Mr. Wopsle struck in upon that; as one who knew all about relationships, having professional occasion to bear in mind what female relations a man might not marry; and expounded the ties between me and Joe.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The zeal for "answers" is the explanation of much of the zeal for rigid and mechanical methods.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

For instance, in certain islands not tenanted by a single mammal, some of the endemic plants have beautifully hooked seeds; yet few relations are more manifest than that hooks serve for the transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Now, then, in order to increase the strings to my bow, I thought I would look up some of those people whom I had formerly recognized, and make myself known.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Concerning relation in general, these things may be considered: First, That there is no one thing, whether simple idea, substance, mode, or relation, or name of either of them, which is not capable of almost an infinite number of considerations in reference to other things: and therefore this makes no small part of men’s thoughts and words: v.g. one single man may at once be concerned in, and sustain all these following relations, and many more, viz.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

[‘ throwing ’] ðrōwungrǣding f. reading about martyrs, martyrology , CM 286. ðrōwung-tīd f., -tīma n. time of suffering .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

For this particular disease, him that shall take upon him to cure it, [2844] Paracelsus will have to be a magician, a chemist, a philosopher, an astrologer; Thurnesserus, Severinus the Dane, and some other of his followers, require as much: many of them cannot be cured but by magic.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But be all this as it may, certain it is that while the subordinate phantoms soon found their place among the crew, though still as it were somehow distinct from them, yet that hair-turbaned Fedallah remained a muffled mystery to the last.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

“You ran a frightful risk,” answered Mr Martin, severely.
— from The Empire Makers: A Romance of Adventure and War in South Africa by Hume Nesbit

Wolfe soon saw that this rash valor had ruined the fortunes of the day: nothing remained but to make such preparations for retreat as might mitigate the inevitable disaster.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 by George Warburton

No hope for Robin and Maid Marian?
— from Collected Poems: Volume Two by Alfred Noyes

Putting Them Up Jan Playing Again Feb Ringing at Midday Mar Not Heard Apr Silent for Ever 377 * * *
— from The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 by Various

They do their full share of grumbling and complaining, to say nothing of their full share of suffering, but there's scarcely one of them who doesn't secretly hope and expect to become rich some day, or at least to be part [354] of a rich community; and they're not more than half wrong, for railways and manufactures must reach us, in the ordinary course of events, and all our people expect to see them.
— from Caleb Wright: A Story of the West by John Habberton

Those working in the front receive a monthly maintenance fee of only fifteen to twenty dollars.
— from The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political Study by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

This seems curious after saying she has been set to spy ; but 'tis my impression that in this heathenish country spying, aye, and I can fancy robbing and murdering, might be done with a clean conscience as a duty towards one's masters; and Hubert, and the memory of Sir Thomas, are the real masters, and not Eustace and I....
— from Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century by Vernon Lee

Occasionally, on Sundays, some of the humble classes would walk over from Rome and make merry there; but the week days often went by without a soul entering the place, such was its isolation amidst the bare Campagna.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola