It is safe to say there was no one present who bore quite the attitude which Mrs. Sommers did to her surroundings.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

The small loaves, or biscuit, of six ounces each, had obtained the name of Paximacia, (Rosweyde, Onomasticon, p. 1045.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It may be easily imagined how great was our joy when, in turning over this manuscript, our last hope, we found at the twentieth page the name of Athos, at the twenty-seventh the name of Porthos, and at the thirty-first the name of Aramis.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Not one passer-by, not a door open, not a head out of window.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

proceeded on passed a Clift of White & Blue or Dark earths of 2 miles in extent on the L. S. and Camped on a Sand bar opposed the old village Called Pitite Arc a Small Creek falls into the river 15 yds wide below the Village on the Same Side L. S this village was built by a Indian Chief of the Maha nation by the name of Pitite arc (or little Bow) displeasd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The great number of people maintained by the fertile lands afford a market to many parts of the produce of the barren, which they could never have found among those whom their own produce could maintain.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Edward answers by fresh assurances of secrecy, and again urges on him the necessity of procuring some venison.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

“For then we have need of pleasure when we grieve, because pleasure is not present; but when we do not grieve, then we have no need of pleasure; and on this account, we affirm, that pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily; for we have recognized this as the first good, being connate with us; and with reference to it, it is that we begin every choice and avoidance; and to this we come as if we judged of all good by passion as the standard; and, since this is the first good and connate with us, on this account we do not choose every pleasure, but at times we pass over many pleasures when any difficulty is likely to ensue from them; and we think many [471] pains better than pleasures, when a greater pleasure follows them, if we endure the pain for a time.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

It is his extremely intense need of playing which thus finds a [Pg 67] means of expressing itself, just as in the other case the violent sentiments caused by pain created an object out of nothing.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The wife of Shah Abbas, observing that great numbers of people were wont to gather and to talk politics in the leading coffee house of Ispahan, appointed a mollah—an [Pg 22] ecclesiastical teacher and expounder of the law—to sit there daily to entertain the frequenters of the place with nicely turned points of history, law, and poetry.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In 1870, when the persecution of the Roumanian Jews, which had been started in 1868, was growing from bad to worse, our government, at the instance of the Order of B'nai B'rith, (as noted on page 428 ), established a diplomatic agency at [542] Bucharest.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

But seeing that we were a fearless people, and determined to have no other priest but one whom we could understand, he, at last promised us again, a French priest, if we were ready to pay the debt of our church and priest-house.
— from Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy

Asphyxia takes place whenever the proportion of carbonic acid in the external air reaches ten per cent., providing the oxygen is diminished in like proportion, and it does not matter whether this condition of the external air is produced by shutting out fresh air from a room or by increasing the number of persons who are consuming the same air; or by permitting the air to be deprived of oxygen by combustion by a fire.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

No one pretends that we have even the beginnings of a plant psychology.
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

As the society of the Villa habitually was made up of a certain number of intimates, relieved, from time to time, by such strangers as were presented, and as my father never dined out, or went into the fashionable world of the place, it was somewhat of a bold step at once to invite a number of persons with whom we had no more than bowing acquaintance, and to ask to his table ministers, envoys, court officials, and grand chamberlains for the first time.
— from That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever

Hawtry lowered the sail, and standing up, shouted,— "Throw us a rope!" A number of persons had been attracted to the side, and one of the officers, seeing two young midshipmen in the boat, at once threw a rope to them, while the officer on duty ordered the engines to be stopped.
— from Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

She now walked abroad with the stake in her hand and killed quite a number of people with this formidable weapon.
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

I have known a number of cases where a man who seemed thoroughly commonplace and unemotional has all at once surprised everybody by telling the story of his hidden life far more pointedly and dramatically than any playwright or novelist or poet could have told it for him.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is not our place to inquire why they believe in a condition of affairs which we know does not exist.
— from Spain from Within by Rafael Shaw