This is the principle, and it applies in all its consequences, exactly in the same manner and extent, to the State governments, as to the national government now under consideration.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

They are quite ready to fight—no boys in the school more so; but they are praepostors, and understand their office, and can't uphold unrighteous causes.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

That it is the same movement is clearly shown by their often at the same time taking a bit of the shawl into their mouths and sucking it; generally closing their eyes and purring from delight.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

On which account neither lakes nor rivers are moved in the same manner.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

College. ] Is prepared in the same manner of Apricots, so is also Oils of the Kernels of Cherry stones, Peaches, Pine-nuts, Fistic Nuts, Prunes, the seeds of Oranges, Hemp, Bastard Saffron, Citrons, Cucumbers, Gourds, Citruls, Dwarf Elder, Henbane, Lettuce, Flax, Melons, Poppy, Parsley, Radishes, Rape, Ricinum, Sesani, Mustard seed, and Grape stones.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Wherefore, notwithstanding it hath been many times spoken among us of the sayings and doings of Calandrino, I will make bold, considering, as Filostrato said awhile ago, that these are all diverting, to tell you yet another story thereof, wherein were I minded to swerve from the fact, I had very well known to disguise and recount it under other names; but, for that, in the telling of a story, to depart from the truth of things betided detracteth greatly from the listener's pleasure, I will e'en tell it you in its true shape, moved by the reason aforesaid.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

I asked the Indians to shew me the plant of which these roots formed a part but they informed me that neither of them grew near this place.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I watched them for some time through a lens, but not one excreted; I then tickled and stroked them with a hair in the same manner, as well as I could, as the ants do with their antennae; but not one excreted.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

When she was only fifteen, there was a man at my brother Gardiner's in town so much in love with her that my sister-in-law was sure he would make her an offer before we came away.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

It is the supposed murder of Colonel Barclay, of the Royal Munsters, at Aldershot, which I am investigating.”
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

He listened—the noise continued, but it was of a character so undistinguished by any peculiar or precise sound, that it might be the murmur of a wind arising among the boughs of a distant grove, or perhaps some stream, swollen by the late rain, which was discharging itself into the sluggish Maes with more than usual clamour.
— from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott

Be violets, in their secret mews, The flowers the wanton Zephyrs choose; Proud be the Rose, with rains and dews Her head impearling; * *
— from Mirror of the Months by P. G. (Peter George) Patmore

It seemed to me at the time impossible to explain the position of this mould without supposing that the wheel was imbedded before the lake was drained; but Sir R. Murchison suggests that it may have been washed down by a flood into the gorge in modern times, and then incrusted with calcareous tufa in the same manner as the wooden beam of the church of St. Lucia was swept down in 1826, and stuck fast in the Grotto of the Syren, where it still remains, and will eventually be quite imbedded in travertin.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

It is more fully discussed, together with the art of the story-teller, in "The Special Method in Primary Reading and Story."
— from Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry

For an instant, the sight of it made him shiver, as if the sunny May had of a sudden lapsed back into bleak December.
— from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

A question having arisen between China and Japan about the Lew Chew Islands, the United States Government has taken measures to inform those powers of its readiness to extend its good offices for the maintenance of peace if they shall mutually deem it desirable and find it practicable to avail themselves of the proffer.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Is it in churches with religious men, Which please the gods with prayers manifold, And in their studies meditate it then?
— from Sonnets and Canzonets by Amos Bronson Alcott

One may easily see also the cause why things knit in the same manner as stockings can be stretched without being torn, and, like elastic bodies, again contract as soon as the action of the distending force ceases.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

I will claim a secret audience with King Charles, and in two short minutes King Charles will obey me like a child."
— from The Coming of the King by Joseph Hocking

While Albert was lashing the front of his carriage in the same manner that he had the newspapers which were the innocent agents of his discomfiture, as he was crossing the barrier he perceived Morrel, who was walking with a quick step and a bright eye.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas