This connexion, however, has always been to a large extent recognised by all reflective persons.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The two extremes of thought—the materialistic and the platonic—are reconciled in eternal recurrence : both are regarded as ideals.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The chapter might be omitted without any injury to the action of the poem, and besides the metre, style, conceits and images differ from the general tenour of the poem; and that continual repetition of the same sounds at the end of each hemistich which is not exactly rime, but assonance, reveals the artificial labour of a more recent age.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

‘Mr. Tupman!’ exclaimed Rachael, blushing as red as the watering-pot itself.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The man’s mind is sound in every respect but as regards this religious delusion.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

This important and curious narrative is exceedingly rare, but a reprint, although rude and poor, was made in Manila in 1890, which is readily obtainable.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

From the summit, which is easily reached by a rock and concrete stairway, to the silver streak of the Kaweah River at its base, is an almost sheer drop of 4,119 feet.
— from Sequoia [California] National Park by United States. Department of the Interior

He was a dirty, ill-conditioned looking fellow, with no bumps behind his ears, or prominence of eyebrow region, but a remarkable cerebellum.
— from Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. by Joseph Dalton Hooker

Our 'baby road,' in crossing the mountain just described, climbed to a height of nine thousand three hundred and forty feet—at that time the highest point ever reached by a railway; and the first train passed over it on 16th June, 1877.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

end poetry block end rend Brutus, and Richard Plantagenet, and Clarence, and Macbeth, and Manfred, and Lorenzo, and Wallace, and Marmion, are but the archetypes of a very numerous family in real life,—for Shakspere, and Byron, and Schiller, and Scott, have painted in high relief these portraits from the life.
— from The Philosophy of Mystery by Walter Cooper Dendy

Both positions are in their essence right; but as regards each position the more arrogant among the invaders of the new realm of knowledge take an attitude to which it is not necessary to assent.
— from African and European Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

An extremely rare bird, a robin, hopped from his path and continued a fruitless search for insects.
— from Thy Rocks and Rills by Robert E. Gilbert

In a little while, all the barbarous laws that now disgrace the statute books of the States by discriminating against a man simply because he is honest, will be repealed, and there will be one country where all citizens will have and enjoy not only equal rights, but all rights.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

Ladies and gentlemen alike are mostly in morning dress, distinguished in appearance, and guided in every respect by a refined decorum.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

The stories told there could have rightly been called the ‘Chronicle of the Congress,’ and even the ‘Chronicles of Europe’; everybody of note, or of erewhile renown, being apparently responsible for his doings and sayings to the jurisdiction of the caustic Areopagus of that tavern.
— from Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna by La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de