I cannot enter here into details of building, though from the technological point of view, this is the most interesting phase, showing us the native at grips with real problems of construction.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

swefot = sweofot swēg (ǣ) m. sound , Æ, AO, CP: noise, clamour, tumult : melody, harmony, tone , Æ: voice : musical instrument : ‘ persona ,’ Sc .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

As often as in the spring and autumn they met in provincial synod, the difference of personal merit and reputation was very sensibly felt among the members of the assembly, and the multitude was governed by the wisdom and eloquence of the few.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

During an ensuing space of some minutes, I perceived she endured agony.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

He was magnificent from the outset; but when the decent sobrieties of the character began to give way, and the poison of self-love, in his conceit of the Countess's affection, gradually to work, you would have thought that the hero of La Mancha in person stood before you.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The scientific scheme in theory was alone sound, for science should be equivalent to money; in practice science was helpless without money.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Under the verdant shade of some mangroves I perceived some savages, who appeared greatly surprised at our approach.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Only the more intelligent ponies scented an occasional friendly and sociable bear.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

We had walked home as far as his apartments, in Berners Street, and arranged to meet in Percy Street, before the arrival of our beautiful and dear friends.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

THE AWAKENING: A SKETCH OF THE MUSICAL MOVEMENT IN PARIS SINCE 1870 It is not possible in a few pages to give an account of forty years of active and fruitful life without many omissions, and also without a certain dryness entailed by lists of names.
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland

The blue sky overhead and the eternal hills in sight above the walls of the simple wooden structure; the music so tender and solemn; the clear-browed peasants losing their identity in the fervid rendering of their parts; the enraptured attention of the auditory, whose lips moved in prayer sometimes, and whose eyes sometimes brimmed with tears, as if the scenes they watched were real—those were things to be remembered.
— from Romantic Spain: A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea

Among the many advantages enjoyed by the present generation, one of the most conspicuous is that arising from the large advance made in physical science.
— from The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood

Kutchin I. A communication, received in 1881, from Mr. Ivan Petroff , special agent United States census, transmitting a dialogue, taken down by himself in 1866, between the Kenaitze Indians on the lower Kinnik River, in Alaska, and some natives of the interior who called themselves Tennanah or Mountain-River-Men , belonging to the Tinne Kutchin tribe.
— from Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery

In some ways he was a more important public servant than he is to-day.
— from The Post Office and Its Story An interesting account of the activities of a great government department by Edward Bennett

Our debt to the great masters in physical science who overtook and almost out-stripped the task cannot be measured; and, under the honourable leadership of Ruskin, we may all well do penance if we have failed "in the respect due to their great powers of thought, or in the admiration due to the far scope of their discovery."
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

Military necessity demanded that “instead of losing both troops and place, we must, if possible, save the troops.
— from Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi by William C. Everhart