The only possible way to get light upon the matter is to adopt the method of experiment.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The Greeks looked upon the world and the gods as the work of an inscrutable necessity.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

She found him sitting with a newly opened package before him, and a gloomy look upon his face.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

ATHENIAN: The consideration of the Persian governments led us thus far to enlarge.
— from Laws by Plato

Though we find in Daniel two names of Angels, Gabriel, and Michael; yet is cleer out of the text it selfe, (Dan. 12.1) that by Michael is meant Christ, not as an Angel, but as a Prince: and that Gabriel (as the like apparitions made to other holy men in their sleep) was nothing but a supernaturall phantasme, by which it seemed to Daniel, in his dream, that two Saints being in talke, one of them said to the other, "Gabriel, let us make this man understand his Vision:" For God needeth not, to distinguish his Celestiall servants by names, which are usefull onely to the short memories of Mortalls.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Miss Halcombe and Mr. Gilmore looked up in astonishment from the card-table at which they were playing.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

" "Well," said the girl, "let us go."
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The review begins with the Charity Hospital with its thousand helpless human wrecks; takes in the penitentiary, where the “tough” from Battle Row and Poverty Gap is made to earn behind stone walls the living the world owes him; a thoughtless, jolly convict-band with opportunity at last “to think” behind the iron bars, but little desire to improve it; governed like unruly boys, which in fact most of them are.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

I did not restrict myself to the exact truth in that history, as in these pages I am bound to do), that I won the poor girl’s heart entirely, and, besides, made considerable progress in the German language under her instruction.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

These are, in general, less uncertain in the inland than in the foreign trade, and in some branches of foreign trade than in others; in the trade to North America, for example, than in that to Jamaica.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I got a darn good library up there, too.
— from Peeps at People by Robert Cortes Holliday

but what dull ache is this in that obscurely sensitive region, somewhere below the heart, where the nervous centre called the semilunar ganglion lies unconscious of itself until a great grief or a mastering anxiety reaches it through all the non-conductors which isolate it from ordinary impressions?
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stephen Gore looked up as his son joined him, and then turned his head away so that his eyes were on the tower of Thorn.
— from Mad Barbara by Warwick Deeping

Herr von Zehren showed me the letter, and as he observed my grave look upon reading it, asked me, "Do you wish to go back?"
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

From the face of the supercargo Carr let his glance light upon the figure of Captain Louis Hendry, who was standing at the break of the poop talking to the chief mate.
— from Tessa 1901 by Louis Becke

Really his words threw the greatest light upon it.
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice

The guard lit up the lamps.
— from Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet

These gradually lengthen, until the stem is ornamented with many hooklike pods, with slender stalks, hanging all along it.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong

'Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession' (Heb 4:14).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Mr. Crosbie's father had inherited from the Earl of Glendore, who had given leases under the old penal laws.
— from Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard Henry Becker