Education may be conceived either retrospectively Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education Summary.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

'Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and high cockolorum,' said the Dodger: with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

‘That person was your companion,’ said the doctor, pointing to the still unmoved stranger.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

COKESON shuts the door.
— from Justice by John Galsworthy

Then said he, "Now, Master Sheriff, the last time thou camest to Sherwood Forest thou didst come seeking to despoil a poor spendthrift, and thou wert despoiled thine own self; but now thou comest seeking to do no harm, nor do I know that thou hast despoiled any man.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

They cannot rightly be called complaisant, since they do not know, but they are good creatures who cannot see farther than their nose.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

‘What would I do if I was in your case?’ said the dwarf.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Then, after all this, suppose the day and hour for taking his degree in his calling to have come; suppose the day of battle to have arrived, when they invest him with the doctor's cap made of lint, to mend some bullet-hole, perhaps, that has gone through his temples, or left him with a crippled arm or leg.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He (Down-by-the-starn) had been head of that office for more years than a boy like him could count, and if he thought that when he had finished all his work, he could sit there doing nothing, he did not know him, Hemmings (Down-by-the-starn), and so forth.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

How clippeth she the dede cors, allas?
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

"Compulsion, all compulsion," said the Duke of Orleans; "we shall yet see him on the throne of England."
— from Agincourt: A Romance The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

As a step towards such State maintenance this Conference, supporting the decision of the last Trades Union Congress upon this question, calls upon the Government to introduce without further delay such legislative measures as will enable the local authorities to provide meals for children attending the common schools, to be paid for out of the National Exchequer; and in support of this demand calls attention to the evidence given by Dr. Eichholz, the official witness of the Board of Education
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker

I saw them taken into the side gate not ten minutes ago and——" "Come!" said Theodore Dalton.
— from In and Out by Edgar Franklin

“And to hold the Secretary’s book when she’s writing,” urged Ethel Blue who held the office of scribe and had not always found herself conveniently situated to do her work.
— from Ethel Morton at Sweetbrier Lodge by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

I hastened to put on my clothes; but before I got dressed I could hear the captain's voice shouting "Kimo" (Welcome), from the quarter-deck, and when I joined him I could see two dark objects that seemed to be approaching rapidly, and could hear the confused sounds of voices in conversation coming up from the water.
— from Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records by William H. (William Henry) Gilder

With the dying of the fire Elinor's cheer seemed to die too, and she sat silent in the moonlight with hands folded before her and feet thrust out toward the warm ashes.
— from Sir Christopher: A Romance of a Maryland Manor in 1644 by Maud Wilder Goodwin

Clam Fritters 1-1/2 cups flour 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/3 teaspoon pepper 1/3 teaspoon paprika 1/2 cup milk or clam juice 2 eggs 1-1/2 teaspoons grated onion 1 teaspoon melted shortening 10 clams Sift together dry ingredients; add liquid, beaten eggs, onion, and shortening; rinse clams, put through meat chopper and add to batter.
— from New Royal Cook Book by Royal Baking Powder Company

Among other designs, he Meditated Invasion of England. meditated the invasion of England itself, and assembled for that purpose one of the most splendid armies which had been collected since the days of the Roman legions.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord