He was one of that small, and now all but extinguished, class whose attachment to royalty, and to the colonial institutions and customs that were connected with it, had never yielded to the democratic heresies of after-times.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

These two poems are as near as Burns ever comes to appreciating nature for its own sake.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

We thus had two distinct and separate sets of orgies, which had all the natural effect of novelty, and by exciting comparison, making us turn from one to the other with renewed passions and power of enjoyment.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Night had closed in, and the temperature, which had modified when the wind shifted to the northwest, again became extremely cold.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

X. So long as we are not assailed by emotions contrary to our nature, we have the power of arranging and associating the modifications of our body according to the intellectual order.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

So long, therefore, as we are not assailed by emotions contrary to our nature, the mind's power, whereby it endeavours to understand things (IV. xxvi.), is not impeded, and therefore it is able to form clear and distinct ideas and to deduce them one from another (II. xl. note.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

The habit of sauntering, and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily, acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work and his tools every half hour, and to apply his hand in twenty different ways almost every day of his life, renders him almost always slothful and lazy, and incapable of any vigorous application, even on the most pressing occasions.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

--William, Duke of Normandy, accompanied by Eustatius, Count of Boulogne, and followed by his Knights in arms.--Military Dress of the Eleventh Century, from Bayeux Tapestry said to have been worked by Queen Matilda.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

"I'm willing to stand for nearly anything, but eating crow is too, too much.
— from Storm-Bound; or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts by Douglas, Alan, Captain

Yet having myself removed that impediment, by clearing away the dung, and putting a few ants to the hole, on going to the place some time after, I have seen them collected in great numbers, all busily employed carrying away in their mouths pieces of the borer, whom they had ferretted out of its hole and killed.
— from The History of the Island of Dominica Containing a Description of Its Situation, Extent, Climate, Mountains, Rivers, Natural Productions, &c. &c. by Thomas Atwood

Henceforth they saw Christ, not, as before, ever coming and going, but as the ever-present, the abiding One.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St Luke by Henry Burton

He was one of that small, and now all but extinguished, class, whose attachment to royalty, and to the colonial institutions and customs that were connected with it, had never yielded to the democratic heresies of after times.
— from Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It will fall into the course of nature and be effectually concealed by publicness.
— from Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

So long as we are not assailed by emotions contrary to our nature, we have the power of arranging and associating the modifications of our body according to the intellectual order.
— from Ethics — Part 5 by Benedictus de Spinoza

The name Nisroch, by the way, is evidently the same word as nesher , and bears even closer resemblance to the Arabic niss'r .
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood

Now to my mind, these circumstances indicate clearly, that it is not wind, i. e. , mere currents of air, which produces the effect, but that a continuous current or stream of electricity from the earth to the cloud exists, and carries with it from near the earth, such articles as are movable: That this stream collects from the northerly and southerly side upon the magnetic meridian , in two currents with polarity , which meet in their passage up at the center; curving toward the center in the posterior part as the spout moves on, when acting in a normal manner, and making the “ law of curvature ” observed: That no conceivable movement of the air alone in such limited spaces could produce such effects; or if so, that no agent but electricity could so move the air: That the air in a building could not shoot the roof upward, and into fragments; much less could the air in a cellar by any conceivable force, be made to elevate or shoot up the entire house, and
— from The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes by T. B. (Thomas Belden) Butler