He may, indeed, remember that he is dealing with a neighbor of the race which gave us not only Christ, but all the accepted prophets who have shaped our own course, and his understanding helps to cast down the barriers of instinctive prejudice.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In dealing with a native community at the stage of development which we find in the Trobriands, we cannot expect to obtain a definite, precise and abstract statement from a philosopher, belonging to the community itself.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

They were just everyday questions like these, and when you could not answer them you were told to make a cross; and it was really dreadful what a number of crosses even John made.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The captain's peculiarities were not confined to his external appearance; for his voice resembled the sound of a bassoon, or the aggregate hum of a whole bee-hive, and his discourse was almost nothing else than a series of quotations from the English poets, interlarded with French phrases, which he retained for their significance, on the recommendation of his friends, being himself unacquainted with that or any other outlandish tongue.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

A full military band, too, which accompanies only Head Quarter Divisions, was a novelty at York; as previous to this year Niagara, and not York, was regarded as Military head quarters.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Miss Squeers had been spending a few days with a neighbouring friend, and had only just returned to the parental roof.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

1a player on a team used for minor duties which are not significant enough to warrant the expenditure of a major team member.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

in diameter with a neck and fuelled with kerosene.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

One day, when a neighbor's boy came for some eggs, and she spoke rather crossly to him, as she was very busy, her husband suddenly came in and said to her in his unpleasant voice: “If that were your own child you would not treat him so.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

This obviously requires that they should all be taken to pieces and then lashed, caulked and painted exactly as is done with a new canoe.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Whatever he writes has the true ring; there is nothing transcendental in him, and no mannerism; his sentiments are spontaneous, and flow into his diction with a naturalness that takes hold of the heart of the reader at once, like a peaceful streamlet mingling its waters with kindred waves.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

The generous heart which would risk all, sacrifice all, lavish all, in the cause of justice and for the rescue of a man—not her lover, but a worthless husband's cousin—from an ignominious and undeserved death, will assuredly not hesitate to save her erring mother even at the risk of her own life.
— from The Orange Girl by Walter Besant

To him every day was a new life and a new joy, and whatever money he made he spent on strangers and friends.
— from Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá

It may be done without any new wound, and, in general, by an ordinary surgeon's saw.
— from A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

It was dismal within and not less gloomy without, but we welcomed that, for it 176 would mean that few persons would be prowling about.
— from With Force and Arms: A Tale of Love and Salem Witchcraft by Howard Roger Garis

A boy kindly brought us some dry wood, and notwithstanding the rain, our lamp succeeded upon the second trial, and our kettle was soon boiling for tea.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

For this Drummond was a note-taker; he was a smooth but not strong poet; was something proud of his Scotch lairdship; lived in a beautiful home seated upon a crag that lifts above the beautiful valley of Eskdale; its picturesque irregularities of tower and turret are still very charming, and Eskdale is charming with its wooded walks, cliffs, pools, and bridges; Roslin Castle is near by, and Roslin Chapel, and so is Dalkeith.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 2: From Elizabeth to Anne by Donald Grant Mitchell

According to the accounts of the Jesuits, he took umbrage because a Portuguese captain would not please him by risking his ship in coming out of deep water and nearer land, and because there were Christian maidens of Arima who scorned to yield to his degrading proposals.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

"There is mighty little to be done with a nose like mine unless I have paraffin injected under the skin right on top.
— from Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman by Emma Speed Sampson