14 The four last named countries have, as we know, in the last decade entered very extensively into the emigration movement.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

For though the poets are to be expelled, still art is recognized as another aspect of li reason—like love in the Symposium, extending over the same sphere, but confined to the preliminary education, and acting through the power of habit (vii. 522 A ); and this conception of art is not limited to strains of music or the forms of plastic art, but pervades all nature and has a wide kindred in the world.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

These three principles are the three corner stones of heredity as we know it today, the principles of the independent unit-characters each derived from a determiner in the germ plasm.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

For though the poets are to be expelled, still art is recognized as another aspect of reason—like love in the Symposium, extending over the same sphere, but confined to the preliminary education, and acting through the power of habit; and this conception of art is not limited to strains of music or the forms of plastic art, but pervades all nature and has a wide kindred in the world.
— from The Republic by Plato

The enemy in great masses were crowding the [132] Falmouth Hills, and we knew intended to cross and strike us.
— from Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer by G. Moxley (Gilbert Moxley) Sorrel

Several hundred Americans were killed in these explosions, and property to the value of millions of dollars was destroyed.
— from The World War and What was Behind It; Or, The Story of the Map of Europe by Louis Paul Bénézet

Did it not remind him of another "fire of coals" of which he had already written, kindled in the court of the high-priestly palace where "Peter stood and warmed himself," and near which he denied his Lord three times?
— from A Life of St. John for the Young by George Ludington Weed

I have kept it to myself hitherto, and will keep it to the end.
— from The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1 by William Harrison Ainsworth

So to all the admiration and affection he felt for the girl, this added a tenderness to his thoughts of her, and without knowing it the knowledge of the thing itself, which had severed them irrevocably in the Capsina's mind, was the very cause of a new tie binding Mitsos to her, and the strands of it were of a fibre more durable and more akin to that which she now despaired of than any that had bound them yet.
— from The Capsina: An Historical Novel by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

A mystery hung over the island empire, which had been sealed against foreign intercourse for two hundred years, and its mere seclusion, apart from the weird romance that gilded such fragments of its history as were known, invested the efforts to reopen the country with a romantic charm.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

When she grew a little older, Barbara's French nursery governess left her, and from that hour, almost without knowing it, the child took her education largely into her own hands, and her aunt stood too much in awe of her almost preternatural resoluteness, to interfere in any serious way.
— from A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs by George Cary Eggleston

His accounts were kept in the most exact manner; and his bills were made out with unrivalled neatness and expedition.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

He had captured her hand; had it tight in his two hands and was kissing it tenderly.
— from In Red and Gold by Samuel Merwin