It must see into the laws, the operation, the intellectual reward of every divided form of culture; but only that it may measure the relation between itself and them.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

How close she has come to this sin is easily discoverable from the degree of intensity with which she accuses her husband.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The dilemma seems obvious: As justice evidently tends to promote public utility and to support civil society, the sentiment of justice is either derived from our reflecting on that tendency, or like hunger, thirst, and other appetites, resentment, love of life, attachment to offspring, and other passions, arises from a simple original instinct in the human breast, which nature has implanted for like salutary purposes.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

so because he was himself in danger every day from his friendship with him, and the observance he paid him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

In every street there are great halls, that lie at an equal distance from each other, distinguished by particular names.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

God had ordered the Jews to demand these as their pay and reward, during their long and bitter slavery in Egypt, as atonements for the lives of the Egyptians, and as the condition of the Jews' departure, and of the Egyptians' deliverance from these terrible judgments, which, had they not now ceased, they had soon been all dead men, as they themselves confess, ch. 12.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

5 cohors praetoria : a corps d’élite , specially organised as a bodyguard of the general ( praetor = praeitor , prae + eo ), dating from the time when the praetores was the older name of the consuls (= colleagues ).
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The one curious point which rather seems to tell against Planché's theory is that in the earliest "rolls" of arms but a comparatively small proportion of the arms are found to consist of these rectilinear figures, and if the ordinaries really originated in strengthening cross-pieces one would have expected a larger number of such coats of arms to be found; but at the same time such arms would, in many cases, in themselves be so palpably mere meaningless decoration of cross-pieces upon plain shields, that the resulting design would not carry with it such a compulsory remembrance as would a design, for example, derived from lines which had plainly had no connection with the construction of the shield.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

This is, however, not so alarming, because it is certain, even from the little I know about them, that the natives do not essentially differ from the other Massim.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Here the difference of sex is expressed by a difference of termination; Page 218 {218} the words genitor and genitrix being in a true etymological relation, i. e. , either derived from each other, or from some common source.
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Alone in the midst of the throng, 'Mid the lights and the splendor alone, Her eyes, dropped for shame of her wrong, She lifts not to eyes she has known: Around her the whirl and the stir Of the light-footing dancers she hears; None seeks her; no whisper for her Of the gracious words filling her ears.
— from Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells

"We may as well put in the entire day, for buying a steam yacht is not to be disposed of too lightly."
— from Dick Hamilton's Steam Yacht; Or, A Young Millionaire and the Kidnappers by Howard Roger Garis

They had cut out trails and roads in every direction from one to another of the many settlements.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt

But in other cases Herrad either composed herself or else drew from models which were nearer to her in time and place.
— from Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 by Lina Eckenstein

This was entirely distinct from the main building, and the service was performed by a separate establishment of slaves.
— from Lords of the World: A story of the fall of Carthage and Corinth by Alfred John Church

We moved and the same exquisite caution we had exercised upon entering, for we couldn't afford to have Dan Jackson's keen old ears detect footfalls overhead at that hour of the morning.
— from Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler