers, and dance.—I have been a mad wag in my time, and have spent some crowns since I was a page in court, to my lord Lofty, and after, my lady's gentleman-usher, who got me knighted in Ireland, since it pleased my elder brother to die.—I had as fair a gold jerkin on that day, as any worn in the island voyage, or at Cadiz, none dispraised; and I came over in it hither, shew'd myself to my friends in court, and after went down to my tenants in the country, and surveyed my lands, let new leases, took their money, spent it in the eye
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Bagdad was no longer the city of peace, the seat of the caliphs; but the noblest conquest of Holacou could not be overlooked by his ambitious successor.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This borough, upon petition made by the citizens of London to Edward I., in the 1st year of his reign, was, for divers causes, by parliament granted to them for ever, yielding into the exchequer the fee-firm of ten pounds by the year; which grant was confirmed by Edward III., who, in the 3rd of his reign gave them license to take a toll towards the charge of paving the said borough with stone.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

In taboo the connotation of "not to be touched" is the salient point all over the world, even in cases of permanent taboo such as belongs to Samoan and Maori chiefs, with whom no one dared come in contact; and so we may infer the same aversion to be potential in all such relations.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Chapter 1.XXXIV.—How Gargantua left the city of Paris to succour his country, and how Gymnast encountered with the enemy.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The citizens of Prague, thus shamefully abandoned by their defenders, had long taken their resolution; all that they had to do was to secure their properties and liberties by an advantageous capitulation.
— from The Thirty Years War — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

But some very solid matters have also been precipitated, some crystals of poetry translucent, symmetrical, enduring.
— from Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

This section should be compared with section 2, and they should be consolidated, or preferably they should both be omitted as unnecessary and as being outside of the purview of this act.
— from Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906. by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents

If the triglyphs are placed centrally over the columns or pilasters the spacing of these apart will be two and a half diameters centre to centre, three and three-quarters, or five diameters, with two, three or four metopes respectively between them in the frieze.
— from Design and Tradition A short account of the principles and historic development of architecture and the applied arts by Amor Fenn

It would be hours before the ship had disgorged her double complement of passengers, to say nothing of the luggage.
— from An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

The universal curiosity of people to see what are popularly called wild animals, especially those larger species which never frequent the precincts of civilization, is a fact of which it is not easy to give a philosophical explanation.
— from The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive by Hiram Martin Chittenden

He spoke: “But these troubles of mine, Captain Bluteau——” “Do not call me Captain Bluteau,” cried Genestas, breaking in upon the doctor, and springing to his feet with sudden energy, a change of position that seemed to be prompted by inward dissatisfaction of some kind.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac