A young tree, which over-tops and destroys its parent, stands in all the same relations with Nero, when he murdered Agrippina; and if morality consisted merely in relations, would no doubt be equally criminal.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

He maintains that the Deity is present substantially in all creatures.
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

The presumption, based upon the difference in physical strength, is against it.
— from The Education of American Girls by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett

The window turned into a chute, and he slid down its polished sides into an amphitheatre.
— from The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley

No one can regret it more than I do, in particular since I am really a Southerner myself, a Kentuckian.
— from The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

This consequence, which ensues from the diversity in philosophical systems, is, as may be supposed, the evil in the matter, while at the same time it is a subjective good.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

EUROPEAN MEASURES AGAINST THE YUGOSLAVS AND THEIR FRIENDS Berati Beg, Tirana's delegate in Paris, said in an interview with a representative of the Belgrade Pravda , at the beginning of November 1921, that he regretted that European diplomats should interfere in the Serbo-Albanian question.
— from The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein

Darkham is probably sitting in a tree at this moment taking aim."
— from The Red House Mystery The Piccadilly Novels by Duchess

He must do it privately, secretly, in a lonely spot; and he must spare no pains, must plot and scheme till he contrived all the convincing details of a likely accident.
— from The Devil's Garden by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

The godwit makes no attempt at concealment, the eggs being deposited in plain sight in a slight hollow in the short grass.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent