The training of the witness into a capacity for truth-telling must be based, (1) on the judge’s knowledge of all the conditions that affect, negatively, correct observations and reproductions; (2) on his making clear to himself whether and which conditions are operative in the case in question; and (3) on his aiming to eliminate this negative influence from the witness.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

This right was so powerful, that it even applied itself to the lower orders, and its violation was considered the most odious crime; thus, in the thirteenth century, the King of Aragon was severely abused by all persons and all classes, because in spite of this right he caused a Jew to be burned so as not to have to pay a debt which the man claimed of him.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

And will you tell me you'll let yourself be led away with that kind of a mess of swabs?
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Both must find it hard to realise a future of any kind; the one because the present is so living and hurrying and close around him; the other because his life tempts him to revel in the mere sense of animal existence, not knowing of, and consequently not caring for any pungency of pleasure for the attainment of which he can plan, and deny himself and look forward.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The Vánar chieftain bowed his head, Within the walls of Lanká sped, Leave from the new-made king obtained, And Sítá's lovely garden gained.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Reader,—I don’t know what kind of a preface I must write to find thee courteous, an epithet too often bestowed without a cause.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

GREENLAND BAPTIZED The same spring King Olaf also sent Leif Eirikson (A.D. 1000) to Greenland to proclaim Christianity there, and Leif went there that summer.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Gideon Spilett ranked among the first of those reporters: a man of great merit, energetic, prompt and ready for anything, full of ideas, having traveled over the whole world, soldier and artist, enthusiastic in council, resolute in action, caring neither for trouble, fatigue, nor danger, when in pursuit of information, for himself first, and then for his journal, a perfect treasury of knowledge on all sorts of curious subjects, of the unpublished, of the unknown, and of the impossible.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

There was a King of Arms made for Ireland, whose name was Ulster , and his province was all Ireland; and he was the fourth King of Arms, and the first Herald of Ireland."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

But evil is essentially selfish and can gain and hold this kingship only as long as it can deceive.
— from The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

The boys looked forward with great interest to the coming treat, and often wondered what kind of a thing it would be, for they had never been to anything of the sort in their lives.
— from Willie the Waif by Minie Herbert

he therefore try’d it, and found that it would open it as well as the other: he was in some kind of amaze to think of this, and the Gentleman not coming home, he began to suspect that all was not well: About noon he went in again into the Gentlemans Chamber, and knowing that he had lately received a considerable Sum of money, which he believ’d he had put in his Trunk, he therefore lifted up the Trunk in his hand to poize it, and feel if it were heavy; but it was light enough; they having already taken out all the money; he having set it down again saw lying by it a pocket-handkerchief, which, he being now grown curious, dilligently looked for the Marks of it, which he found not to be marked with the two Letters of the Gentlemans name, but
— from The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants, Comprehending the most Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes: The Third Part by Francis Kirkman

When their numbers are inferior, they choose some advantageous position on high rocks, where pronouncing every kind of abuse against their enemies, they challenge them to combat.
— from Rambles in Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro by R. H. R.

Before, I did nothing but heap my memory with knowledge of hooks; now I have had leisure to gather knowledge of a deeper kind.
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing

Apart from family links with the country, I didn't fancy being mewed up in an office from morning till night, with little prospect of getting to the top of the ladder, and not enough money for sport and the kind of amusements I like.
— from Star of India by Alice Perrin

I am indebted for knowledge of and information concerning this MS. to the kindness of Prof. Moore Smith, and of Dr. J. S. Reid, Librarian of Caius College.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

From what we could see and all we could learn, they are very considerably inferior to even the despised Digger Indians of California; inferior to all races of savages on our continent; inferior to even the Terra del Fuegans; inferior to the Hottentots, and actually inferior in some respects to the Kytches of Africa.
— from Roughing It, Part 2. by Mark Twain

Singing can clip more kilos off a hike, take more lead out of a pack, drive more dampness out of the clothing than anything else.
— from The Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 8, 1918 The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 by United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces