A little child raises a piteous cry of fright if it is left alone for only a few minutes; and later on, to be shut up by itself is a great punishment.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

ANT: Careful, considerate, regardful, attentive, prudent, cautious, circumspect, scrupulous, mindful.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Where is the modern people among whom consuming greed, unrest, intrigue, continual removals, and perpetual changes of fortune, could let such a system last for twenty years without turning the State upside down?
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have an enormous respect now for the old etiquette and ceremonies regarded as physical culture.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

I have sometimes thought of the phenomenon called 'total reflexion' in optics as a good symbol of the relation between abstract ideas and concrete realities, as pragmatism conceives it.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

But this Maçonnerie d'Adoption , as it was called, retained a purely convivial character; a sham ceremonial, with symbols, pass words, and a ritual, was devised as a consolation to the members for their exclusion from the real lodges.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

P. 'The House of Commons resembles a private company.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Beneath this the children run and play, climbing, jumping, and tearing the new camisas in which they should shine on the principal day of the fiesta.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The church remaineth a parish church to the tenants dwelling in the precinct of the hospital; but in the year 1546, on the 13th of January, the bishop of Rochester, preaching at Paules cross, declared the gift of the said king to [335] the citizens for relieving of the poor, which contained the church of the Gray Fryers, the church of St. Bartilmew, with the hospital, the messuages, and appurtenances in Giltspurre alias Knightriders’ street, Breton street, Petar quay, in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, in Old Fish street, and in the parish of St. Benet Buda, Lymehurst, or Limehost, in the parish of Stebunheth, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The process requires a longer time than with a carefully regulated and properly conducted dialysis, but it entails considerably less trouble.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

The shell is clear and transparent, and each of the pores which penetrate it is surrounded by a raised crest, the crest round adjacent pores coalescing into a roughly hexagonal network, so that the pores appear to lie at the bottom of a hexagonal pit.
— from Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Not only have the findings in Crete revolutionised all previously current ideas upon Art, but they have also condemned to the melting-pot the cardinal article of belief that the alphabet reached us from Phœnicia.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

Their farm passed by inheritance to their sons, they paying certain rents and performing certain feudal duties; but the feudal lord had no power to dispose of the property as he pleased.
— from The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire by S. W. Partington

At last the canoe reached a place called Ikho.
— from Mou-Setsé: A Negro Hero; The Orphans' Pilgimage: A Story of Trust in God by L. T. Meade

The cook raised a piercing cry.
— from The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

[333] Caude causantur, regnarunt, apocopantur, Privantur caude, fas fandi, "Scotia plaude".
— from In Byways of Scottish History by Louis A. Barbé

It is sometimes desirable to have each member of the class read a piece complete in itself.
— from Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading; with Numerous Exercises for Practice, Both in Prose and Poetry, Various in Style, and Carefully Adapted to the Purposes of Teaching in Schools of Every Grade by Charles W. (Charles Walton) Sanders