He, therefore, took the inconsiderate, though laudable design, into his head, of making a reform in Portugal, or perishing in the attempt; and determined to sacrifice his prudence to his zeal, though he became a martyr upon the occasion.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The music again resounded; Iday played on the harp, while the men handled the accordions and guitars with greater or less skill.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

But when they have been applied to the magnet and received its peculiar power, from that moment they point to the north, and are true to the pole ever after.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

For in many cases the effect of competition is to make a rise in price absolutely necessary.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

Thereupon followed a general revival in our circle; my exuberant good spirits astonished every one, and my Avenarius relations in particular thought I must really be prospering, as I was such good company.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

When we voluntarily turn our thoughts to any object, and raise up its image in the fancy, it is not the will which creates that idea: It is the universal Creator, who discovers it to the mind, and renders it present to us.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

I made a remark, in passing, which naturally elicited a question about my meaning from you.
— from Laws by Plato

Hence the historical germ of the great epic is to be traced to a very early period, which cannot well be later than the tenth century B.C. Old songs about the ancient feud and the heroes who played a part in it, must have been handed down by word of mouth and recited in popular assemblies or at great public sacrifices.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

She walked indolently along, with a mind at rest, its peace reflected in her innocent face.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

"Your engagement with me always ranks in precedence of others; and I am sure Mr. Ferguson will not mind looking for another partner."
— from Fern Vale; or, the Queensland Squatter. Volume 3 by Colin Munro

The wonderful speculation hinted at by Col. Sellers in his letter turned out to be the raising of mules for the Southern market; and really it promised very well.
— from The Gilded Age, Part 1. by Charles Dudley Warner

Should I abandon it all, take the good things with which God had provided me, and retire into private life?
— from The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope

Its title-page demands perusal: “Daphnis and Chloe excellently describing the weight of affection, the simplicitie of love, the purport of honest meaning, the resolution of men, and disposition of Fate, finished in a Pastorall, and interlaced with the praises of a most peerlesse Princesse, wonderfull in Maiestie, and rare in perfection, celebrated within the same Pastorall, and therefore termed by the name of The Shepheards Holidaie.
— from Essays on the Greek Romances by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight

The spermatogenic cycle begins in May and reaches its peak in September, when large numbers of sperm and spermatids are present in the testes; the cycle is completed in October, when sperm pass into the epididymides.
— from Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler

And that she'd go, when Mrs. Jones, To Davy Jones's locker; Then gave her head a little toss That said as plain as ever was, If men are always at a loss Mere womankind to bridle — To try the thing on woman cross, Were fifty times as idle; For she a strict resolve had made And registered in private,
— from Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

The four cocks K, have regulating rods connected to them in the way common in steam and other engines, so that as each tube comes into a vertical position the cock attached to it is opened, and as it passes from that position towards the horizontal, is shut, so that the mercury always retains its proper position in the tubes or cylinders, and is acted on by the pressure of the atmosphere at those points only where such pressure can be of service.
— from Perpetual Motion by Percy Verance

The region is strongly marked by mineral appearances, rendering it probable that other substances of value, besides lead, may exist in that vicinity.
— from Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The references to the Deutsches Museum are respectively IX, pp.
— from Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer