There were boys of fifteen who had spent a day and a half on an islet in the middle of a flooded river, taking charge, as by right, of a camp of frantic pilgrims returning from a shrine.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

District nurses, sick-diet kitchens, dispensaries, hospitals, etc. Society for suppression of vice, prisoner's aid society, etc. F.— Public Relief Forces. Almshouses.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

No matter if my work is unusual, no matter if it is unfit, for prudential reasons, for their pages, surely there must be some sparks in it, somewhere, a few, to warm them to some sort of appreciation.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Searching about in his mind for possible reasons for their conduct, he came upon the conclusion that Maggie's motives were correct, but that the two others wished to snare him.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

Good drinking coffees are to be had for prices ranging from twenty-five to thirty cents.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Rizal personally had been fortunate, for in company with the commandant and a Spaniard, originally deported for political reasons from the Peninsula, he had gained one of the richer prizes in the government lottery.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

A good method of teaching observation while on a hike or tramp is to have each boy jot down in a small note-book or diary of the trip, the different kinds of trees, birds, animals, tracks, nature of roads, fences, peculiar rock formation, smells of plants, etc., and thus be able to tell what he saw or heard to the boys upon his return to the permanent camp or to his home.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

I do not indeed as yet discern on what this respect is based (this the philosopher may inquire), but at least I understand this, that it is an estimation of the worth which far outweighs all worth of what is recommended by inclination, and that the necessity of acting from pure respect for the practical law is what constitutes duty, to which every other motive must give place, because it is the condition of a will being good in itself, and the worth of such a will is above everything.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

Her only companion and attendant, Old Tiff, had that quaint, fanciful, grotesque nature which is the furthest possible removed from vulgarity; and his frequent lectures on proprieties and conventionalities, his long and prolix narrations of her ancestral glories and distinctions, had succeeded in infusing into her a sort of childish consciousness of dignity, while at the same time it inspired her with a bashful awe of those whom she saw surrounded with the actual insignia and circumstances of position and fortune.
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe

There were a few civilians, French people, returning from America for purposes important only to them.
— from The Little Moment of Happiness by Clarence Budington Kelland

My enthusiasm for prehistoric research failed me just then.
— from A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Another fact, however, remains—another fortress, perhaps, reared facing the other.
— from Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas by Remy de Gourmont

AS A FOOTMAN. P reparations for the supper party had already commenced when Walter arrived at Mr. Tankard's.
— from Chetwynd Calverley New Edition, 1877 by William Harrison Ainsworth

[74] Achelous and other rivers are there to show that the Nile is no freak of nature; time future can be postulated to the extent of twenty thousand years; and time past may be measured on the same scale, for the perfecting of the Nile’s gift, not to mention the further periods required for the deposit of the shells in the Pyramid limestone.
— from Anthropology and the Classics Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford by Gilbert Murray

Committee on Religious Observances: Rev. Frank A. Johnson, chairman; Rev. John F. Plumb, Rev. Frank B. Draper, Rev. T. J. Cronin, Rev. J. J. Burke, Rev. Marmaduke Hare, Rev. {130} Stephen Heacock, Rev. H. K. Smith, Rev. S. D. Woods, Rev. T. J. Lee.
— from Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences by Various

Rathke discussed this archetype and its relation to the vertebral theory of the skull in another paper of the same year (1839), but before going on to this paper, we shall quote from the paper on the adder the following passage, remarkable for the clear way in which the idea of the embryological archetype is expressed.
— from Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

But it seems to me that she has them—to use a financial phrase recently familiar—too much "on tap.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury