Mastering such definitions, sinking into the dry life of such forms, he may spin out and develop indefinitely, in the freedom of his irresponsible logic, their implications and congruous extensions, opening by his demonstration a depth of knowledge which we should otherwise never have discovered in ourselves.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

As the light dawned lingeringly on his new creations, he sat rapt and silent before the vision, or wandered alone over the green campus peering through and beyond the world of men into a world of thought.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

The doctrine of the divine right of majorities leads to almost humorous insistence on a dead level of mediocrity.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

To one digestive apparatus ruined, by eating hurriedly, by eating unsuitable or poorly cooked food, by drinking ice water when one is heated, by swallowing scalding drinks, especially tea, which forms tannic acid on the delicate lining of the stomach; or by eating when tired or worried, or after receiving bad news, when the gastric juice can not be secreted, etc. Dyspepsia, melancholia, years of misery to self, anxiety to one's family, pity and disgust of friends.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

We accordingly recognise in tragedy a thorough-going stylistic contrast: the language, colour, flexibility and dynamics of the dialogue fall apart in the Dionysian lyrics of the chorus on the one hand, and in the Apollonian dream-world of the scene on the other, into entirely separate spheres of expression.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The woman paid up, but discovered later on that she had been hoaxed.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Not one of all the race, nor sex, nor age, Shall save a Trojan from our boundless rage: Ilion shall perish whole, and bury all; Her babes, her infants at the breast, shall fall; 165 A dreadful lesson of exampled fate, To warn the nations, and to curb the great!"
— from The Iliad by Homer

It was a serene starlight night, and the dark line of the English coast continued for some time visible at intervals, as we rose on the broad back of the waves.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I told the men that the degraded labor of women made them quite as heavy a millstone
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Sir, I loved once a lady, a fair damosel, and she had her brother slain; and she said it was Sir Launcelot du Lake, or else Sir Gawaine; and she prayed me as that I loved her heartily, that I would make her a promise by the faith of my knighthood, for to labour daily in arms unto I met with one of them; and all that I might overcome I should put them unto a villainous death; and this is the cause that I have put all these knights to death, and so I ensured her to do all the villainy unto King Arthur's knights, and that I should take vengeance upon all these knights.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

On a breezy day one may go far for a prettier sight than the river-bank and esplanade at Carrollton, where the mighty coffee-colored flood swirls by, where the vast steamers struggle and cough against the stream, or swiftly go with it round the bend, leaving their trail of smoke, and the delicate line of foliage against the sky on the far opposite shore completes the outline of an exquisite landscape.
— from Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada by Charles Dudley Warner

He enumerated the three items slowly, dwelling lovingly on each.
— from Novel Notes by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

DIRECTIONS FOR PRACTICE ON LONG QUANTITY.—Select some word of one syllable ending with a long vocal or a subvocal sound; pronounce it many times in succession, increasing the quantity at each repetition, until you can dwell upon it any desired length of time, without drawling, and in a natural tone.
— from McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

And as for the ghost they say frequents this chamber, I believe that's all in my eye, though, to be sure, the window does look out on the burial ground."
— from The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage

He wore the conventional dress livery of twilled worsted, with an extremely high-winged collar and an extremely small lawn tie.
— from The Man Who Couldn't Sleep by Arthur Stringer

Marijuana is the dried leaf of the cannabis or hemp plant (Cannabis sativa).
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He saw his daughter perverted into a heavy, slatternly drudge; he saw his son go moping down the ways of low sensuality, to brutality and crime; he saw the dawning light of intelligence in the eyes of his babies so changing into cunning and suspicion, that he could have rather wished them idiots.
— from Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens

But it is needless to dwell longer on the miseries endured by the people of the Netherlands in this season of trial.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

Also wit, discretion, learning or skill.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio