The self achieves mind in the degree in which knowledge of things is incarnate in the life about him; the self is not a separate mind building up knowledge anew on its own account.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

He may be unselfish, kind-hearted, even just in his own way, but his first job is to provide and to hold fast.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Mangígi bísan ug kaugalíngung anak, He would drive even his own son out.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Aníay mga biskwit ug kúkis kun gustu mung magkaunkáun (magkaunkaun), Here are some biscuits and cookies for your snacks.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Akuy mupraktis sa mga bátà ug kanta, I’ll train the children how to sing.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Upon this Helgé assembled his people to hear the word which the messengers were to carry to their master, but unfortunately King Halfdan gave way to his waggish humour, and made scoffing reference to the advanced age of the royal suitor.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Wherever you may be upon Kondalian Osnome, which from this day henceforth shall be all Osnome, you have power as my personal representative, as my eldest son."
— from The Skylark of Space by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Perhaps by trying more familiar ways we may better understand Keats, why he appeals so strongly to poets, and why he is so seldom read by other people.
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Unfortunately, in the moment of success the magazine blew up, killing Pike and making sad havoc among his men.
— from A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele

This compilation, bearing the title Glossa ordinaria or magistralis, but usually known as the Great Gloss, though written in barbarous Latin, has more method than that of any preceding writer on the subject.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Most buyers used Kaypros to write or type.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

Then bewildered, stunned, and utterly crushed in spirit, I hastily excused myself to Courtenay upon the plea of having received distressing news from England, and, obeying the same impulse which impels a wounded animal to rush away and hide itself and its suffering in the deepest solitudes, I turned my back upon Kingston, with its busy bustling streets, and hastened to bury myself among the hills.
— from The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by Harry Collingwood

And I wished to give our meeting the greatest possible publicity, so that your defeat might be universally known and no new Comtesse de Crozon nor Baron d'Imblevalle be tempted to solicit your aid against me.
— from The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective by Maurice Leblanc

And then he gives a version of what he says he had understood me to say!—but what, I hope, I have satisfactorily explained to your lordships that I did not say; and upon that misunderstanding he is proceeding to argue, as if I had not already corrected his misapprehension!" Notwithstanding even this rebuke, delivered with a singularly expressive smile, Earl Grey returned to the charge, manifestly bent upon kindling, at the earliest possible moment, popular excitement, and "consternation" in sympathy with his own.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 by Various