With most objects of desire, physical nature restricts our choice to but one of many represented goods, and even so it is here.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

A disposition naturally simple and demanding protection; a long course of poverty and humility, of daily privations, and hard words, of kind offices and no returns, had been her lot ever since womanhood almost, or since her luckless marriage with George Osborne.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

In the day when more of the boys from our streets shall find their way to it and to the New York Trade Schools, of which it is a kind of home annex, we shall be in a fair way of solving in the most natural of all ways the question what to do with this boy, in spite of the ignorant opposition of the men whose tyrannical policy is now to blame for the showing that, out of twenty-three millions of dollars paid annually to mechanics in the building trades in this city, less than six millions go to the workman born in New York, while his boy roams the streets with every chance of growing up a vagabond and next to none of becoming an honest artisan.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Amongst these nations the people will very often display poetic tastes, and sometimes allow their fancy to range beyond and above what surrounds them.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The instant the captive mentioned the name of Don Pedro de Aguilar, Don Fernando looked at his companions and they all three smiled; and when he came to speak of the sonnets one of them said, "Before your worship proceeds any further I entreat you to tell me what became of that Don Pedro de Aguilar you have spoken of."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Therefore, though the beginnings of things which are made or done pertain to Janus, they are nevertheless not prior to the efficient causes which they attribute to Jupiter.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

timeô undique , adv., from all sides cônor, cônârî, cônâtus sum , attempt, try êgredior, êgredî, êgressus sum , move out, disembark ; prôgredior , move forward, advance (egress, progress) moror, morârî, morâtus sum , delay orior, orirî, ortus sum , arise, spring; begin; be born ( from ) (origin) proficîscor, proficîscî, profectus sum , set out revertor, revertî, reversus sum , return (revert).
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

And the fact that his own disciple (Philip) declared him to be the son of Joseph , and that several texts show that it was the current impression, is still further confirmation of the conclusion.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

But the hours of darkness passed in peace; the men who still remained at their duty toiling hard at the pumps, whose clinking and clanking at intervals through the dreary night dismally resounded through the ship.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

[2ddccxxx.xxx]1006 H. F. Cary's Translation of Dante, Paradise
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

During the remainder of the war their only definite plan was for conquering the southern states.
— from The War of Independence by John Fiske

The oldest inhabitant of St. Mary's, who is said to have scored a century, old "Daddy Paddy"—a negro who bears in his face the tattooing of his native Africa—participated in that fight.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, August, 1880 by Various

The National Academy of Design [Pg 273] Morse helped to found in New York in 1826, and of this institution he was first president.
— from The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees by Mary Caroline Crawford

It is of the utmost importance that those engaged in dairy work be familiar with these antagonistic forces since it is constantly necessary to repress or to kill outright the bacteria in milk and other dairy products.
— from Outlines of dairy bacteriology, 10th edition A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by E. G. (Edwin George) Hastings

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There are men of wealth who have lost a dear mother, wife, or daughter, Page 104
— from Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator, with Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage by Catharine Esther Beecher

The heir to the throne of Denmark, Prince Frederick, upon whom, by the courtesy of the American minister, Mr. Swensen, I was able to call on Christmas afternoon, is very democratic in his manner, and very cordial in his friendship for America.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

— "Through me the way is to the city dolent; Through me the way is to eternal dole; Through me the way among the people lost,"— with that of Dr. Parsons,—, "Through me you reach the city of despair; Through me eternal wretchedness ye find; Through me among perdition's race ye fare.
— from The Unseen World, and Other Essays by John Fiske

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— from Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] by Henry Seidel Canby