One misunderstanding of pragmatism is to identify it with positivistic tough-mindedness, to suppose that it scorns every rationalistic notion as so much jabber and gesticulation, that it loves intellectual anarchy as such and prefers a sort of wolf-world absolutely unpent and wild and without a master or a collar to any philosophic class-room product, whatsoever.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Celsus gives a good description of the catheter both male and female (VII. xxvi): Res vero interdum cogit emoliri manu urinam, quum illa non redditur, aut quia senectute iter eius collapsum est, aut quia calculus vel concretum aliquid ex sanguine intus se opposuit: ac mediocris quoque inflammatio saepe eam reddi naturaliter prohibet.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

"Come in," said Ernestine, remembering now.
— from Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

And to that I should emphatically reply, No! it is of the highest importance.
— from Social Rights And Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies. Vol 1 [of 2] by Leslie Stephen

… “At the end of this war I see Europe recreated, not by the diplomats, but by the proletariat.
— from Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed

I scarcely ever received news from them, or from any of the friends who were dear to me.
— from Prison Journals During the French Revolution by Duras, Louise Henriette Charlotte Philippine (de Noailles) de Durfort, duchesse de

Obj. 2: Further, that which consists in something extreme receives no increase.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

" "Well, I mustn't stay here and keep you from 'redding' up your kitchen, as you call it," said Elsie, rather neatly as she believed.
— from Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray

If his improved steam engines required no further precision of operation and construction than the atmospheric engines, this might have been sufficient; but in these engines it was indispensably necessary that the piston-rod should be guided with a smooth and even motion through the stuffing-box in the top of the cylinder, otherwise any shake or irregularity would cause it to work loose in the stuffing-box, and either to admit the air, or to let the steam escape.
— from The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt by Dionysius Lardner