Here, put up in little china pots, like rouge, is a considerable lot of beautiful women's bloom which the disconsolate fair ones owe me a bitter grudge for stealing.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And Baldus the lawyer scoffs on, quum scholaris, inquit, loquitur cum puella, non praesumitur
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The solitude of childhood is not so much the mother of thought, as it is the feeder of love, and silence, and admiration, So strange a passion for the place possessed me in those years, that, though there lay—I shame to say how few roods distant from the mansion—half hid by trees, what I judged some romantic lake, such was the spell which bound me to the house, and such my carefulness not to pass its strict and proper precincts, that the idle waters lay unexplored for me; and not till late in life, curiosity prevailing over elder devotion, I found, to my astonishment, a pretty brawling brook had been the Lacus Incognitus of my infancy.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

As a consequence, industrial occupations have infinitely greater intellectual content and infinitely larger cultural possibilities than they used to possess.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Also, it would be necessary to have the idea of group in the first place, and the mere observations of our interior life could [Pg 441] never awaken that in us.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Such was the state of things when I left Cranford p. 19 and went to Drumble.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

It was my good fortune to enjoy the company of a gentleman—one Mr. Smooth-it-away—who, though he had never actually visited the Celestial City, yet seemed as well acquainted with its laws, customs, policy, and statistics, as with those of the City of Destruction, of which he was a native townsman.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He liked to be pointed out as one who wrote (he often was, in little country places); he enjoyed meeting men and women whose names were famous far and wide; he loved press-cuttings, revelled in his photograph when reproduced, and was almost physically upset when he received a real old-fashioned, slashing review.
— from Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke

Commode igitur in loco citato Psalmi accipi potest Panis Angelorum, cibus quo vescuntur Angeli non quidem incorporei (isti enim materiali cibo non egent), sed corporei, ista nempe rationalia animalia, de quibus hucusque disseruimus, degentia in aere, et quæ ratione tenuitatis suorum corporum, ac rationalis naturæ, quam maxime ad Angelos immateriales accedunt, ut proinde nuncupentur.
— from Demoniality; or, Incubi and Succubi by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

A similar republican spirit breathed in the principles, that the house protected the burgess, and that an arrest could only take place out of doors; that imprisonment during investigation was to be avoided; and that it was allowable for every accused and not yet condemned burgess by renouncing his citizenship to withdraw from the consequences of condemnation, so far as they affected not his property but his person-principles, which certainly were not embodied in formal laws and accordingly did not legally bind the prosecuting magistrate, but yet were by their moral weight of the greatest influence, particularly in limiting capital punishment.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Agitation of this character produced in labor circles profound distrust of both Whigs and Democrats who talked principally about tariffs and banks; it resulted in attempts to found independent labor parties.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

I like clever people, wherever they come from, and I take my amusement wherever I find it.
— from The American by Henry James

For even in childhood, even in little children, pride will first of all show itself; it is a hasty, an early appearance of the sin of the soul.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

When he could hobble on the injured limb Carney put the bit and bridle rein back on the buckskin, and turning to Jack, unwound the picket line from his legs, saying, "Get up and lead the way to that cave!
— from Bulldog Carney by William Alexander Fraser

Where there is lack of force, there will always be found the tendency to resort to evasion to accomplish an end; and Denmark, in 1799, endeavored to secure for her merchant ships immunity from search by belligerent cruisers—which International Law has always conceded, and still concedes, to be within the rights of a belligerent—by sending them on their voyages in large convoys, protected by ships of war.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The doctor tipped his sombrero forward and laughed aloud in long, cadenced peals as he sorted his vials.
— from John Ermine of the Yellowstone by Frederic Remington

But if a prominent critic in London could publicly credit Mr. Irving’s success as an actor to his hospitable dispensation of “chicken and champagne,” one need not be surprised that ordinary gossips should draw as liberally on their imagination for illustrations of his social popularity.
— from Henry Irving's Impressions of America Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations by Joseph Hatton