Even the head is confined by a cap.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don’t know any act of parliament that’s equal to him in clearness.’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

In fact, each totem has its centre at some definite spot.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

He indeed had good reason to be offended; for though Dr. Swinfen's motive was good, he inconsiderately betrayed a matter deeply interesting and of great delicacy, which had been entrusted to him in confidence; and exposed a complaint of his young friend and patient, which, in the superficial opinion of the generality of mankind, is attended with contempt and disgrace.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

This arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

'A written bulletin is handed out every three hours,' is copied and circulated; in the end, it is printed.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“I did not tell you yesterday,” she began, breathing quickly and painfully, “that coming home with Alexey Alexandrovitch I told him everything ... told him I could not be his wife, that ... and told him everything.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Indeed, the direction I had hitherto taken, had filled me with uneasiness; for it was evident that, had I continued it much longer, there would have been no possibility of my arriving at the moon at all, whose orbit is inclined to the ecliptic at only the small angle of 5 degrees 8’ 48”.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

The problem, however, is far too complicated to be discussed here; and one may briefly say that there seems to have been a time in the evolution of [Pg 244] animism when the ancient Celts of Britain, of Ireland, and of Continental Europe too, held, in common with the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Teutons, an original Aryan doctrine.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

In the report of the result, the council says that it believes the candidate to be generally sound in his belief, and exemplary in his Christian spirit, and heartily extends to him its Christian sympathy.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

By trial-and error experience, the highly intelligent child has to work out an adjustment if he can, but there is likely to be noticeable difficulty if he tests above 170 IQ.
— from Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development by Leta Stetter Hollingworth

I’ve seen a flower, or heard some trivial word or two, which have awakened recollections that somehow had lain dormant for scores of years; and when I entered the house in Clarges Street, where I was born (it was used as a gambling-house when I first visited London), all of a sudden the memory of my childhood came back to me—of my actual infancy: I recollected my father in green and gold, holding me up to look at a gilt coach which stood at the door, and my mother in a flowered sack, with patches on her face.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Sir, that is a secret,” replied our wise man, “which I shall trust to you alone;” and he whispered into Mr. Marshal’s ear that his information came from Bampfylde the second, king of the gipsies.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

Even in the evening they hunted in couples, because she was sick of Bridge, she said, and he gave out that he knew nothing at all about any card games and had no desire to learn.
— from The Sins of the Children: A Novel by Cosmo Hamilton

He either does not read the episodes that he is called upon to il­lus­trate, or, if he reads them, he does not grasp their meaning, or, if he grasps their meaning, the meaning does not meet with his approval.
— from Suppressed Plates, Wood-engravings, &c. Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto; Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector by George Somes Layard

[680] Exercitia, Tertia Hebdomada , ii. Contemplatio (p. 157).
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

The spiritual enthusiast is not easy to hold in check, once he has been aroused!"
— from The Mystics: A Novel by Katherine Cecil Thurston