Notre-Dame de Paris is not of pure Romanesque, like the first; nor of pure Arabian race, like the second.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Taking notice of Pleasant Riderhood at the door, the man crossed so quickly that she was still winding herself up, when he stood close before her.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

II adpropinquô nâvigô occupô postulô recûsô reportô servô stô superô temptô vâstô vulnerô contineô egeô prohibeô respondeô teneô CONJ.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The following is the formation of the string quartet and the number of players required in present day orchestras, either in the theatre or concert-room.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Not only psychic research, but metaphysical philosophy and speculative biology are led in their own ways to look with favour on some such “pan-psychic” view of the universe as this.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

It makes us feel that this world is so far at least a rational and a moral order, that there holds in it the law, not of proportionate requital, but of strict connection between act and consequence.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

II adpropinquō nāvigō occupō postulō recūsō reportō servō stō superō temptō vāstō vulnerō contineō egeō prohibeō respondeō teneō CONJ.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

All he could make out was, that it was still very foggy and extremely cold, and that there was no noise of people running to and fro, and making a great stir, as there unquestionably would have been if night had beaten off bright day, and taken possession of the world.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

Many a naturalist of pure reason (by which I mean the man who believes he can decide in matters of metaphysics without any science) may pretend, that he long ago by the prophetic spirit of his sound sense, not only suspected, but knew and comprehended, what is here propounded with so much ado, or, if he likes, with prolix and pedantic pomp: "that with all our reason we can never reach beyond the field of experience."
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

A strong note of pride reinforcing the gravity of the priest’s voice made Stephen’s heart quicken in response.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The total number of paupers resident in American almshouses is 67,000, or about one in every 70,000 of the whole population.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 by Various

You are scholar enough to concede to me that it is no ignoble homage which either nations or persons render to the ancestral Dead—that homage is an instinct in all but vulgar and sordid natures.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 12 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

This ledge Grenville not only promptly rendered accessible, but, after the opening had once been cleared, he fashioned a door of the lightest construction, that still resembled solid rock, with which to conceal it again.
— from As It Was in the Beginning by Philip Verrill Mighels

The condition in which the people lived, the influences to which they were subjected, the sunken and immoral state of a vast number of parents, rendered it next to impossible to produce any permanent improvement in many brought into our schools; and so long as you should leave the condition of your great towns, in all their sanitary, social, and domestic arrangements, such as at present, a large proportion of your efforts would be vain, Page 234 {234} and the education you could give nearly fruitless."
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

At all events, on the 2d of March, 1508, he appointed Americus Vespucius to be pilot-in-chief ( piloto mayor ) at Seville, with a salary of fifty thousand maravedis, with these duties: first, to make sure that the pilots understood the use of astrolabe and quadrant; second, to make out a table of positions, to bear the name of Padron real, and serve the sole purpose of fixing maritime routes; third, to oblige pilots after each voyage to explain, in the presence of the officers of La Casa de Contratacion and of the piloto mayor , the exact position of the newly discovered lands, and also any corrections in the bearings of coasts, in order that all necessary changes might be recorded in the Padron real .[Footnote
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

But it should be remembered in the discussion which follows that all existing exclusions from the mails can be justified as partaking of the nature of police regulations; the prohibited articles are either inherently injurious, inimical to the health, safety and well being of recipients, or the use of the mails is denied because it would be in furtherance of a design that is condemned by moral considerations or is against public policy.
— from The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion by Lindsay Rogers

While we were certainly not rich—there was not one positively rich family among us—we were comfortably provided with all the necessities of life.
— from The Jamesons by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman