Having developed in the spirit the consciousness of its meanings and purposes, Socrates rescued logic and ethics for ever from authority.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It was so good to open up one’s lungs and take in whole luscious barrels-ful of the blessed God’s untainted, dew-fashioned, woodland-scented air once more, after suffocating body and mind for two days and nights in the moral and physical stenches of that intolerable old buzzard-roost!
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

A new-born fear passed through his mind that this might, perhaps, be one of those “pretty ways” of making a prisoner speak, which had been attributed to Boris.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

There were so many beautiful flowers peeping through the dwarf, green bushes, that, wishing to inspect them nearer, Mat kindly ran the canoe ashore, and told me that he would show me a pretty spot, where an Indian, who had been drowned during a storm off that point, was buried.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Thus the most depraved of men always pay some sort of homage to public faith; and even robbers, who are the enemies of virtue in the great society, pay some respect to the shadow of it in their secret caves.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ARMY SURGEONS—AID DEFICIENCIES I must bear my most emphatic testimony to the zeal, manliness, and professional spirit and capacity, generally prevailing among the surgeons, many of them young men, in the hospitals and the army.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

MACHIAVEL as Prologue speaker.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

'To peep and mutter,' as pretended sorcerers or magicians attempting their incantations against the truth.-Ed. 13.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Eight years before this time, Norfolk Island had been first made a penal settlement; and never during all that period had its wretched inhabitants received any such reproof, consolation, or instruction as the Church gives to its members.
— from Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants by W. (William) Pridden

She looked very beautiful, I must say, that morning, and perfectly self-possessed; but poor Sir Victor!
— from A Terrible Secret: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

In medicine and pharmacy , substances which exert a chemical action on each other, and cannot, therefore, with propriety, be prescribed together in the same 877.png 864 formula or prescription.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Movement in a hostile trench was irresistible, and many a pilot shot off his engine, glided across the lines, and let his observer spray with bullets the home of the Hun.
— from Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott

34 Patty was really thinking of something else, and said this so perfunctorily that Floyd Austin drawled out: “Having made a polite speech, the young lady promptly forgot the very presence of the gentleman who was addressing her.”
— from Patty's Pleasure Trip by Carolyn Wells

Exemplar Epistolæ seu literarum Missiuarum, quas illustrissimus Princeps Eduardus eius nominis Sextus, Angliæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Rex, misit ad Principes Septentrionalem, ac Orientalem mundi plagam inhabitantes iuxta mare glaciale, nec non Indiam Orientalem; Anno Domini 1553 Regni sui anno septimo, et vltimo.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt

Every experimenter in science is simply one who is inquiring of Nature for her analogies, truths, forms, forces, and machines; and like the wise and good mother that she is, she has granted many a pregnant suggestion to the busy brains of discoverers and inventors.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, June 1885, No. 9 by Chautauqua Institution