What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience?
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

Just what the Islands have cost us up to date in money it is utterly impossible to figure out with any degree of certainty, except that a safe minimum may be arrived at.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

If my love must be drowned in my ignorance and stupidity, at least do not force me to make the plunge myself.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

I saw it going into your house as I came by, and if she hadn't defended it manfully I'd have had a pick at it, for it looked like a remarkably plummy one."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

that evil spirits do in many instances possess or control the mind
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

I wonder if it ever could again—I doubt it might, if I lost you, Eppie.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

This last is the source par excellence of sympathy, because it vibrates like an echo; the active temperament lends itself less to such impulses, because it has so much to do in manifesting its own individuality that it can scarcely manifest those of others; finally, the phlegmatic temperament does so least of all, because it presents a minimum of emotional life; like Leibnitz' monads, it has no windows.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The national spirit of an Army (enthusiasm, fanatical zeal, faith, opinion) displays itself most in mountain warfare, where every one down to the common soldier is left to himself.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Choose the driest and whitest; it is a very gentle purger of choler, quenches thirst, provokes appetite, eases the roughness of the throat, helps bitterness in the throat, and often proneness to vomit, it is very good for such as are subject to be costive to put it into their drink instead of sugar, it hath no obnoxious quality at all in it, but may be taken by a pregnant woman without any danger; a child of a year old may take an ounce of it at a time dissolved in milk, it will melt like sugar, neither will it be known from it by the taste.
— 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

He found something haughty in her mode of address, like that of a queen speaking to a subject, and looked at her intently to discern its meaning, if possible.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

I hesitate to think of what will happen in my interior department if Murphy is deceiving us.”
— from The Genial Idiot: His Views and Reviews by John Kendrick Bangs

Considering it was to be done in May, I think I am pretty punctual.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley

“But,” said I, after the landlord had departed, “I must insist on being my share.
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

"Dare I murmur indigestion?"
— from Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

In ordinary fleas these organs are retracted when the insect has done its meal; in the present family they remain, in the case of the females, apparently permanently fastened in the skin.
— from The Flea by Harold Russell

Jevons in 1878 in some researches on the "Brownian movement" or "pedesis" of small particles, a movement of the particles which is observed to take place when clay, iron oxide, or other finely divided insoluble matter is suspended in water, found that the pedetic action was considerably increased by soap and sodium silicate, and suggested that to this action of soap might be attributed much of its cleansing power.
— from The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. (William Herbert) Simmons

An orthodox Sarwaria Brāman will not give his daughter in marriage in a village from which his family has received a girl, and sometimes will not even drink the water of that village.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

it had every appearance of being perfectly Sound in every part The brown Duck is much in form like the Duckinmallard, tho not much more than half
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

For, according to the laws, a father who does not give his daughter in marriage is blameworthy."
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck