Everybody believed that poor girl to be guilty; and if she could have committed the crime for which she suffered, assuredly she would have been the most depraved of human creatures.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And I have joined with it another small Tract concerning the Curvilinear Figures of the Second Kind, which was also written many Years ago, and made known to some Friends, who have solicited the making it publick.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

carian to care for, be anxious .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Meantime, with genial joy to warm the soul, Bright Helen mix'd a mirth inspiring bowl; Temper'd with drugs of sovereign use, to assuage The boiling bosom of tumultuous rage; To clear the cloudy front of wrinkled Care, And dry the tearful sluices of Despair; Charm'd with that virtuous draught, the exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

General Albert Sidney Johnston, who commanded the Confederate forces at the beginning of the battle, was disabled by a wound on the afternoon of the first day.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

On the night following the prisoner's visit to the audience chamber the conversation finally fell upon this subject, and I was all ears on the instant.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer: but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

"Now, gentlemen, I want you to go and do your duty by the other tables as generously as you have by mine—especially the art-table," she said, ordering out "Teddy's Own," as the girls called the college friends.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Skill and bravery were called to combat fierceness, discipline, and overwhelming numbers.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

Flourens considers that chloroform first affects the cerebrum, then the cerebellum, and finally the spinal cord; the action is at first stimulating, afterwards paralysing.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

Perhaps these may come to us more clearly through considering first what life is not.
— from The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training by Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux

If it can Alton will stand a good chance to cop the contest, for I like her attack.
— from Right Tackle Todd by Ralph Henry Barbour

Certainly no writer ever dealt with the members of any profession with such completeness and without ceasing to interest a reader from page to page, from chapter to chapter, from volume to volume.
— from The Lighter Side of English Life by Frank Frankfort Moore

It is childish to claim for Americans or Britons virtues beyond those of other nations, or [Pg 109] to believe in the superiority of one national culture to another; they are different, that is all.
— from Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy

We know that on this ground, in the very beginnings of the Church, the Christians, from the same perversity of view, were persecuted and constantly held up to hatred and contempt, so that they were styled the enemies of the Empire.
— from Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 by Various

The principle of universal suffrage, however applicable to matters of government, which concern the common feelings and common interests of society, is by no means applicable to matters of taste, which can only be decided upon by the most refined understandings.
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt