The latter connection is of great importance to us, for it frequently eliminates difficulties in the explanation of {421} crime.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Coming out of the Court I met Colonell Atkins, who tells me the whole city rings to-day of Sir Jeremy Smith’s killing of Holmes in a duell, at which I was not much displeased, for I fear every day more and more mischief from the man, if he lives; but the thing is not true, for in my coach I did by and by meet Sir Jer.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And what a splendid subject for the contemplation of the moralist is a mighty city which, at every succeeding hour, presents a new phase of interest to the view;—in the morning, when only the industrious and the thrifty are abroad, and while the wealthy and the great are sleeping off the night's pleasure and dissipation:—at noon, when the streets are swarming with life, as if some secret source without the walls poured at that hour myriads of animated streams into the countless avenues and thoroughfares;—in the evening, when the men of pleasure again venture forth, and music, and dancing, and revelry prevail around;—and at night, when every lazar-house vomits forth its filth, every den lets loose its horrors, and every foul court and alley echoes to the footsteps of crime!
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

He reaches the river and follows it for endless days, but the world has arrived.
— from The Hive by Will Levington Comfort

It seems probable that, with ordinary precautions and some reinforcements, the garrisons might have held out in the towns then occupied, provided that the fleet intercepted French expeditions destined for the West Indies; and this ought to have been possible after Howe's victory of 1st June 1794.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

For I find extreme difficulty in refusing applications for so good a work, and my ‘engagements’ are heavy.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

So came the beginnings of that definitive Christian philosophy which was to proceed from Syria, Anatolia and Constantinople, through Alexandria to St. Augustine, and was to find its fullest expression during the Middle Ages and by means of Duns Scotus, Albertus Magnus, Hugh of St. Victor and St. Thomas Aquinas.
— from Towards the Great Peace by Ralph Adams Cram

Coming out of the Court I met Colonell Atkins, who tells me the whole city rings to-day of Sir Jeremy Smith's killing of Holmes in a duell, at which I was not much displeased, for I fear every day more and more mischief from the man, if he lives; but the thing is not true, for in my coach I did by and by meet Sir Jer.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 46: October 1666 by Samuel Pepys

"When the family is fed each day you may dance with the winds and play hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, and when the autumn is here and all your work is done, we ourselves will take you for a pleasure trip.
— from The Sun's Babies by Edith Howes