The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect and who obey their governors are educated.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Berlin: K. Friedrich Museum, 1635 ) View larger image There lived about the same time as Stefano a man of passing good repute, Ugolino, painter of Siena, very much his friend, who painted many panels and chapels throughout all Italy, although he held ever in great part to the Greek manner, as one who, grown old therein, had wished by reason of a certain obstinacy in himself to hold rather to the manner of Cimabue than to that of Giotto, which was so greatly revered.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Napuyra ang maung tápad kay gamay ra ug pusta ang kuntra, The fight was cancelled because not enough people bet on one of the cocks.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

That east window with its delicate stone tracery, through which the rising sun casts its glorious rays upon priest and people, reminding them of the greater sun—the sun of righteousness who arose in the east bringing healing to the nations—the altar and aumbry and piscina telling of reverence and order in the celebration of the Eucharist—in fact there is everything now to indicate a church of a truly primitive type.”
— from The Gentle Persuasion: Sketches of Scottish Life by Alan Gray

As a general rule use per only in the phrase per cent .
— from The Style Book of The Detroit News by Detroit news

“Mus’ go?” repeated Uncle, pricking up his ears, “for w’y you say zis?
— from The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History by Myrtle Reed

As Grimes reminded us, Plato—— Moore.
— from The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought by John Dewey

At the first menstrual period, a girl remains under pollution for thirteen days, in a corner of the house or outside it in the village common land (mandai).
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

DIRECT TAXES.--A direct tax is levied directly at a given rate upon property or polls.
— from Elements of Civil Government A Text-Book for Use in Public Schools, High Schools and Normal Schools and a Manual of Reference for Teachers by Alexander L. Peterman

It was one of those years in which a sort of sympathetic movement toward great results unconsciously pervades the races and the minds of men.
— from The Uses of Astronomy An Oration Delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856 by Edward Everett

After the marls and the brick earths there is an endless variety of soils that will serve well for pisé-building—some, of course, better than others, but all, save the extremes (the excessively light and the excessively clayey), capable of giving good results under proper treatment.
— from Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay: A Renaissance (2nd edition) by Clough Williams-Ellis

Tracheotomy may be deemed necessary, and there is a great risk, unless proper precautions {209} be taken, of wounding the aorta, where it passes upwards in the jugular fossa.
— from A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell