As I have naturally an Aversion to much Speaking, and do not love to be the Messenger of ill News, especially when it comes too late to be useful, I left him to be convinced of his Mistake in due time, and continued my Walk, reflecting on these little Absences and Distractions in Mankind, and resolving to make them the Subject of a future Speculation.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Then he leaned his chin upon his hand, and with large, wistful eyes regarded his ugly captive as it sprawled about, blinking its meal-bedimmed eyes, and clawing the smooth floor in memory of its native element.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Not much of it now, except among the poor.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Nevertheless, he was opposed to the universal suffrage, in its wide extent, that does actually exist; as I suppose quite three-fourths of the whole population are opposed to it, in their hearts, though no political man of influence, now existing, has the moral calibre necessary to take the lead in putting it down.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Dray started at 7.40 a.m. and at six and three-quarter miles distant got to Mallapoorponannie sand range, the southern end of which is called Cookorda; about two miles off its northern end dwindles down to nothing in the desert.
— from McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia by John McKinlay

Refining the flour to the whiteness of the so-called best qualities takes out most of its nutritive elements, while the lower grades or brown flours retain the gluten, and make a bread which is preferred when one becomes familiar with it.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

Left to ourselves we can only liken the process to that followed by a man who peels off the outer layer of an onion, eats the interior part, and when he is satisfied throws down the outer layer and thinks no more of it; not even that he might be asked what had become of the interior part.
— from New Theories in Astronomy by Willam Stirling

Anti-slavery men, Theodore Parker on the first duty of, 109 ; meetings of, in New England, 171 .
— from The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history by Wilbur Henry Siebert

Clemency, in the midst of its noblest efforts, is perfectly passionless; pity is unreasoning emotion.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

" "That has been my observation in nearly every instance," said Miss Dean, slowly.
— from For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store by Lurana Sheldon

Earthworm, utility of, in agriculture, 100 ; multiplication of, in New England, 101 .
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

one’s own glory as a member of it, nor even for its glory as a Nation:
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1 by Edward FitzGerald