It is partly clear and the land is so close it is easy to see.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

No one indeed can fail to be struck by the intensely popular character of Indian proverbial philosophy and by its freedom from the note of pedantry which is so conspicuous in Indian literature.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

As usually borne by the Cunninghame family the ends are couped and pointed, but in some cases it is borne throughout.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

In such cases it is often best expressed in English by a proper name or a descriptive word.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

They believe the betuah in some cases imparts invulnerability to the possessor of such a kris , which is handed down as an heirloom from father to son, and honoured as something divine.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

In some cases, it is well to permit him to experiment, and to discover the consequences for himself in order that he may act intelligently next time under similar circumstances.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

'Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord, your Lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, 'SAM JOHNSON.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

For while it may seem that contact is so called, because the sense of touch is specially concerned in it, yet the gods, if so minded, might mingle with men, so as to see and be seen, hear and be heard; and where is the need of touching?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Jewish existence in this world is not such as woos the Jew into sleepy contentment; it is such as stirs him into organization against future contingencies and into programs which may shape those contingencies to the benefit of his race.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Such punishment is pure revenge, and in such cases is itself a new wrong.
— from The Son of a Servant by August Strindberg

He has put forth his ideas in many different forms; large volumes and little, works historical, expository, argumentative, theoretical and practical, but his point of view has remained throughout his long productive career essentially unchanged, and is so clearly indicated in all his works that one may be sure of obtaining the fundamental principles of his philosophy from whatever volume he selects.
— from Six Major Prophets by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

The Feast of the Most Holy Sacrament, to whose liturgy this hymn, "O Res Mirabilis," belongs, was instituted to commemorate the miracle of Bolsena, which, coming late as it did, in the country of St. Francis, and within two years of the birth of Dante, seems in its significant coincidences, in its startling symbolism, the fit material summing up of what is conveniently designated as the Franciscan revival: the introduction into religious matters of passionate human emotion.
— from Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee

Nothing can prove—or disprove—that honour, in such circumstances, is invoked by each or either of the parties concerned to make a piece of acquisitiveness or megalomania appear as fine to himself as possible: that, just because he has a lurking suspicion that all is not well with the operation, he seeks to justify it to himself with fine words that have a very vague content.
— from The Fruits of Victory A Sequel to The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

"If," she cried impetuously, "it is to take me back to those----" "On the contrary," he replied.
— from Starvecrow Farm by Stanley John Weyman