Spinoza made a great improvement in the system by attaching the mind more systematically to the body, and studying the parts which organ and object played in qualifying knowledge; but his conception of mental unities and mental processes remained literary, or at best, as we have seen, dialectical.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Recently, on being shown a deer which had been killed by her brother, she was greatly distressed, and asked sorrowfully, "Why must everything die, even the fleet-footed deer?"
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

By moonlight in the garden she recited all the passionate rhymes she knew by heart, and, sighing, sang to him many melancholy adagios; but she found herself as calm after as before, and Charles seemed no more amorous and no more moved.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

So Archelaus took hence the occasion for that stratagem which he made use of, and by degrees he laid the blame on those men whose names were in these books, and especially upon Pheroras; and when he saw that the king believed him [to be in earnest], he said, "We must consider whether the young man be not himself plotted against by such a number of wicked wretches, and not thou plotted against by the young man; for I cannot see any occasion for his falling into so horrid a crime, since he enjoys the advantages of royalty already, and has the expectation of being one of thy successors; I mean this, unless there were some persons that persuade him to it, and such persons as make an ill use of the facility they know there is to persuade young men; for by such persons, not only young men are sometimes imposed upon, but old men also, and by them sometimes are the most illustrious families and kingdoms overturned.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

She opened the door, and bestowing upon him several kicks, bade him get away “out of that,” or she would complain to the captain.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

His large fortune, Upon his good and gracious nature hanging, Subdues and properties to his love and tendance All sorts of hearts; yea, from the glass-fac'd flatterer To Apemantus, that few things loves better Than to abhor himself; even he drops down The knee before him, and returns in peace Most rich in Timon's nod.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Go to England, join the king, be his friends, protectors, march to battle at his side, and be near him in his house, where conspiracies, more dangerous than the perils of war, are hatching every day.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

And on a certain day, as the king sat with his barons, there came into the court a squire on horseback, carrying a knight before him wounded to the death, and told the king that hard by in the forest was a knight who had reared up a pavilion by the fountain, “and hath slain my master, a valiant knight, whose name was Nirles; wherefore I beseech thee, Lord, my master may be buried, and that some good knight may avenge his death.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

And so saying he cut a couple of capers in the air with every sign of extreme satisfaction, and then ran to seize the bridle of Dorothea's mule, and checking it fell on his knees before her, begging her to give him her hand to kiss in token of his acknowledgment of her as his queen and mistress.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But if he could have been told that this, or some conception of the same kind, but higher than this, was the truth at which he was aiming, and the need which he sought to supply, he would gladly have recognized that more was contained in his own thoughts than he himself knew.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Whereas had the law-officer or the gallows been kept before his eyes, he would have ceased to steal.
— from Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1: Luther on the Creation by Martin Luther

The desirable type of acid-forming bacteria do not form spores; hence, are easily killed by heating the milk.
— from Outlines of dairy bacteriology, 10th edition A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by E. G. (Edwin George) Hastings

Violet now attended alone to her mother's afternoon tea, kneeling by her side as she sipped the refreshing infusion, and coaxing her to eat a waferlike slice of bread-and-butter, or a few morsels of sponge-cake.
— from Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

[pg 332] A German who has studied English to thorough mastery, except in the mere facility of speech, may in a discussion upon some of its principles be contradicted by any mere English speaker, who insists upon his superior knowledge because he actually speaks the language and his antagonist does not, but the student will probably be correct and the talker wrong.
— from Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery

Kubbat al-Sanaya, or Dome of the Front Teeth, at Mount Ohod, i. 430 Kubbat al-Zayt (Dome of Oil), or Kubbat al-Shama (Dome of Candles), in the Mosque of the Prophet, i. 337, n. Kulsum bin Hadmah, gives refuge to Mohammed at Kuba, i. 355 Kummayah, Ibn, the infidel, i. 430 Kuraysh, legend of their foundation of the eighth House of Allah, ii. 322 Kurayzah, a tribe of the Benu Israel, i. 349 Kurayzah, town of, founded by the Jews, i. 347 Kurayzah, the Masjid al-, ii. 46 Extermination of the Jewish tribe of Al-Kurayzah, 46 Kurbaj, or Cat o Nine Tails, of Egypt, i. 21 Kus Kusu, the food so called, i. 198 Kusah (scant-bearded man), ii. 14 Kusay bin Kilab, his foundation of the seventh House of Allah, ii.
— from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

He meant to be kingly, but he was only the female saint once more.
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

When the Moorish king beheld his son, his only child, who was to remain in his stead a sort of captive in a hostile land, he folded him in his arms and wept over him.
— from Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida by Washington Irving