The ears burned on each side of my head as I listened, perforce, to tales of moral martyrdom inflicted by Rome; the dread boasts of confessors, who had wickedly abused their office, trampling to deep degradation high-born ladies, making of countesses and princesses the most tormented slaves under the sun.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

I began with my overshadowed childhood, and passed through those timid days to the heavy time when my aunt lay dead, with her resolute face so cold and set, and when I was more solitary with Mrs. Rachael than if I had had no one in the world to speak to or to look at.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Now he knows, that just so many, neither more nor less, can constitute the mode of cognition, and perceives the necessity of his division, which constitutes comprehension; and now only he has attained a System .
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

In the West the national machinery of commerce and politics turns out neatly compressed bales of humanity which have their use and high market value; but they are bound in iron hoops, labelled and separated off with scientific care and precision.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and lambs, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Methods of cultivating and preparing the berry for the market are substantially those that prevail elsewhere in South America.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

After having endured all but real suffocation for above a quarter of an hour in the tub, I was moved to the bed and wrapped in blankets.—There I lay a full hour panting with intolerable heat; but not the least moisture appearing on my skin, I was carried to my own chamber, and passed the night without closing an eye, in such a flutter of spirits as rendered me the most miserable wretch in being.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

TO THE DIOSCURI (5 lines) (ll. 1-4) Sing, clear-voiced Muse, of Castor and Polydeuces, the Tyndaridae, who sprang from Olympian Zeus.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

In this case, as you will only require the services of your own household domestics, you must, of course, attend personally to the wants of your guests.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

And yet, despite the terrible nature of the disaster which would attend any sensible diminution in the supply of this all-necessary and all-sufficient article of food, the methods of cultivation are primitive to the last degree, and are carried on with agricultural implements of the rudest possible character.
— from The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese by Ernest Young

In cases where the rich neglect their duty, the Positive priesthood will resort in the first instance to every method of conviction and persuasion that can be suggested by the education which the rich have received in common with other classes.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

So powerful is this instinctive faith that men of simple modes of character are prone to antedate its consummation.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The beauty of a stone may arise from its color or lack of color, from its translucency or opaqueness, from its high refraction of light, and from the manner of cutting and polishing to bring out these qualities.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

But for as much, as not onely the Country-farme , but also diuers other translated bookes, doe at large describe the manner of casting and proportioning these knots, I will not persist to write more curiously vpon them, but wish euery painefull gardiner which coueteth to be more satisfied therein, to repaire to those authors, where hée shall finde more large amplifications, and greater diuersities of knots, yet all tending to no more purpose then this which I haue all ready written.
— from The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments by Gervase Markham

Whether the rate of incidence has increased during recent years; ( c ) How New Zealand compares with other countries in this respect; (2) To inquire into and report upon the underlying causes for the occurrence of septic abortion in New Zealand, including medical, economic, social, and any other factors; (3) To advise as to the best means of combating and preventing the occurrence of septic abortion in New Zealand; (4) Generally to make any other observations or recommendations that appear appropriate to the Committee on the subject.
— from Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand by D. G. (David Gervan) McMillan

This detachment embarked in boats on the evening of the 18th of April, and, having proceeded a short distance up Charles river, landed on the marshes of Cambridge and proceeded to the village of Lexington , where it arrived at day-break and found a company of the militia formed up near the entrance of the town.
— from Historical Record of the Fifth Regiment of Foot, or Northumberland Fusiliers Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1674, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1837 by Richard Cannon