It appears to be as characteristic a trait of the race as the long beard and the Sabbath silk hat of ancient pedigree.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

There is not a conjunction or a preposition, and hardly an adverbial phrase, syntactic form, or inflection of voice, in human speech, that does not express some shading or other of relation which we at some moment actually feel to exist between the larger objects of our thought.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

" A movement of assent passed through the Assembly.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

He is blind only to one individual stroke of that kind in a particular position on the board or paper—that is to a particular complex object; and, paradoxical as it may seem to say so, he must distinguish it with great accuracy from others like it, in order to remain blind to it when the others are brought near.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Miss Vincy was alone, and blushed so deeply when Lydgate came in that he felt a corresponding embarrassment, and instead of any playfulness, he began at once to speak of his reason for calling, and to beg her, almost formally, to deliver the message to her father.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Newfoundland is an Island on the North Continent of America , contained between the 46 and 53° of N. Latitude, discovered first by St. Sebastion Cabot A. D. 1497, but never settled till the Year 1610; when Mr. Guy of Bristol revived the Affair, and obtained a Patent, and himself to be Governor.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Fear of any particular enemy is certainly an instinctive quality, as may be seen in nestling birds, though it is strengthened by experience, and by the sight of fear of the same enemy in other animals.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

These combinations will go on succeeding each other, until at last a federation of all powers is formed for the establishment of perpetual peace.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

That there are ideas, some or other, always present in the mind of a waking man, every one’s experience convinces him; though the mind employs itself about them with several degrees of attention.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Hence the ius sacrum , the body of rights and duties in the matter of religion, is regarded as a department of the ius publicum , the fundamental constitution of the state, and it is significant, as Marquardt has observed, that it was Numa, a king and lawgiver, and not a prophet or a poet, who was looked upon as the founder of the Roman religion.
— from The Religion of Ancient Rome by Cyril Bailey

They are said to have been of a peculiar shape; and they were equally famous for size, speed, and stoutness.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3: Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

I promised, however, that in the event of my observing anything in the nature of a policeman stealthily approaching the hut I would at once seek sanctuary on the Betty —an assurance which might have sounded worthless to some people, but certainly seemed to comfort Joyce.
— from A Rogue by Compulsion An Affair of the Secret Service by Victor Bridges

The salon d’Esgrignon represented the upper aristocracy (the returning Troisvilles attached themselves to it); the Cormon salon represented, under the clever influence of du Bousquier, that fatal class of opinions which, without being truly liberal or resolutely royalist, gave birth to the 221 on that famous day when the struggle openly began between the most august, grandest, and only true power, royalty , and the most false, most changeful, most oppressive of all powers,—the power called parliamentary , which elective assemblies exercise.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The Frue Kirke occupies a prominent place among the attractions of Copenhagen, and is now associated in my mind with a characteristic little incident.
— from William Nelson: A Memoir by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

The Work of the Vocational Counselor The plan now followed in the technical high schools of the city, by which one teacher in the school specially qualified for such work is charged with the duty of advising pupils who leave school and aiding them in securing desirable employment, could be adapted to the junior high school, where the need for service of this kind is even greater than in the technical high schools.
— from Wage Earning and Education by R. R. (Rufus Rolla) Lutz

rts of London; indeed the alterations which have taken place, inconsequence of the removal of the natural soil, and the addition of “made ground,” make it difficult to tell what is the natural elevation of any particular spot in the parish.
— from Paddington: Past and Present by William Robins

"When I am indulging in my views of American prospects and American liberty, it is mortifying to be told that in that very country a large portion of the people are slaves!
— from The Conflict with Slavery Part 1 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII by John Greenleaf Whittier

She was penniless in the world, all the things that should have been hers having been swept away by the malicious stroke of a pen.
— from The Wall Between by Sara Ware Bassett