Custom, habit, all the determining forces of learning were gone; only brute experience remained.
— from Second Variety by Philip K. Dick

Translations of two of them may serve as examples: "Lucius, having a pleurisy, and being given over by everybody, received from the god this oracle, that he should come and take the ashes off his altar, and mixing them with wine, apply them to his side.
— from Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence

When the bond of union gets once broken everything ruinous to our future prospects is to be apprehended.
— from With Americans of Past and Present Days by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

He could have stood a close examination of Napoleon's battles and generals, and would have told you the ground occupied by every regiment when the first shot was fired at Waterloo.
— from The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Lang

The extent of squares coloured shows the extent of ground occupied by each religious denomination.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

The principal personages engaged on both sides in this grand scene of reconciliation were on that day reciprocally decorated with the orders of the respective courts, while the imperial guards of both emperors received food and drink for a great festivity.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

He himself had prospered in life and, as he grew older, became extremely rich both from his farms and from lending money, at high interest, to shipping and other companies.
— from Ancient Rome: The Lives of Great Men by Mary Agnes Hamilton

With some exceptions, such as those cities which had their own elective sheriffs, and those pairs of counties which were conjoined under one sheriff, each shire had one sheriff, appointed in the following manner: every year, on November 1, a special meeting of the Privy Council was held at the exchequer, a number of the higher government officials being especially required to be present; here a list of three persons of distinction from each county, qualified to fill the office of sheriff, was made up and submitted to the king, who "pricked" one from each three; the men thus chosen were then bound to seek letters-patent, and take their oaths as sheriffs for the ensuing year in their respective counties.
— from The American Nation: A History — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Edward Potts Cheyney

The Mind must be left free and untrammelled , and governed only by enlightened reason .
— from The Spirit of God as Fire; the Globe Within the Sun Our Heaven by D. Mortimore