He was not in the least degree invalided or deprived of nervous energy, but he felt that in the long, strenuous years of service he had earned a holiday, and now he took it.
— from Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse

The areas of red Swedish and Scotch granite have been used to follow out in a broad way the dispersion of drift over northern Europe.
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs

But the connexion between the two is not one of date only, nor even of the spectacular demand it was the end of either to meet.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

Objects insufficiently lighted up make no impression upon the virgin plates; but when a vivid splendor falls upon them, and when they are encircled by disks of light, these once dim objects now engrave themselves upon the glass.
— from The Story of a Child by Pierre Loti

The signs for the interpretation of nature comprehend two divisions; the first regards the eliciting or creating of axioms from experiment, the second the deducing or deriving of new experiments from axioms.
— from Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

Improve every moment you can spare from other duties or needed exercise in studying arithmetic, geometry, algebra and mechanical engineering.
— from How to Become an Engineer by Frank W. Doughty

unofficially—­in earnest private conversations—­by Mr. Downing, that at the sound of this bell, at whatever hour of day or night, every member of the school must leave his house in the quickest possible way, and make for the open.
— from Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Here was the doctrine of state-rights born into full life, with the old doctrine of nullification embodied.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer