They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The ordinary controls of civilized life—regard for truth, regard for law, respect for neighbors, obedience to good manners, love of God—cease to operate effectively, because the propaganda-dizzy man sees in everything its propaganda content and nothing else.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Then she went all round the table to see who was there, and finding no one but me, she seemed bewildered.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

She had failed not only to create a new society that satisfied her, but even to hold her own in the old society of Church or State; and was left, for the most part, with no place but the theatre or streets to decorate.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

For it is as great a crime Pro. 17. (as Salomon sayeth,) To condemne the innocent, as to let the guiltie escape free ; neither ought the report of any [pg 079] one infamous person, be admitted for a sufficient proofe, which can stand of no law.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

He was simply now one of them himself—he was in the dust, without a peg for the sense of difference; and there were hours when, before the temples of gods and the sepulchres of kings, his spirit turned for nobleness of association to the barely discriminated slab in the London suburb.
— from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

The old religions and moralities are shattered [Pg 915] and men are waiting and striving for new ones.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The idea of destruction, a more complex matter, does not have so great an effect; the thought of death affects us later and less forcibly, for no one knows from his own experience what it is to die; you must have seen corpses to feel the agonies of the dying.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For no one were those days of waiting easy.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Shere Khan’s plan is to wait for thee at the village gate this evening—for thee and for no one else.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Morton sprang in, bawling furiously, "None o' them rough-and-tumble tricks."
— from Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Sinclair Lewis

Hence it was that Martin, a-tingle though he was with curiosity, found no opportunity to run aloft into the sunshine and view the place he had talked and dreamed so much about.
— from Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer

It was full, nevertheless, of pithy, bold, and vigorous expressions, and needed only that its hardy stock should receive the grafts of sunnier and softer climes, to bear abundant and beautiful fruit.
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews

They drove to Georgetown, a short distance beyond which she spent her first night of exile, (Salona Hall, the Smoot place).
— from Dorothy Payne, Quakeress: A Side-Light Upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison by Ella K. (Ella Kent) Barnard

[Pg 44] but soon some lively fellow whistles an air, somebody else starts a song, the whole column breaks out with roars of laughter; "route step" takes the place of order, and the jolly singing, laughing, talking, and joking that follows no one could describe.
— from Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Carlton McCarthy

Algiers, La., sir, right across from New Orleans.
— from Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

But, then, is the desolation to come to be accomplished also, like "the advance of the many warriors," before "a full number of moons is completed"— i. e. , within a year?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848 by Various

The fluid nature of basalt magma allows it to travel great distances from the vent (the place where lava breaks ground) and tends to build volcanoes in the shape of an inverted warrior shield, with slopes less than about 10 degrees.
— from Volcanoes of the United States by Steven R. Brantley