Other disciplines can find in it only a scientific interest, but it is practically and absolutely valuable only for us lawyers, who must, by means of language, take evidence, remember it, and variously interpret it.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

“John Milton of London,” the entry runs in English “son of John Milton, was initialed in the elements of letters under Mr Gill, Master of St Paul’s School; was admitted a lesser pensioner Feb. 12th, 1624
— from Cambridge and Its Colleges by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson

[ 54 ] While, however, we have laid open this nucleus of truth in the Incarnation, we have at the same time exhibited the dogma in its falsity; we have reduced the apparently supernatural and super-rational mystery to a simple truth inherent in human nature:—a truth which does not belong to the Christian religion alone, but which, implicitly at least, belongs more or less to every religion as such.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

," said Lenny, with a manner of laying the entire railway system at her feet.
— from Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale

Having yet large remains of a fine physical constitution, he seldom failed to appear at the bank in the morning—if not quite in time, yet within the margin of lateness that escaped rebuke.
— from A Rough Shaking by George MacDonald