In further increasing [Pg 152] the rapidity of the blows, the tone undergoes the change of quality distinguished as rise in pitch; and it continues to rise in pitch as the blows continue to increase in rapidity, until it reaches an acuteness beyond which it is no longer appreciable as a tone.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Indeed, I do not see why a Libertarian should not—equally with a Determinist—accept as valid, and find it instructive to contemplate, the considerations that render it probable that he will not choose to do right in any particular circumstances.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

About this time General Halleck ordered troops from Helena, Arkansas (territory west of the Mississippi was not under my command then) to cut the road in Pemberton's rear.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Then Arthur cried to rend the cloth, to rend In pieces, and so cast it on the hearth.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

“We must take exhaustive tests if we expect the court to reverse its prior decision.”
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

In fact, though when we regard the time which it took the city to recover its populousness, and the state of desolation from which it started, we cannot fail to be struck at the rapidity and the extent of its improvement in regard both to private and public wealth; yet when we contemplate the natural advantages of its site, and the contributions from outside which served to raise its fortunes to their original height, this feeling must give way to a conviction that the advance was somewhat less than might have been expected.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

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— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

But as the scandal concerning the Templars was increasing, he consented to receive in private audience "a certain Knight of the Order, of great nobility and held by the said Order in no slight esteem," who testified to the abominations that took place on the reception of the Brethren, the spitting on the cross, and other things which were not lawful nor, humanly speaking, decent.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Men have this privilege almost to the exclusion of women (Roth cites one single case of a taboo imposed by women); it is at its maximum with the chiefs and old men, who use it to monopolize whatever things they find it convenient to (Roth, ibid. , p. 77).
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

When the Host suddenly cuts short the Tale of Sir Thopas, Chaucer takes refuge in prose.
— 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

[48] And Elizabeth Drinker records again: "1783, July 9.—John Payne's family came to reside in Philadelphia."
— from Dorothy Payne, Quakeress: A Side-Light Upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison by Ella K. (Ella Kent) Barnard

Every thing combines to render it pre-eminently beautiful.
— from The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper by Brock, Isaac, Sir

"In the Attic Commonwealth, it was the privilege of every citizen to rail in public."— Ib. , p. 316.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

In both cases the result is probably due to a slight degree of exosmose.
— from Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin

Take mushrooms, and clean them, the buttons you may wash, but the flaps you must pill both inside and out; when you have cleaned them, pick out the little ones for pickling, and cut the rest in pieces for stewing; wash them and put them into a little water, give them a boil and it will take off the faintness, so drain from them all the water, then put them into a pan with a lump of butter, a little shred mace, pepper and salt to your taste (putting them to a little water) hang them over a slow fire for half an hour, when they are enough thicken them with a little flour; serve them up with sippets.
— from English Housewifery Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery by Elizabeth Moxon

If water or gas companies combine, the public immediately loses all the advantage of competition, and it has generally happened, that at the end of a period during which they have undersold each other, the several companies have agreed to divide the whole district supplied, into two or more parts, each company then removing its pipes from all the streets except those in its own portion.
— from On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Charles Babbage

What grounds have we for thinking that the mountaineering difficulties will not prove insuperable, that in so far as mere climbing is concerned the route is practicable?
— from Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921 by A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston

The strange vessel was about two cables' length ahead of the Scud , standing by the wind athwart her bows, and steering a course to render it probable that the latter would pass within a few yards of her.
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

On no other supposition can their remaining in Paris be explained.
— from Stories About Famous Precious Stones by Adela E. (Adela Elizabeth Richards) Orpen