Some Sir William Thomson tells us how hydrogen gas will chew up a large iron spike as a child's molars will chew off the end of a stick of candy.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Religion ignores its immense debt to Science; and Science is scarcely at all conscious how much Religion owes it.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

“From further conversation I learned that two years after leaving the high school, Kisotchka had been married to a resident in the town who was half Greek, half Russian, had a post either in the bank or in the insurance society, and also carried on a trade in corn.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He spoke in that refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance who had grown old in society and at court.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In combination with the Atharva-veda it supplies an almost complete picture of the ordinary life of the Vedic Indian.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

It was customary for emigrants to take with them a portion of this sacred fire, which they jealously guarded and brought with them to their new home, where it served as a connecting link between the young Greek colony and the mother country.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

If society, as a Church, had jurisdiction, then it would know when to bring back from exclusion and to reunite to itself.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I tried to laugh as if I didn’t mean what I said, and, as Cecil laughed too, and went away, it may be all right.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The dangerously clear logic of the Negro's position will more and more loudly assert itself in that day when increasing wealth and more intricate social organization preclude the South from being, as it so largely is, simply an armed camp for intimidating black folk.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

This is such an amazing country and in such an amazing condition.
— from Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front by Keith Henderson

But presently, as the mules thundered up the road and past us, just as we were about to fire on one of their pursuers, we saw him tumble from his horse all sprawling, as it stumbled across a chuck-hole, and as he gathered himself up heard him break out swearing in good vigorous English, that stamped him as a Pale Face beyond a question.
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling

Some of her deceased husband's clothing is included in the inventory, such as a coat with silver buttons, a red waistcoat, a suit of serge and a black suit of serge unmade, a jacket of cloth, and an old suit and cloak.
— from Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow

"When among my constituents I almost invariably call for a gourd for drinking purposes in preference to a tumbler; but in this company I shall abandon a custom of the plain people and yield to the habits of the sons of Mammon.
— from The Little Brown Jug at Kildare by Meredith Nicholson

Even in a statue which, like the Aphrodite of Melos, shows an endeavour to return to the nobler ideals and more dignified and simple forms of an earlier age, there is something artificial and conventional about both figure and drapery; and one feels that the sculptor, though both his aims and his attainments are of the highest, is trying rather to reflect the best influences of his predecessors than to embody a present religious conception.
— from Religion and Art in Ancient Greece by Ernest Arthur Gardner

A different emphasis within the general mechanical scheme, attaching especial importance to the conceptions of force and energy, has led to a rival tendency in science and a contrasting type of naturalism.
— from The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

Most of the plains of Cuba above indicated have been formed by the erosion of its surface, and are covered with residual soil derived from the underlying limestones.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

My uncle, however, contends that he is still alive; and certainly the likeness between him and our friend Colonel Middleton is very extraordinary."
— from The Forgery; or, Best Intentions. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

By the way, I sent around a copy to Miss Roberts, signed with my initials.
— from Potts's Painless Cure 1898 by Edward Bellamy