And here we go, now, just as straight as a string for Hallelujah—it’s a beautiful angle—handsome up grade all the way—and then away you go to Corruptionville, the gaudiest country for early carrots and cauliflowers that ever—good missionary field, too.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Since education is a social process, and there are many kinds of societies, a criterion for educational criticism and construction implies a particular social ideal.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

His whole family, by the freedom, ease, confidence, and calm enjoyment, diffused over their countenances, sufficiently express their happiness.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

The fourteenth epistle contains a curious narrative of the dangers of his journey.
— 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

The surrounding precipices were lit up by a thousand alarm fires; every crag and cliff had its flames, by the light of which they beheld their foes bounding from rock to rock, and looking more like fiends than mortal men.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

A fine lady, on the contrary, has been taught to look down with contempt on the vulgar employments of life; though she has only been incited to acquire accomplishments that rise a degree above sense; for even corporeal accomplishments cannot be acquired with any degree of precision, unless the understanding has been strengthened by exercise.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

She wrote a German biography of Elizabeth Fry. Kahn , David Isaac, a physician at Uhlefeld, called afterwards "Christfreund," received Christian literature from the Mission at Halle, and this alone was the cause of his and his whole family embracing Christianity at Cadolzburg in 1739.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Hereupon Josephus told them that he took their good-will to him kindly, but still he restrained their fury, and intended to subdue his enemies by prudent conduct, rather than by slaying them; so he excepted those of every city which had joined in this revolt with John, by name, who had readily been shown him by these that came from every city, and caused public proclamation to be made, that he would seize upon the effects of those that did not forsake John within five days' time, and would burn both their houses and their families with fire.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

It was with no little surprise at the very outset that I discovered that the walls and floor of the beautiful passage through which the Soodopsies were leading Bulger and me were of pure silver, the former being composed of polished panels ornamented with finely executed chasings and carvings, and the latter, as had in fact all the floors and streets and passages of the city having upon their polished surfaces slightly raised characters which I will explain later.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Every year a body of municipal or county magistrates—called "selectmen" in New England, "supervisors" in New York, "trustees" in Ohio, and "sheriffs of the parish" in Louisiana—choose for each county a certain number of citizens who have the right of serving as jurymen, and who are supposed to be capable of exercising their functions.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

I smiled, and drew repeated draughts of the pure essence deep into my lungs, filling every cranny and corner again and again.
— from A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey

Three of them were given up to decay, and desolation peered from every corner and crevice.
— from Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches by George Paul Goff

For every cry and canker, you will be held responsible in the sight of God.
— from Osceola the Seminole; or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid

These figures have been gathered, at great expense, from every clime and country, and are here shown together for the first time.
— from Entertainments for Home, Church and School by Frederica Seeger

If you kill one of these, and place it in the centre of the cabin, parties of ants troop in from every direction—I might say, a regiment from each clan; and consequently there is a great deal of fighting and squabbling, and not much is done, except that the cockroach is usually devoured on the spot.
— from Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables

Follow, ensue, come afterwards, come subsequently.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

[1173] “Porqué seria mala burla yr á meter fuego en casa agena, començandose á arder la propria.”— Ibid. , 597: Alva to Philip II, November 6, 1567.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

His is a perpetual struggle with storms and mutinies and his flashing eyes convey a courage one has to take into account.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

Now licking the quivering masts, now blown aside in tongue-shaped jets, the lambent flame spurted from every crack and crevice, leaped up from every port-hole of that splendid steamer.
— from The House Under the Sea: A Romance by Max Pemberton