In short, the root of the error long prevalent in the conception of training of mind consists in leaving out of account movements of things to future results in which an individual shares, and in the direction of which observation, imagination, and memory are enlisted.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

She uncorked it and put it to her lips, saying to herself, "I do hope it'll make me grow large again, for, really, I'm quite tired of being such a tiny little thing!"
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The other clothes would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Monseigneur in Town M onseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The only change in the Latin text, however, is from Designat Figuras rerum in the original, to Figuram rerum designat .
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

To fully appreciate the light in which any interference with these things would be viewed by the native population, it is necessary to put oneself in the position of a keen member of the Quorn, who saw Parliament making hunting illegal, on the grounds that the sufferings inflicted on the fox rendered it an inhuman pastime.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

So called from a former reputed Indian grave, now almost obliterated.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

But an emotion which springs from reason is necessarily referred to the common properties of things (see the def. of reason in II.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

The working of miracles is old and out-dated; to teach the people is too laborious; to interpret scripture is to invade the prerogative of the schoolmen; to pray is too idle; to shed tears is cowardly and unmanly; to fast is too mean and sordid; to be easy and familiar is beneath the grandeur of him, who, without being sued to and intreated, will scarce give princes the honour of kissing his toe; finally, to die for religion is too self-denying; and to be crucified as their Lord of Life, is base and ignominious.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

My father read it, clapped both his hands to his head, and began running round the room in little circles like a man who has been driven out of his senses.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

He also adopted the practice of forming four regiments into a brigade; and the number of colours was afterwards reduced to three in each regiment.
— from Historical Record of the Fourth, or the King's Own, Regiment of Foot Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1680, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1839 by Richard Cannon

She may not promise to love and honour if she will not also promise to obey: and till her love reaches that point of surrender she must remain an unsatisfied lover—she cannot, as a satisfied bride, find rest in the home of her husband.
— from Union and Communion; or, Thoughts on the Song of Solomon by James Hudson Taylor

I was in my younger Years engaged, partly by his Advice, and partly by my own Inclinations in the Courtship of a Person who had a great deal of Beauty, and did not at my first Approaches seem to have any Aversion to me; but as my natural Taciturnity hindred me from showing my self to the best Advantage, she by degrees began to look upon me as a very silly Fellow, and being resolved to regard Merit more than any Thing else in the Persons who made their Applications to her, she married a Captain of Dragoons who happened to be beating up for Recruits in those Parts.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

From April 23rd to May 7th the fleet remained in due subordination; but on that day a fresh mutiny broke out.
— from Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

He who would enjoy the musical integument of this play must have cultivated a craving for dissonance in harmony and find relish in combinations of tones that sting and blister and pain and outrage the ear.
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

That good old soul could hardly contain himself for righteous indignation; but Checkers cut him short by telling him he was in a hurry.
— from Checkers: A Hard-luck Story by Henry Blossom

If faithfully represented, it must have been very short,—scarcely, if at all, exceeding three feet.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

It is with those who fared forth resolutely into the night that we have to do; the rest of the world is to be barred from any further connection with this little history.
— from The Flyers by George Barr McCutcheon

Yet even this poor benefit is so soon over, that when by many signs man is led to perceive the decline of his existence, he has scarcely experienced its perfection, or fully realised its peculiar strength, which, once diminished, the best part of life is gone with every race of mortals.
— from Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi