But, if he has a normally growing or active self, when he finds that his vocation involves such risks, he willingly adopts them as integral portions of his activity.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

“I had a wild idea of stopping at Holyhead, and not going on to London that day, but I soon saw that that would be plumb foolishness.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Vassya changes the compress, and glad that his wife is at home and not gadding off to her aunt’s, sits meekly at her feet.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And he had a good knack at getting in the complimentary thing here and there about a knight that was likely to advertise—no, I mean a knight that had influence; and he also had a neat gift of exaggeration, for in his time he had kept door for a pious hermit who lived in a sty and worked miracles.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Those to her mother, contained little else, than that they were just returned from the library, where such and such officers had attended them, and where she had seen such beautiful ornaments as made her quite wild; that she had a new gown, or a new parasol, which she would have described more fully, but was obliged to leave off in a violent hurry, as Mrs. Forster called her, and they were going to the camp;—and from her correspondence with her sister, there was still less to be learnt—for her letters to Kitty, though rather longer, were much too full of lines under the words to be made public.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Meanwhile, the damsel, fleeing, as we have before said, and knowing not whither to betake herself, save whereas it seemed good to her hackney to carry her, fared on so far into the wood that she could not see where she had entered, and went wandering all day about that desert place, no otherwise than as Pietro had done, now pausing [to hearken] and now going on, weeping the while and calling and making moan of her illhap.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

“We'll have a nice game of euchre.”
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Those to her mother contained little else than that they were just returned from the library, where such and such officers had attended them, and where she had seen such beautiful ornaments as made her quite wild; that she had a new gown, or a new parasol, which she would have described more fully, but was obliged to leave off in a violent hurry, as Mrs. Forster called her, and they were going off to the camp; and from her correspondence with her sister, there was still less to be learnt—for her letters to Kitty, though rather longer, were much too full of lines under the words to be made public.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

She saw supreme in Constance that quality which she had recognized in the porters at Newhaven on landing—the quality of an honest and naive goodwill, of powerful simplicity.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

Every hundred years he had a new growth of teeth and hair.
— from The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427 by Johannes Schiltberger

We spend a happy afternoon in the curio shops, at Messrs. Kühn and Messrs. Welsh, whom we consider have the best things, and then visit, with Mr. Hall, a nursery garden on the Bluff, for we think of having one of those prim little Japanese gardens at home.
— from Newfoundland to Cochin China By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

More than that, with all his individual states, he never had any nation, great or small, at his back.
— from Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam

Either marriage had brought him a new growth of hair, or else Blossy had selected a new wig for him—a modest, close, iron-gray which fitted his poll to perfection.
— from Old Lady Number 31 by Louise Forsslund

p. 1266) argues for Hebrew and not Greek originals, because of the existence of two Greek versions, neither of which, he says, appears to be a revision of the other, containing hebraisms suggestive of a Hebrew original.
— from The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by William Heaford Daubney

If any one bates an inch to the devil, or listens to him even once, he's lost—there's no salvation for him—he sinks in the bog to the crown of his head, and never gets out.
— from The Black Monk, and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

All are holy charms,— o-fuda : they protect the houses; and no goblin or ghost can enter by night into a dwelling so protected, unless the o-fuda be removed.
— from The Romance of the Milky Way, and Other Studies & Stories by Lafcadio Hearn

With him departed, not all Hilary's peace or faith or courage of heart, for to all who love truly, while the best beloved lives, and lives worthily, no parting is hopeless and no grief overwhelming; but all the brightness of her youth, all the sense of joy that young people have in loving, and in being beloved again, in fond meetings and fonder partings, in endless walks and talks, in sweet kisses and clinging arms.
— from Mistress and Maid: A Household Story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

It is not likely that, arriving at such a time, I was desirous of sharing other people's dangers, and they evidently did not have any idea of sharing the management of the government with those who were away from home and not guilty of disloyalty, but rather disenfranchised even those who helped them to abolish the democracy.
— from The Orations of Lysias by Lysias