For centuries Spain had been the centre of civilization, the seat of arts and sciences, of learning, and every form of refined enlightenment.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

[307] Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life , pp. 432-37.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

From her infancy, she had been surrounded with servants, who lived only to study her caprices; the idea that they had either feelings or rights had never dawned upon her, even in distant perspective.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Galamhan nga gisugkay sa túmang pagbásul, Thoughts that were disturbed by extreme feelings of repentance.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“Touch-downs” were then unknown, but it is evident from old records that “scrimmages” and “hacking” were much in vogue.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

He remembered that during his epileptic fits, or rather immediately preceding them, he had always experienced a moment or two when his whole heart, and mind, and body seemed to wake up to vigour and light; when he became filled with joy and hope, and all his anxieties seemed to be swept away for ever; these moments were but presentiments, as it were, of the one final second (it was never more than a second) in which the fit came upon him.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[212] Harbrough, with all the tenements and key adjoining, and appurtenances, sometime pertaining to Robert de Hereford, on the way called Hay wharf lane, etc., for one rose at Midsummer, to him and to his heirs for all services, if the same were demanded.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Gradually less calmness prevails; here and there a flash of lightning defines the horizon; exceedingly unpleasant truths break upon your ears from out remote distances with a dull, rumbling sound,—until very soon a fierce tempo is attained in which everything presses forward at a terrible degree of tension.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“That is easily found out,” replied Pencroft.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

She had been dominated by distress and the enthusiastic forces of relief which Drouet represented at an opportune moment when she yielded to him.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

But James sat there seeing visions—of Winifred in the Divorce Court, and the family name in the papers; of the earth falling on Roger's coffin; of Val taking after his father; of the pearls he had paid for and would never see again; of money back at four per cent., and the country going to the dogs; and, as the afternoon wore into evening, and tea-time passed, and dinnertime, those visions became more and more mixed and menacing—of being told nothing, till he had nothing left of all his wealth, and they told him nothing of it.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Solomon's great hand flew out from his side, and clutched a rung as a dog's teeth close upon a bone; a dog's growl, too, half triumph and half threat, came from his deep chest; then he began slowly to ascend, keeping his eyes fixed on Richard.
— from Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel by James Payn

True, some of the stock views of antiquity, by which it will be earnestly opposed, are themselves far more destitute of foundation in either fact or reason; but this will make no difference, as the habit of never allowing them to be subjected to the searching power of reason does [183] not permit such persons either to believe or deny any thing connected with this topic in a reasonable manner.
— from Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin

Subsequently there were held other conferences, between the Prince and Doctor Leoninus, with a similar result, all attempts proving fruitless to induce him to abandon his position upon the subject of religion, or to accept a pardon on any terms save the departure of the foreign troops, the assembling of the estates-general, and entire freedom of religion.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley

The statute 1 James I, c. 12, condemned to death “all persons invoking any evil spirits, or consulting, covenanting with, entertaining, employing, feeding, or rewarding any evil spirit” or generally practising any “infernal arts.”
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

Ten years later I could say: God, virtue, immortality—these three are the eternal foundation of religion.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

[415] partiality for esoterism, which is more or less present in every form of religion or cult prevailing in Tibet, and it therefore included in its system certain esoteric forms as distinct from the esoterism of the Old Sect.
— from Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi

That is great enough for one report; but I have another.
— from Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

And when after supper was over and they were all gathered around the comfortable fireside, and Herbert related the adventures and feats of Capitola at the Hidden House, and in the forest chapel, the old man grasped the hand of his favorite and with his stormy old eyes full of rain said: "You deserve to have been a man, Cap!
— from Capitola the Madcap by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth