He failed to see that growing is growth, developing is development, and consequently placed the emphasis upon the completed product.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

I think that the Dr. Tanners and those others who go forty days without eating do it by resolutely keeping out the desire to eat, in the beginning, and that after a few hours the desire is discouraged and comes no more.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

When I was helping Aunt Mary with the dinner dishes I dropped a china plate and it smashed.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Does it dirty a ceiling.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

With an honesty which bordered on simplicity they summoned Morny to yield himself a prisoner, and to return within the law, declaring that in case of refusal the Assembly would do its duty, and call the people to the defence of the Constitution and of the Republic.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

When by the spear, the arrow, or the dart, By night, or day, by force, or by design, Impending death and certain fate are mine!
— from The Iliad by Homer

The Catholic faith had degenerated into dogma and controversy.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

Causes Which Render Democratic Armies Weaker Chapter XXV: Of Discipline In Democratic Armies Chapter XXVI:
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Then fierce the stranger's answer came: “Lord of the giant legions, he From whom celestial armies flee,— The dread of hell and earth and sky, Rávaṇ the Rákshas king am I. Now when thy gold-like form I view Arrayed in silks of amber hue, My love, O thou of perfect mould, For all my dames is dead and cold.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It had been whispered in the bunk house that Skyrider was deep in disgrace, and Curley was worried.
— from Skyrider by B. M. Bower

“ When, severed by death's dream, I woke to Life, She deemed I died, and could not know the strife At first to fill [15] That waking with a love that steady turns To God; a hope that ever upward yearns, Bowed to His will.
— from Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy

Domestic and Personal Service, 4,360,577 Barbers and hairdressers 84,982 Bartenders 55,806 Boarding and lodging house keepers 44,349 Engineers and firemen (not locomotive) 139,765 Hotel keepers 44,076 Housekeepers and stewards 92,036 Hunters, trappers, guides, and scouts 2,534 Janitors 21,556 Laborers (not specified) 1,913,373 Launderers and laundresses 248,463 Nurses and midwives 47,586 Restaurant keepers 19,283 Saloon keepers 71,385 Servants 1,454,791 Sextons 4,982 Soldiers, sailors, and marines (United States) 27,819 Watchmen, policemen, and detectives 74,629 Other domestic and personal service 13,063 Trade and Transportation, 3,326,122 Agents (claim, commission, real estate, insurance, etc.) and collectors 174,582 Auctioneers 3,205 Bankers and brokers (money and stocks) 30,008 Boatmen and canalmen 16,716 Bookkeepers and accountants 159,374 Brokers (commercial) 5,960 Clerks and copyists 557,358 Commercial travellers 58,691 Draymen, hackmen, teamsters, etc 368,499 Foremen and overseers 36,084 Hostlers 54,036 Hucksters and pedlers 59,083 Livery stable keepers 26,757 Locomotive engineers and firemen 79,463 Merchants and dealers in drugs and chemicals (retail) 46,375 Merchants and dealers in drygoods (retail) 42,527 Merchants and dealers in groceries (retail) 114,997 Merchants and dealers in wines and liquors (retail) 10,078 Merchants and dealers in wines and liquors (wholesale) 3,643 Merchants and dealers not specified (retail) 446,262 Merchants and dealers (wholesale), importers and shipping merchants 27,443 Messengers, and errand and office boys 51,355 Newspaper carriers and newsboys 5,288 Officials of banks and insurance, trade, transportation, trust and other companies 39,900 Packers and shippers 24,946 Pilots 4,259 Porters and helpers (in stores and warehouses) 24,356 Sailors 55,899 Salesmen and saleswomen 264,394 Steam railroad employés (not otherwise specified) 382,750 Stenographers and typewriters 33,418 p. 139 Street railway employés 37,434 Telephone and telegraph operators 52,314 Telephone and telegraph linemen and electric light and power company employés
— from Practical Pointers for Patentees by Franklin Allison Cresee

‘The deed is done, and can’t be undone by talking here.’
— from A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy

He reproaches their kings, Constantine, (king of the Danmonians, in Devonshire and Cornwall,) Vortipor, (of the Dimetians, in South Wales,) Conon, Cuneglas, and Maglocune, princes in other parts of Britain, with horrible crimes: but Constantine was soon after sincerely converted, as Gale informs us from an ancient Welsh chronicle.[3]
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

" The Yorkshireman obeyed, and getting into the main street, onwards they jogged, right through Croydon, and struck into a line of villas of all sorts, shapes, and sizes, which extend for several miles along the road, exhibiting all sorts of architecture, Gothic, Corinthian, Doric, Ionic, Dutch, and Chinese.
— from Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees

He talked in a monotone, and, as he talked, the girl seemed to see a spirit dying in darkness and confinement, as a potted plant might die in a cellar.
— from The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck