The number of these special courts of justice is continually increasing, and their functions increase likewise.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Quædam præscribuntur illis Cretâ in Tabella , 6.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

The development of the habit of foreign travel, the increased commercial intercourse between countries, and the frequency of diplomatic missions, gave every nation many opportunities of studying the various forms of contemporary dress.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

The family has its "skeleton in the closet," social groups avoid the public "washing of dirty linen"; the community banishes from consciousness, if it can, its slums, and parades its parks and boulevards.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

By "place of action," moreover, they mean seasonableness of circumstance ; and the seasonable circumstance for an action is called in Greek εὐκαιρία, in Latin occasio (occasion).
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Porthos ate his wing of the fowl timidly, and shuddered when he felt the knee of the procurator’s wife under the table, as it came in search of his.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The whole house rose up in clamorous indignation demanding justice.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The tailor wrapped it carefully in his cloth and took it to the King, who could not admire it enough, placed it in his largest hall, and in return for it presented the tailor with a large stone house.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

But it also interests Reason that the Ideas (for which in moral feeling it arouses an immediate interest) should have objective reality; i.e. that nature should at least show a trace or give an indication that it contains in itself some ground for assuming a regular agreement of its products with our entirely disinterested satisfaction (which we recognise a priori as a law for every one, without being able to base it upon proofs).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

It consists in the decarburization of cast iron by fusion with wrought iron, iron sponge, steel scrap, or iron oxide, in the hearth of a reverberatory furnace heated with gases, the flame of which assists the reaction, and the subsequent recarburization or deoxidation of the bath by the addition, at the close of the process, of spiegeleisen or ferro-manganese.
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn

Two saturated strata of different temperatures may be brought into contact in the higher regions, and discharge large rain-drops, which, it not divided by some obstruction, will reach the ground, though passing through strata which would vaporize them if they were in a state of more minute division.]
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

"Cockfighting and Idleness" campaign, IV, 291.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

His humiliation indeed, consisted in his giving up their independent exercise.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

BROTHER GRIFFITH’S STORY of MAD MONKTON CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II.
— from The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins

“Then it is clear I don’t understand anything about it,” he said.
— from Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

"She is cured, isn't she?"
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4 by Émile Zola

The sole limitation that has been imposed upon the revising powers of the Assembly is contained in a clause adopted in an amendment of August 14, 1884, which forbids that the republican style of government be made the subject of a proposed revision.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

From this result Signor Bellucci concludes that wherever water is converted into powder or spray, whether by a cascade, a torrent, or by the rolling of waves, there ozone is produced.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 692 March 31, 1877 by Various

A mechanical impulse, which I cannot explain, prompted me to untie the string, and, impelled by an invincible curiosity, I read the first letter which came to my hand.”
— from The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau