At eight we landed again, and travelled by a stage-coach for four hours through a pleasant and well-cultivated country, perfectly French in every respect: in the appearance of the cottages; the air, language, and dress of the peasantry; the sign-boards on the shops and taverns: and the Virgin’s shrines, and crosses, by the wayside.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

For this reason the character of gentleman, in the sense to which I have confined it, is frequent in England, rare in France, and found, where it is found, in age or the latest period of manhood; while in Germany the character is almost unknown.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

She had pictures of Mr. Fox in every room in the house: when that statesman was in opposition, I am not sure that she had not flung a main with him; and when he came into office, she took great credit for bringing over to him Sir Pitt and his colleague for Queen's Crawley, although Sir Pitt would have come over himself, without any trouble on the honest lady's part.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

In a word, a symbol needs to remain transparent and to become adequate; failing in either respect, it misses its function.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It will be seen that the pips add up fifteen in every row in every column, and in each of the two long diagonals.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Such practices could be found in every religion, in every philosophical sect of the time.
— from Interpretations of Poetry and Religion by George Santayana

With reference to the opinion expressed by writers of authority, and especially by Engler, 13 that the Andean flora is exceptionally rich in endemic genera and species, and to the explanation which would account for the facts, first, by the greater facility afforded for the extension of new varieties in dry climates, where the soil is not continuously covered by the existing vegetation; and, secondly, by the isolation of the summits, favouring the development of special local forms, I may venture on some sceptical remarks.
— from Notes of a naturalist in South America by John Ball

He had not been a fool in every respect, it was true; he hadn’t been fresh, or boastful about himself, and he had not done things flagrantly wrong, but he saw clearly that many of his judgments had been mistaken.
— from The Yale Cup by Albertus T. (Albertus True) Dudley

The night we left this place was one of the most fearful I ever remember; it had been threatening all the afternoon, and about eight the simoom came on with dreadful violence, blowing for five minutes at a time, at intervals of twenty minutes or so, until we got under weigh, at half-past twelve.
— from Campaign of the Indus In a Series of Letters from an Officer of the Bombay Division by T. W. E. Holdsworth

We have seen smoke without fire in every room in a most delightful Cottage we inhabited during the dog-days.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

The purely speculative metaphysics which was built up on Kant's apriorism, and which found its extreme representative in Hegel, came at length to reject the empirical method altogether, and insisted that all knowledge is obtained by pure reason, independently of experience.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel

Amongst the French, dancing is that strong and prevailing passion which is found in every rank in society, which is confined to no sex, nor age, nor figure, but is universally disseminated throughout every portion of the kingdom; from the cottage to the court, from the cradle to the grave, the French invariably dance when they can seize an opportunity.
— from Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Patrick Fraser Tytler