Every strong idea in the Social Contract had been before published in the discourse on Inequality; and every bold opinion in Emilius previously found in Eloisa.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Previously, in Chapter III , in the definition of the fundamentals of the Kula, we saw that the population of the Ring can be divided into what we called Kula communities .
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The legend about him is as follows:— A long time ago, in the pre-Muhammadan days, a man caught a tiger kitten and took it home; it grew up quite tame and lived with the man until he died, when it returned to the jungle and grew to an enormous size, nine cubits ( hasta ) long; it is still there, though nobody ever sees it; it does no harm, but sometimes very large tracks are seen, and men hear its roar, which is so loud that it can be heard from Chĕmor to Bâtu Gajah; when heard in the dry season, it is a sure prognostication of rain in fifteen days’ time.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Commerce is undoubtedly a blessing, while restrained within its proper channels; but a glut of wealth brings along with it a glut of evils: it brings false taste, false appetite, false wants, profusion, venality, contempt of order, engendering a spirit of licentiousness, insolence, and faction, that keeps the community in continual ferment, and in time destroys all the distinctions of civil society; so that universal anarchy and uproar must ensue.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

There is a rather impressive beano in progress in the dining-room, and they are waiting for supplies."
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

mats are spread arround the fire on all sides, on these they set in the day and frequently sleep at night.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

If the demons had been allowed to do their will only for a few minutes longer, all the men would have been killed, and the very house razed to the ground.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

The puzzle is to draw with three strokes of the pencil the diagram that the little girl is exhibiting in the illustration.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

"If that don't bring you round, George," says she, "just throw your eye across here at your present now and then, and the two together MUST do it."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The result to England in the days of Charles II. has been seen,—her coast insulted, her shipping burned almost within sight of her capital.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Pickering had, like his father, a singular weakness for accumulating stock, and laying up imperfect copies of rare books in the distant hope of completing them.
— from The Confessions of a Collector by William Carew Hazlitt

They went forth into the Divine Substance, which is the substance of all that is."
— from The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland

“Three hundred crowns of six francs each!” chorussed the luckless banker, Pille-Miche, and Coupiau, in three different tones.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Harrow fagging had no special reputation for cruelty; yet there are those living who can remember having been called out of their beds at night to have cold water poured down their backs—for no special reason, but as a part of the hardening process considered good for fags generally; or to start from Leith’s boarding-house in the dark, to go round the church-yard by the north porch— BLOODY PORCH , as it was called, from some obscure legend.
— from The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities by John Stephen Farmer

But in the darkness he was as invisible as she was.
— from Guns of the Gods: A Story of Yasmini's Youth by Talbot Mundy

"Oh! give the winds all past offence to sweep, [pg 024] To scatter wide, or bury in the deep: Thy power, my weakness, may I ever see, And wholly dedicate my soul to thee: Reign o'er my will; my passions ebb and flow At thy command, nor human motive know!
— from The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Edward Young

[GM#26][GM26V10.TXT]4420 A plunge into the deep is of little moment A marriage without love is dishonour Active despair is a passion that must be superseded Am I ill?
— from Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George Meredith by George Meredith

"To get out is the difficulty."
— from The Ne'er-Do-Well by Rex Beach

Whereas on November 2, 1894, Departmental Rule II, section 4, Customs Rule II, section 6, Postal Rule II, section 6, Railway Mail Rule II, section 6, were amended to declare that no person appointed to a place under any exception to examination should be transferred from such place to another place not also excepted from examination; and Whereas it was not my intention that these several amendments should be retroactive in their effect: I therefore direct that the word "hereafter" be inserted after the word "person" in the first line of each of said sections as of the date of said amendments, viz, November 2, 1894.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland

The place was deserted and lay bare and ugly in the dull light.
— from Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson