Therefore I fain would consecrate a lay Unto thy honour, Tree, beloved of those Who now in blessed sleep, for aye, repose, Dearer than life to me, alas!
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

On being removed from this perilous situation, it was discovered that he had suffered no injury but several bruises; and, we are happy to add, is now doing well.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

The contingency of the combination of the parts, in order that a definite form of the whole shall be possible, is not implied by such an Understanding and its representation of the whole.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

and though she was not in bed, she lay all day half-reclining on the couch in her boudoir, in a fascinating but decorous déshabillé .
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But as a matter of fact, far from imposing such a renunciation upon the whole tribe, each clan, by rites which we shall describe below, takes care that the plant or animal whose name it bears shall increase and prosper, [Pg 177] so as to assure an abundant supply of food for the other clans.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The first are well known, far and near: I briefly sketch the other here.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

What number in Belgrave Square?
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

Here I was undertaking to chair a committee to sell the things and Gawd knows my heart ought to of been in it with Jim over there and all, and it was, only getting bored with the war is kind of natural, it being so far off and nothing likely to do us personal bodily injury on the Avenue unless maybe the restaurants or a auto and that our own fault.
— from Believe You Me! by Nina Wilcox Putnam

He tells us that “Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus made greater progresses in the several empires of science than any of their successors have since been able to reach;” which is just as absurd as if he had said that the greatest names in British science are Merlin, Michael Scott, Dr. Sydenham, and Lord Bacon.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Even now it belonged so sensibly to them that his own reverent footsteps sounded to him harshly intrusive upon the bare, uneven floors.
— from The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet

What her good friend, Charles Dudley Warner, wrote about her in Harper's Magazine in 1896 was true then, and it remains true now: "I believe she is the purest-minded human ever in existence....
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

"The brutes smell Injuns, just as sure as my [Pg 114] name is Blinky Small," declared Blinky emphatically.
— from The Boy Scouts on the Range by John Henry Goldfrap

“My name is Botster,” she said, aloud, “and one thing I know for certain, madame, that you never were a cousin of mine.”
— from My Lady Nobody: A Novel by Maarten Maartens

It is not I, but she, who lulls the dear creature into dreams for which I am not responsible.
— from A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern

In all earlidr kinds of glass, however, the dispersive power increased with the refractive index; that is, v decreased as n increased; but some of the Jena glasses by E. Abbe and O. Schott were crown glasses of high refractive index, and achromatic systems from such crown glasses, with flint glasses of lower refractive index, are called the ``new achromats,'' and were employed by P. Rudolph in the first ``anastigmats'' (photographic objectives).
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg