If this progress has demonstrated anything, it is that there is no such thing as genuine knowledge and fruitful understanding except as the offspring of doing.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

A diner, knife and fork upright, elbows on table, ready for a second helping stared towards the foodlift across his stained square of newspaper.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Just before the order to "charge" was given, the orderly sergeant kindled a fire under each horse, and when the charge commenced, only about six of the animals laid down.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

He is celebrated by Bede for two exploits; for establishing the fast of Lent in his kingdom, and for utterly extirpating idolatry, which, notwithstanding the prevalence of Christianity, had hitherto been tolerated by the two preceding monarchs.
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

We could lay a wager that he does; that in eating his ember-roasted potatoes in the open air, with some broiled tunny , let us suppose, as a fitting accompaniment—(the Thynnus vulgaris, in highest esteem with the ancients as with the moderns, abundant about Caprera and all the shores of Provençe, Sardinia, and Sicily, and than which, indeed, there is hardly any better fish)—we could lay a wager, we say, that [ 152 ] in eating his potatoes and fish al fresco he discards the use of knife and fork utterly, eating his fish with his fingers, and using the running brook beside him as a convenient finger-glass.
— from Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands by Stewart, Alexander, Rev.

Within the basin were lying many canoes, and also boats of a larger sort that carried oars and that were rigged with a sort of lug-sail; but these all kept away from us, even as all the boats which we had seen during our passage of the lake had given us a wide berth.
— from The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

"We have a certain claim of kinship and friendship upon England," he added, "and we are very anxious to enlist her aid, even though we lose this time; for there may soon be another vacancy.
— from Affairs of State Being an Account of Certain Surprising Adventures Which Befell an American Family in the Land of Windmills by Burton Egbert Stevenson