Indeed, I am sorry to say there was too much reason for this conjecture; the lad having from his earliest years discovered a propensity to many vices, and especially to one which hath as direct a tendency as any other to that fate which we have just now observed to have been prophetically denounced against him: he had been already convicted of three robberies, viz., of robbing an orchard, of stealing a duck out of a farmer's yard, and of picking Master Blifil's pocket of a ball.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

And the thoughts at times puzzled him sorely; he could not see just why the circle was not square, and carried it out fifty-six decimal places one midnight,—would have gone further, indeed, had not the matron rapped for lights out.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

-l-un(→) n powdered matter ready for sifting.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Jesuits are merely a Romish army making ready for their future temporal kingdom, with a mitred emperor—a Roman high priest at their head.
— from The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Doubtless, however, these considerations will not suffice to convince those who most need convincing; and it is necessary further to show, that these developed human beings are of some use to the undeveloped—to point out to those who do not desire liberty, and would not avail themselves of it, that they may be in some intelligible manner rewarded for allowing other people to make use of it without hindrance.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Old and gnarled it may be, and yet you don’t cut down the old fellow to make room for the flowerbeds, but lay out your beds so as to take advantage of the tree.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He made hard conditions with the people, many of whom he sent away to the suburbs to make room for his Castilians.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

"What is it you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most respect for.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

It gave him more respect for Carrie.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

On the other hand when the female exceeds the male in point of size, her union with a man immediately next to her in size is called low union, and is of two kinds; while her union with a man most remote from her in size is called the lowest union, and is of one kind only.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

It is the agent also which is mainly responsible for the segregation of mineral deposits.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

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— from Your Boys by Gipsy Smith

The fugitives, who were by then only a few yards clear of the camp, realised that something unforeseen had marred their plan and that they must run for it.
— from The Tunnellers of Holzminden (with a side-issue) by H. G. (Hugh George) Durnford

Then he lifted Paul out and carried him into the lighthouse and Mr. Ray followed.
— from Five Little Friends by Sherred Willcox Adams

Now clean off your palette and mix some mat relief for the fish-net, which is to be placed over and across a portion of the plate; with a lead-pencil mark the netting on the plate, but do not touch the fish; then with a very fine brush follow the markings with the relief, when it is necessary to paint across the fish, your eye and the copy must be your guides, as it would take the paint off the fish to attempt any marking on it.
— from How to Amuse Youself and Others: The American Girl's Handy Book by Lina Beard

You have no right to run away; you owe me reparation for the suffering I have undergone.
— from John Herring: A West of England Romance. Volume 3 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

If we build on the foundation of the first three alone, we end in materialism; if we leave the last unused, we reach positivism; if we make religious feeling the sole judge of truth, mysticism is the outcome.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

On the stairs I met a woman with a travelling-bag in her hand, who squeezed diffidently against the wall to make room for me, and I voluntarily thrust my hand in my pocket for something to give her, and looked foolish as I found nothing and passed on with my head down.
— from Hunger by Knut Hamsun

The Girl who by this time had learnt his Name and Quality, was not a little confounded at the pressing Importunities of a Person of his Worth to a poor Girl of her little Capacity, and notwithstanding her modest Refusals, felt a secret Pride from so kind an offer, and at last accepted of his Service home.
— from The Notorious Impostor (1692); Diego Redivivus (1692) by Elkanah Settle

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