Prior to this ceremony, the girl is destitute of clothing, except for a strip of areca bark.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

After about eight days of constant easterly gales, the wind hauled occasionally a little to the southward, and blew hard, which, as we were well to the southward, allowed us to brace in a little and stand on, under all the sail we could carry.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Whatsoever doth or can exist, or be considered as one thing is positive: and so not only simple ideas and substances, but modes also, are positive beings: though the parts of which they consist are very often relative one to another: but the whole together considered as one thing, and producing in us the complex idea of one thing, which idea is in our minds, as one picture, though an aggregate of divers parts, and under one name, it is a positive or absolute thing, or idea.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

But in addition to this explicit information, we learn from the correspondence [3] of Augustine, that it was due to the importunity of his friend Marcellinus that this defence of Christianity extended beyond the limits of a few letters.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

It is a brown desert of considerable extent, that produces nothing but heath and fern; and what rendered it the more dreary when we passed, there was a thick fog that hindered us from seeing above twenty yards from the carriage—My sister began to make wry faces, and use her smelling-bottle; Liddy looked blank, and Mrs Jenkins dejected; but in a few hours these clouds were dissipated; the sea appeared upon our right, and on the left the mountains retired a little, leaving an agreeable plain betwixt them and the beach;
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Hence that grave, fixed look observable in so many children, of which Raphael makes such a happy use in his depiction of cherubs, especially in the picture of the Sistine Madonna .
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

He was sure that he could do something better than his friend had ever done, or could ever do, something higher than mere tawdry journalism if he only got the chance.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

But the wench went, and I believe had her turn served Came to bed to me, but all would not make me friends Chatted with her, her husband out of the way Could not saw above 4 inches of the stone in a day Do look upon me as a remembrancer of his former vanity Doubtfull of himself, and easily be removed from his own opinion Drink a dish of coffee Even to the having bad words with my wife, and blows too Expected musique, the missing of which spoiled my dinner Expressly taking care that nobody might see this business done Fear of making her think me to be in a better condition Fear all his kindness is but only his lust to her Feared
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But if we suppose that the author took the days as days of God, and therefore, in his conception of the days of creation, elevated the same above the common earthly days of the creature, and so represented them to himself as he alone, through his idea of God, thought he might Page 301 [301] venture to do, then that mode of expression, so exceedingly strange under all other suppositions, appears very simple and natural to us.
— from The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Rudolf Schmid

Nowhere else did there exist a more perfect democracy of conscious equals.
— from History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

He had conceived, before I met him, the design of collecting everything in all languages relative to fermented liquors and the processes of their manufacture.
— from The Confessions of a Collector by William Carew Hazlitt

"I'm one of the directors of Consolidated Electric.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Various

We appear, however, at all events to have evidence that when effective consciousness does enter on the scene and play its part in the guidance of behaviour, its progress is, in technical phraseology, marked by that differentiation of conscious elements, and that integration of these differentiated items, which are seemingly the correlatives of the differentiation and integration of nervous systems.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

"That may have arisen, in part," said Bart, "from the dim sight of the seer, and the difficulty of clothing extraordinary visions in the garb of ordinary things.
— from Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by A. G. (Albert Gallatin) Riddle

Your true and grateful brother, Shoghi Letter of 14 August 1944 14 August 1944 ANXIOUS SAFETY LONDON BELIEVERS KINDLY CABLE. SHOGHI RABBÁNÍ Letter of 5 January 1945 5 January 1945 APPRECIATE VERBATIM REPORTS ADDRESSES DELIVERED OPENING CENTENARY EXHIBITION AND PUBLIC MEETING DENISON HOUSE.
— from The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles by Effendi Shoghi

The year 1919 was not a year of creation and decision, it was just the {v2-567} first cheerless dawn of a long day of creative effort.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells