The general nature of these changes is indicated by the fact that the growth of cities has been accompanied by the substitution of indirect, "secondary," for direct, face-to-face, "primary" relations in the associations of individuals in the community.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Five people rushed into the gate of the mansions as three people rushed out, and for an instant they all deafened each other.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

My thoughts on former pleasures ran; I thought of Kilve's delightful shore, My pleasant home, when spring began, A long, long year before.
— from Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) by William Wordsworth

[ Si totum quo regnum occupârunt tempus respicias, præsertim quod fini propius, reperies illud bellis, pugnis, injuriis, ac rapinis refertum, (Al Jannabi, apud Pocock, p. 31.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Sometimes when I've felt particularly radiant I've thought, why should this be wasted on one man? CECELIA:
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

For the color of the fruit, when it has fully ripened, is black; 26 and what was left of them, from the funeral pile, reposed in the same urn.”
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Those who have experienced fasting and a rigorous life for a prescribed period affirm that there results a changed condition, physical, mental, and spiritual, so that it is very probable that the Christian pilgrims to the Purgatory, like the pagan pilgrims who ‘fasted on’ the Tuatha De Danann in New Grange, were in good condition to receive impressions of a psychical nature such as the Society for Psychical Research is beginning to believe are by no means rare to people susceptible to them.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The dear ideas where I fly pursue, Rise in the grove, before the altar rise, Stain all my soul, and wanton in my eyes.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Cavite province has always been, since the opening of the Suez Canal, about 1869, [ 263 ] and the agitations for political reform in Spain which culminated in the Spanish republic of 1873, quickened the thought of Spain’s East Indies, the home of insurrection, the breeding place of political agitation.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

742 Christ came to teach men not to look for present reward in the form of increased material welfare, but to do good out of love to God and one's neighbour.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

But she readily found relief from present reality in the world of pure romance.
— from Home Lights and Shadows by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

The Chiefs and Braves having seated themselves in a semicircle, the centre of which was occupied by Tamenund, the Great Medicine pipe was first passed round in silence, and with the accustomed solemnities, after which Tamenund arose, and in a voice feeble from age, but distinctly audible, proceeded to explain to the assembly the affairs respecting which they had met to consult: while he was speaking, one of the Indians appointed to guard the entrance of the council lodge, came in and announced a messenger from the Osage encampment.
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

I'd do anything rather than let that young villain Cumberland have her, and make her miserable, which his wife is safe to be, if ever he gets one; and if you likes her and she likes you, as seems wery probable, considering you saved her from being burnt to death, as they tell me, and is wery good-looking into the bargain—which goes a great way with young ladies, if you'll excuse the liberty I takes in mentioning of it—why, the best thing as you can do, is to get married as soon as you can.” “Very pleasant advice, friend Peter,” returned I, “but not so easily acted upon; people cannot marry nowadays without something to live upon.”
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

Their want of sympathy, as a general rule, for popular rights, is known throughout the world, and in this country that repugnance received an enduring impulse from the unanimity with which a vast majority of both classes banded themselves on the side of power, in the stormy time of the first Adams, and from the bitterness with which they railed from the bench and the pulpit at the public-spirited and patriotic men, who sought to relieve the country from misrule.
— from Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren

Roused by pain and fright, Pasha reared in a wild attempt to unseat this hateful rider.
— from Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle by Sewell Ford

The Governor has himself assured me that nothing shall induce him to notice the obnoxious decree, till he has, in the first place, received it under all the official forms—in the next place, written his remonstrance to the government at home—and, in the third place, received an answer.
— from The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

Standing at our window one day last winter, we noticed two ladies, evidently a mother and daughter, come out of one of the most fashionable private residences in the city, where they had been visiting.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe

On the 14th of September, 1830, we opened our first passenger railway in England worked by the locomotive.
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir

When a bachelor wishes to issue engraved invitations for a formal dinner-party or luncheon, he uses the forms provided respectively in the chapters entitled “Dinners” and “Luncheons.”
— from Etiquette Made Easy by Edward Summers Squier