After watching for some time the singular effect produced by the lights in the town reflected in the water, and weary with a long day of anticipation and excitement, I made up my mind to leave the deck and retire to rest.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

It is impossible to describe the thrilling effect produced by this striking ceremony.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

By the force of a whole group of acquired habits and of language itself, we are inclined to consider the common man, the simple believer, as an essentially profane being.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

“Oi've heard, zur, that the Jews never eat pork; but we Christians dooz, and are right glad ov the chance.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

In half-an-hour he was out of the hills, and under the stars of Estes Park, but he saw no prospect of supper or of bed.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Crest: on a wreath of the colours, a representation of the front of a locomotive engine proper, between two wings or.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

and that, too, not only in its position, form, and boundaries, nor those parts of it only which are habitable, but those also that lie uncultivated, through the extremities of heat and cold to which they are exposed; for not even now is it with our eyes that we view what we see, for the body itself has no senses; but (as the naturalists, ay, and even the physicians assure us, who have opened our bodies, and examined them) there are certain perforated channels from the seat of the soul to the eyes, ears, and nose; so that frequently, when either prevented by meditation, or the force of some bodily disorder, we neither hear nor see, though our eyes and ears are open and in good condition; so that we may easily apprehend that it is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul, by means of which, however, she can perceive nothing, unless she is on the spot, and exerts herself.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Materials for growth and repair not being, like those which plants require, everywhere present, but being widely dispersed and under special forms, have to be formed, to be secured, and to be reduced to a fit state for assimilation....
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

The emperor, provoked by the insult, and alarmed by the instant danger, suddenly exerted that latent vigor which sometimes broke through the indolence of his temper.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

A third does not object to the government over individuals, or to the extent proposed, but to the want of a bill of rights.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

—Bismuth appears to be excreted principally by the bowels as sulphide of bismuth; but it has also been detected in the urine, spleen, and liver; and Lubinsky has found it in the saliva and in the epithelium of the mouth of persons taking one of its preparations.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

Now, I believe that if ever a soul in the world is entitled to the enjoyment or realization of that saying, of the Son of God this good woman is entitled to it; for I believe, according to her knowledge, she was true to every principle by which she might fulfil the intent of it and by which she may receive the verification of it in the world to come.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

"Too much of it, mayhap, would be," admitted Rocelia; "but a little of it should serve well in rounding out our minds, and in providing us with that sane discretion which, as you remember, Lord Bishop Kennedy, our kind tutor, has taught us is the most precious of earthly perquisites." "Bah! a murrain upon Bishop Kennedy and his dry pedantries.
— from The Red Tavern by C. R. (Charles Raymond) Macauley

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— from Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land by Charles Godfrey Leland

Will you then take a seat—a seat, my dear Eliza.' “'I fear I cannot, sir; you know there is no one else to keep an eye to the bar.' “'The business of the bar, my dear girl, is over for this night; but not, I trust—sincerely trust—that of the sweet barmaid; do sit, Eliza, pray be seated, and let me have a word with you in season; thank you, but not at such a distance, Eliza, such an inconvenient distance; I say inconvenient—because—ugh, ugh, I have caught a slight cold—as a trial it came—and I will receive it so, that has fallen for the time—ugh, ugh, ugh—upon my lungs, and renders it a good deal troublesome to me to speak loud; so that the nearer you sit—and it has affected my head a little, only with a slight deafness, though, which—were you speaking, my dear?' “'No, sir.' “'Yes, so I thought, you were saying something—will soon pass away.'
— from Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

Industries: fish processing and supply base for fishing fleets; tourism Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity - production: 40 million kWh (1998) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1998) Electricity - consumption: 37 million kWh (1998) Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998) Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998) Agriculture - products: vegetables; poultry, cattle, sheep, pigs; fish Exports: $5 million (f.o.b., 1997) Exports - commodities: fish and fish products, mollusks and crustaceans, fox and mink pelts Exports - partners: US, France, UK, Canada, Portugal Imports: $66 million (c.i.f., 1997 est.)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

We settled ourselves on a good-sized farm in a fertile district of Ontario, and there we had an experience probably broadly resembling that of many new arrivals—sometimes amusing, sometimes vexatious, or worse.
— from Canada and the British immigrant by Emily P. (Emily Poynton) Weaver