To me he appears an extraordinary dull fellow, and to want common sense.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

But it is certain that it would have been excessively dangerous for an ordinary layman to do so.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

a mass said either daily for a year after, or yearly on the anniversary of a person’s death, NED; anuell , S3.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

If we consider aright of the matter, force is not essentially different from any other motive of hope or fear, which may induce us to engage our word, and lay ourselves under any obligation.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

According to the view taken in a previous chapter, [303] in affirming Ultimate Good to be Happiness or Pleasure, we imply (1) that nothing is desirable except desirable feelings, and (2) that the desirability of each feeling is only directly cognisable by the sentient individual at the time of feeling it, and that therefore this particular judgment of the sentient individual must be taken as final
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

And as I dwell on what I myself heard or saw of the mighty Westerner, and blend it with the history and literature of my age, and of what I can get of all ages, and conclude it with his death, it seems like some tragic play, superior to all else I know—vaster and fierier and more convulsionary, for this America of ours, than Eschylus or Shakspere ever drew for Athens or for England.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

These three principles are the three corner stones of heredity as we know it today, the principles of the independent unit-characters each derived from a determiner in the germ plasm.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

She went every day for a week, and stood in the same place.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

A Yokaia mother who has lost her babe goes every day for a year to some place where her little one played while alive, or to the spot where its body was burned, and milks her breasts into the air.
— from The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

ut ad ipsum Dominum nostrum ex toto et puro corde convertantur cum debita contrictione de peccatis commissis et proposito confitendi temporibus et loco opportunis et ab eisdem de futuro abstinendi et de cetero
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

“I’ll tell you in a minute; you see I’ve got everything down fine, and I’ve made some changes in our plans.”
— from The Campers Out; Or, The Right Path and the Wrong by Edward Sylvester Ellis

In the brilliantly-coloured P. deliciosa the first three secondaries are thick-stemmed and curved towards the body; in the fourth and fifth (Fig. 45, a) the change is greater; and in the sixth and seventh (b, c) the shaft "is thickened to an extraordinary degree, forming a solid horny lump."
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

This protracting, slow consuming illness, will, I doubt much, my ever dear friend, arrest my sun before he has reached his middle career, and will turn over the poet to far more important concerns than studying the brilliancy of wit or the pathos of sentiment."
— from Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp

Their eggs differ from any of the preceding in having a salmon-colored ground.
— from Bird Guide: Land Birds East of the Rockies, from Parrots to Bluebirds by Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed

And then these finds served as so many springs which, turned on by a question, played off an essay on Jean Goujon, Michel Columb, Germain Pilon, Boulle, Van Huysum, and Boucher, the great native painter of Le Berry; on Clodion, the carver of wood, on Venetian mirrors, on Brustolone, an Italian tenor who was the Michael-Angelo of boxwood and holm oak; on the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, on the glazes of Bernard de Palissy, the enamels of Petitot, the engravings of Albrecht Durer—whom she called Dur; on illuminations on vellum, on Gothic architecture, early decorated, flamboyant and pure—enough to turn an old man’s brain and fire a young man with enthusiasm.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Yet unwilling to give up, Jerry spent over two hours in Brooklyn, hunting in every direction for a clew.
— from The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview by Edward Stratemeyer

See how his pointed spears bristle out in every direction, forming a fine coat of mail ( Fig. 362 ).
— from Indoor and Outdoor Recreations for Girls by Lina Beard

The act of offering some fragments of roasted nuts, in order to see your wife put her white hand in the trap, is certainly exceedingly delicate, for a woman is certain to be on her guard; nevertheless, we reckon upon at least three kinds of mouse-traps: The Irresistible , The Fallacious , and that which is Touch and Go .
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Part 2 by Honoré de Balzac