Occidental society has evidently run in this direction into great abuses, complicating life prodigiously without ennobling the mind.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But why he said so strange a thing No Warder dared to ask: For he to whom a watcher’s doom Is given as his task, Must set a lock upon his lips, And make his face a mask.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Oudarde looked and beheld, in the corner where the eyes of the recluse were fixed in that sombre ecstasy, a tiny shoe of pink satin, embroidered with a thousand fanciful designs in gold and silver.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Deeper it goes, and deeper, into the wilderness, less plainly to be seen at every step; until, some few miles hence, the yellow leaves will show no vestige of the white man's tread.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Let us fix these degrees in grief, a difficult subject, and one much
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The decoction of the herb made with wine, and drank, is good against the biting and stinging of serpents, and helps them that make foul, troubled or bloody water.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

I. Of Transcendental Illusory Appearance We termed dialectic in general a logic of appearance.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The judge, being deaf, and being in no way warned of the deafness of the accused, thought that the latter had answered, as all accused do in general, and therefore he pursued, with his mechanical and stupid self-possession,— “Very well.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The acid also prevents decomposition in gut and parchment during their manufacture.
— 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

He used the word only in connection with what he called "correlated variation," meaning by this expression "that the whole organisation is so tied together during its growth and development, that when slight variations in any one part occur, and are accumulated through natural selection, other parts become modified" (6th ed., p. 177).
— from Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

How long a child should be permitted to ride at a stretch is a question very often asked me, and one to which I find some difficulty in giving a satisfactory reply.
— from Riding for Ladies: With Hints on the Stable by O'Donoghue, Power, Mrs.

I had at my girdle the little cangiar, with silver handle encrusted with coral, and curved blade six inches long, damascened in gold, and sharp as a razor; the blackest and the basest of all the devils of the Pit was whispering in my breast with calm persistence: 'Kill, kill—and eat.'
— from The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

Some more visitors dropped in, Geraldine amongst them.
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

The native, however, can, and many of them do, improve greatly along this line after they have become Christians.
— from South and South Central Africa A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoples by Hannah Frances Davidson

They divide into Government and Opposition, and pass and reject bills in a way which would do credit to the nation in Parliament assembled."
— from Famous Givers and Their Gifts by Sarah Knowles Bolton

Nor does such finding deaden the spirit of seeking, for in every finding there is a fresh discovery of new depths in God, and a consequent quickening of desire to press further into the abyss of His Being, so that aspiration and fruition ever beget each other, and the upward, Godward progress of the soul is eternal.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

Rationally treated, this problem can only run thus: Can human actions be divided into good and evil?
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

"What air ye going to do in Glesgie?" asked she in clear, bell-like accents.
— from An American Hobo in Europe A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old Country by Ben Goodkind