For who can believe, that he that doth ordinarily such actions, as proceed from any of these rootes, believeth there is any such Invisible Power to be feared, as he affrighteth other men withall, for lesser faults? That which taketh away the reputation of Love, is the being detected of private ends: as when the beliefe they require of others, conduceth or seemeth to conduce to the acquiring of Dominion, Riches, Dignity, or secure Pleasure, to themselves onely, or specially.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin, (I speak not of what the Doctor really did, or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of as having been done by him,) who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

One day when he was standing at the landing-place, having crept down from the upper regions, attracted by the sound of his mother's voice, who was singing to Lord Steyne, the drawing room door opening suddenly, discovered the little spy, who but a moment before had been rapt in delight, and listening to the music.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin (I speak not of what the doctor really did, or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of as having been done by him), who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion.
— from The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 1 (of 2) by Marshall, Julian, Mrs.

There never has been a time when Whittier's lines concerning Sumner would not have been applicable to her: "Wherever wrong doth right deny, Or suffering spirits urge their plea, Here is a voice to smite the lie, A hand to set the captive free."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

In several hollows up above Captain Gay discovered rich deposits of small nuggets that were secured with ease, and two weeks later the Major called a meeting of all the members of the party on the sands before his tent.
— from Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

They likewise recur on two of several sacrificial papers on p. 69, amongst which one exhibits a diagonal [pg 038] cross, another the S-sign, while others display realistic drawings of stars with six or eight points.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

Anecdote of his son, i. 56 n. Robert the Monk, the chronicler, i. 49 n. Rodolphe, chancellor of Jerusalem, i. 328 . —— de Rhenfield, duke of Swabia, i. 76 .
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

You have doubtless read descriptions, or seen pictures, of these old playhouses, The Theatre, The Curtain, The Rose, The Swan, The Fortune, The Globe, The Belle Savage, The Red Bull, The Black Friars.
— from The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

From 8:15 to 9:30 was given the principal attraction of the evening, a popular lecture, dramatic reading, debate on some burning question, or a professional concert.
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

[14] DIPLOMATIC ROOM, DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
— from Fifty Glimpses of Washington and Its Neighborhood by Unknown

by Dr. R. Darwin of Shrewsbury; which, as I shall have frequent occasion to refer to, is reprinted in this work, Sect.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin