The error of the notion that by appeal to spontaneous tendencies and by multiplication of materials we may completely dismiss logical considerations, lies in overlooking how large a part curiosity, inference, experimenting, and testing already play in the pupil's life.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

My aunt, with whom she gradually became familiar, always called her Little Blossom; and the pleasure of Miss Lavinia’s life was to wait upon her, curl her hair, make ornaments for her, and treat her like a pet child.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

But it is most essential that the confession shall be internally tested, i.e. examined for logical and psychological consistency.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Look at poor cropped and dilapidated “Baalbec,” and weep for the sentiment that has been wasted upon the Selims of romance!
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

after completing the paddles &c and takeing Some Brackfast I set out the Current I find much Stronger below the forks than above and the river tolerably streight as low as panther Creek when it became much more Crooked the Wind rose and blew hard off the Snowey mountains to the N. W. and renderd it very difficuelt to keep the canoes from running against the Shore at 2 P.M. the Canoe in which I was in was driven by a Suden puff of wind under a log which projected over the water from the bank, and the man in the Stern Howard was Caught in between the Canoe and the log and a little hurt after disingaging our selves from this log the canoe was driven imediately under a drift which projected over and a little abov the Water, here the Canoe was very near turning over we with much exertion after takeing out Some of the baggage hauled her out, and proceeded on without receving any damage.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

"Spoken like a philosopher!" cried the Woggle-Bug, as he assisted the Tin Woodman to set Jack upon his feet.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

I made out a pale face with soft lines, a prominent chin, and long dark lashes.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then, as specimens of other genera, blowfish resembling a dark brown egg, furrowed with white bands, and lacking tails; globefish, genuine porcupines of the sea, armed with stings and able to inflate themselves until they look like a pin cushion bristling with needles; seahorses common to every ocean; flying dragonfish with long snouts and highly distended pectoral fins shaped like wings, which enable them, if not to fly, at least to spring into the air; spatula–shaped paddlefish whose tails are covered with many scaly rings; snipefish with long jaws, excellent animals twenty–five centimeters long and gleaming with the most cheerful colors; bluish gray dragonets with wrinkled heads; myriads of leaping blennies with black stripes and long pectoral fins, gliding over the surface of the water with prodigious speed; delicious sailfish that can hoist their fins in a favorable current like so many unfurled sails; splendid nurseryfish on which nature has lavished yellow, azure, silver, and gold; yellow mackerel with wings made of filaments; bullheads forever spattered with mud, which make distinct hissing sounds; sea robins whose livers are thought to be poisonous; ladyfish that can flutter their eyelids; finally, archerfish with long, tubular snouts, real oceangoing flycatchers, armed with a rifle unforeseen by either Remington or Chassepot: it slays insects by shooting them with a simple drop of water.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Once or twice a little group of men had looked at Philip curiously as he passed; he heard a mutter of observations and then one say: "It's the 'orspital doctor."
— from Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Up to the very last day he resigns himself even when his personal safety and that of his family is at stake, to constitutional law and public common sense.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

"There'th a thnow flake that lookth like a plant!" cried Dicky who had slipped open the window wide enough to capture an especially large feather.
— from Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

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— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1952 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Roosevelt reports that an elephant was seen to destroy in rage a thorn tree that had pricked its trunk; [161] and that in America he himself saw a bear that was burying a carcass, and lost hold of it and rolled over, strike it a savage whack, like a pettish child.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

"Oh! that it were granted to human power to guide the course of clouds and the fate of men to light and peace," cried the pastor's daughter; "but as the moonlight silvers the black cloud, so must our hopes and prayers accompany those whom
— from For Sceptre and Crown: A Romance of the Present Time. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gregor Samarow

The current quickens, the faint sound grows louder, and presently coming to the brink of a rocky chasm we behold the cataract of Caldron Snout.
— from A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White

Æstheticism of a pronounced sort was becoming the fashion of the day in London; and, as I presently found, Mr. Rawlence followed the fashions of London and Paris closely.
— from The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

“The Caliph Othman,” 80 writes Gibbon, 81 “promised the government of Khorāsān to the first general who should enter that large and populous country, the kingdom of the ancient Bactrians.
— from The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times by Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir

In more vital questions of morality, though Venice had never maintained a high standard, even for Italy, she now fell lower, and private crime went almost unpunished.
— from Europe in the Sixteenth Century, 1494-1598, Fifth Edition Period 4 (of 8), Periods of European History by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Johnson