To gratify the boy, however, she took it off her neck, and put it into the boy’s hand.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

She was only a girl, and she looked like a thousand others I have seen, but never a girl provoked such a novel and peculiar interest in me before.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Capital is, therefore, not a personal, it is a social power.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

It was solved by showing that there is no real contradiction when the events and even the world in which they occur are regarded (as they ought to be) merely as appearances; since one and the same acting being, as an appearance (even to his own inner sense), has a causality in the world of sense that always conforms to the mechanism of nature, but with respect to the same events, so far as the acting person regards himself at the same time as a noumenon (as pure intelligence in an existence not dependent on the condition of time), he can contain a principle by which that causality acting according to laws of nature is determined, but which is itself free from all laws of nature.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

There is something that comes to one now and perpetually, It is not what is printed, preach'd, discussed, it eludes discussion and print, It is not to be put in a book, it is not in this book, It is for you whoever you are, it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you, It is hinted by nearest, commonest, readiest, it is ever provoked by them.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Now, those who care for the interests of a part of the citizens and neglect another part, introduce into the civil service a dangerous element—dissension and party strife.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Exterior Form Of North America North America presents in its external form certain general features which it is easy to discriminate at the first glance.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

As the power of intercommunication is certainly of high service to many animals, there is no a priori improbability in the supposition, that gestures manifestly of an opposite nature to those by which certain feelings are already expressed, should at first have been voluntarily employed under the influence of an opposite state of feeling.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

It was the wildest mob Virginia had ever seen and the most determined and ungovernable; and when at last it abated its fury and dispersed, it had not a penny in its pocket.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

A man must have had his very nose upon this fatality, or better still he must have experienced it in his own soul; he must almost have perished through it, in order to be unable to treat this matter lightly (—the free-spiritedness of our friends the naturalists and physiologists is, in my opinion, a joke, —what they lack in these questions is passion, what they lack is having suffered from these questions—).
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

After seeing that part of the Alhambra I really thought there was nothing else left to see, and a second time was imprudent enough to say so to Gongora: this time he could no longer contain himself, and, leading me into a vestibule of the Court of Myrtles and pointing to a map of the building hanging on the wall, he said, "Look, and you will see that all the rooms of the courts and the towers that we have so far visited do not occupy one-twentieth part of the space embraced within the walls of the Alhambra; you will see that we have not yet visited the remains of the three other mosques, the ruins of the House of Cadi, the water-tower, the tower of the Infantas, the tower of the Prisoner, the tower of Candil, the tower of the Picos, the tower of the Daggers, the tower of the Siete Suelos , the tower of the Captain, the tower of the Witch, the tower of the Heads, the tower of Arms, the tower of the Hidalgos, the tower of the Cocks, the tower of the Cube, the tower of Homage, the tower of Vela, the Powder Tower, the remains of the House of Mondejar, the military quarters, the iron gate, the inner walls, the cisterns, the promenades; for I would have you know that the Alhambra is not a palace: it is a city, and one could spend his life in studying its arabesques, reading its inscriptions, and every day discovering a new view of the hills and mountains, and going 218 into ecstasies regularly once every twenty-four hours."
— from Spain, v. 2 (of 2) by Edmondo De Amicis

I need not ask, perhaps, if in the course of your—ah—excavations you have come on any traces of the original pre-Augustine Oratory, or of the conventual buildings which existed here till, we are told, the middle of the thirteenth century."
— from The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Magnanimity is not a prominent ingredient in political character, and some factious objections were made, by Mr. Aiken soon put a stop to them.
— from Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore

Benevolence was natural to her, but she was not always prudent in its exercise.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

They wanted a home; but home is not a place, it is a state.
— from A Vanished Hand by Sarah Doudney

Then she took the string off his neck and put it in her pocket.
— from For His Country, and Grandmother and the Crow by Marshall Saunders

But the factory is not content with thus disarranging the ancient scheme of things by invading the housewife's province; it has dragged a large number of women, yearly increasing in number and proportion, into industry.
— from The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson

In the side walls there is a range of windows at gallery level; five on each side of the eastern nave bay, three in the south wall of the western nave bay, but none, at present, in its northern wall.
— from Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen

Could one of you take it now, and put it in your family safe?" he asked.
— from The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest; Or, the Wig Wag Rescue by Lilian Garis