Many of these men, who rush so boldly onwards in pursuit of wealth, were already in the enjoyment of a competency in their own part of the country.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Where is now the order I perceived?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The wound in my uncle Toby's groin, which he received at the siege of Namur, rendering him unfit for the service, it was thought expedient he should return to England, in order, if possible, to be set to rights.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

In psychoanalysis we work with the transference itself, we do away with the forces opposing it, prepare the instrument with which we are to work.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

As I do not remember to have seen either the poems or their author mentioned in any English work, or to have found them in any of the common collections of Italian poetry; and as the little work is of rare occurrence; I will transcribe a few specimens.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Furious card-playing, gourmandising, drinking, endless conversations about the same things, futile activities and conversations taking up the best part of the day and all the best of a man's forces, leaving only a stunted, wingless life, just rubbish; and to go away and escape was impossible—one might as well be in a lunatic asylum or in prison with hard labour.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This church, or some other in place thereof, was of old time, long before the Conquest, a house of sisters, founded by a maiden named Mary; unto the which house and sisters she left (as was left to her by her parents) the oversight and profits of a cross ferry, or traverse ferry over the Thames, there kept before that any bridge was built.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Thus although individual dreams are distinguished from real life by the fact that they do not fit into that continuity which runs through the whole of experience, and the act of awaking brings this into consciousness, yet that very continuity of experience belongs to real life as its form, and the dream on its part can point to a similar continuity in itself.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

A second glance showed him it was only a Nationalist paper, called The Guillotine, which every week showed one of its political opponents with rolling eyes and writhing features just after execution; for Valentin was an anti-clerical of some note.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta is perhaps the most potent document for democracy since the Communist Manifesto!
— from Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Walter Prichard Eaton

To obtain it pure, it must be formed artificially by oxygenating sugar, which seems to be the true oxalic radical.
— from Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

They looked and saw two velvet Marquees, one striped in broad bands of apple-green and mazarine blue, the other in pale rose and cream, which a party of attendants had just finished putting up.
— from In Brief Authority by F. Anstey

But the stream is constant in its quantity and quality, and is under the same influence of gravitation in all stages of its progress.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

Touching picture of ideal patient in Æsthetic Idiot Asylum.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 by Various

[225] Many of the cultivated Gloxinias also show [Pg 223] erect, regular, five stamened flowers, but these are probably cases of irregular peloria.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters

[Pg 150] a matter of emotions only, but of intellectual perception and moral outlook as well.
— from The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell

The transfer began at 8 o'clock in the morning, Gen. Shafter coming out in person in his steam launch to see that his order was executed.
— from History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition by John H. (John Henry) Parker

[Pg 104] Master Appointed by Warrant from the Navy Board, and is to obey his Commander's Orders for the dispatching the Ship in fitting her out; to inspect the Provisions and Stores sent on board; to take Care of the Ballast that the Hold be carefully stowed, the Rigging and Stores duely preserved, and to navigate the Ship, &c. Master at Arms Appointed by Warrant from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and are to be Men well skilled in Martial Discipline, who are daily to exercise at Small Arms the Petty Officers and Ship's Company; to place and relieve Centinels; to mount the Guard; to see the Firelocks and other Arms be clean; observing the Orders of the Lieutenant at Arms; to see that the Fire and Candles be put out in proper Season; to visit all Vessels and Boats for preventing the Seamen going from the Ship; to acquaint the Officer of the Watch with all Misdemeanors: And the Corporals are to act and perform the same Duty under him.
— from A Naval Expositor Shewing and Explaining the Words and Terms of Art Belonging to the Parts, Qualities and Proportions of Building, Rigging, Furnishing, & Fitting a Ship for Sea by Thomas Riley Blanckley

Would it be too bold to suppose that some ancient Linaria, or allied form, and some ancient Viola, had all petals spur-shaped, and that all cases of "irregular peloria" in these genera are reversions to such imaginary ancient form?
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin