Both forms of media critique one another and proclaim their superiority.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

They generally follow the marumakkatāyam principle, but they have also a form of marriage called Kudivekkal similar to the Brahman Sarvasvadhānam, by which the wife is adopted as a member of the family into which she marries, and her children also belong to it.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The formula, once made, could be but verified.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

“If I am not mistaken, you are even holding on to the folds of my cloak?” “Also true.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

'Indeed, Sir, he does, and loves you.' Thinking that I now had him in a corner, and being solicitous for the literary fame of my country, I pressed him for his opinion on the merit of Dr. Robertson's History of Scotland.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

saw a vast number of buffaloe feeding in every direction arround us in the plains, others coming down in large herds to water at the river; the fragments of many carcases of these poor anamals daily pass down the river, thus mangled I pesume in decending those immence cataracts above us.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The former faculty has been long defined by logicians as the faculty of mediate conclusion in contradistinction to immediate conclusions (consequentiae immediatae); but the nature of the latter, which itself generates conceptions, is not to be understood from this definition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

This form of Machiavellism, carried to a point probably never dreamt of by the Italian philosopher, has run through the whole struggle of Prussia for supremacy and at the same time through each outbreak of world revolution in which Prussian influence has played a part.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

I have not a single piece of gold lace too much; my weapon is costly, but simply wrought; the fur on my cap is neither too long nor too short; my leggings and shoes are matched with all possible accuracy; my tunic is white; my Circassian jacket, dark-brown.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Get on yer own ruddy 'orse." "Which of you blokes 'as pinched my lance?" "Take yer 'orse's foot off my carbine."
— from Hector Graeme by Evelyn Brentwood

By the Rev. Edward Nares, A.M., Rector of Biddenden, Kent, and late Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 123, March 6, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

There is a little graveyard in front of Maberley Chapel, Ball’s Pond (now called Earlham Hall), but the three tombstones that are left in it are not only put upon the north wall of the chapel, but have actually been painted with the wall.
— from The London Burial Grounds Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Isabella M. Holmes

Now that the dynamo gives the possibility of producing an electric current by the combustion of fuel, this method of Sir H. Davy is advantageously employed for obtaining metals, &c. on a large scale, for instance, sodium from fused caustic soda or chlorine from solutions of salt.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Perhaps, too—for I must tell you everything; I do not wish to hide from you any little failings of my character—perhaps, too, the naïvete of my coquetry (to use your own expression), for which you have often scolded me, has been at work unconsciously.
— from Abbé Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper Mérimée

These were designed for very luxurious and expensive books; for others, men contented themselves with a bald simplicity, which has prevailed till our own time.
— from Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang

Hopeless husbands and wives were cast up like driftwood by the cruel, resistless flood of modern civilization—the very civilization which yielded their wealth and luxury.
— from The Inside of the Cup — Complete by Winston Churchill

To regulate Dealers in Old Iron, Metals, Stores, Old Wearing Apparel, Founders of Metals, &c. by Licence, 304 To improve the Laws relative to the prevention of Pillage and Plunder in the River Thames—See River Plunder .
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

I went forth on my customary walk a trifle daunted, her idol-like impassivity haunting me; and when I returned, although she was still in much the same posture, I was half surprised to see that she had moved as far as the next pillar, following the sunshine.
— from The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson

Only the face of Mr. Czenki was impassive.
— from The Diamond Master by Jacques Futrelle