BY WINDOW BC; POSITION OF EYE D. ILLUSTRATING PRINCIPLES OF LIGHT AND SHADE Lines B4, C3 represent the extreme limits of light that can be received by the cone, and therefore at points 3 and 4 the shadow will commence.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

“All the same he’s a good man; truthful, good-hearted, and remarkable in his own line,” Anna said to herself going back to her room, as though she were defending him to someone who had attacked him and said that one could not love him.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

War—the former being for some time on Lord Anglesey’s staff, and the latter in the 1st Foot Guards.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

It suffices to say that in general the school has been the institution which exhibited with greatest clearness the assumed antithesis between purely individualistic methods of learning and social action, and between freedom and social control.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Yo os lo apuesto si queréis.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

“That I can well believe,” said the curate, “for I know already by experience that the woods breed men of learning, and shepherds’ huts harbour philosophers.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But the Scotchman had none of the stomachic phlegm and never-perturb'd placidity of the Konigsberg sage, and did not, like the latter, understand his own limits, and stop when he got to the end of them.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

When she reached Golden Square she found the house in a blaze of light, and smiled.
— from The Halo by Bettina Von Hutten

But these men are few, and as a general rule the very best pieces of land are set apart for the cultivation of opium.
— from James Gilmour of Mongolia: His diaries, letters, and reports by James Gilmour

We gained the hill about one o'clock, P. M.; [135] and during the evening a brisk cannonading was kept up along our lines against some of the enemy, who could be seen across the valley at the base of Rocky Face Mountain, and in the road leading to Buzzard Roost.
— from Four Months in Libby and the Campaign Against Atlanta by I. N. (Isaac N.) Johnston

From noon of the 15th the country gradually opened out to a thinly-grassed plain of light alluvial soil, atriplex bushes and acacia widely scattered forming almost the entire vegetation; the ground, with the exception of the bed of the river, being parched and dry, no rain having fallen during the summer to the west of the Lyons River, in longitude 115 degrees 30 minutes east. 16th May.
— from Journals of Australian Explorations by Francis Thomas Gregory

None but one who knew every point of a horse, none but one of the Centaur breed, could have drawn Don Fulano,—just as none but a born skater could have written those inimitable skating-scenes in his story of "Love and Skates."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Nor dare to blame God’s gifts for incompleteness; In that want their beauty lies: they roll Towards some infinite depth of love and sweetness, Bearing onward man’s reluctant soul.
— from Legends and Lyrics. Part 1 by Adelaide Anne Procter

As to the exclusively classic education in my young days, to the resolute neglect of all other languages and sciences, I for myself have from youth upwards always protested against it as mainly waste of time and of very little service in the battle of life.
— from My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper

once ludicrous and sad,—than that heavens and earth of Cosmas Indicopleustes , the monk, which I illustrated by diagrams in my last lecture ( Figs. 114 , 115 ).
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

There cannot be the smallest doubt that the follicular epithelium is derived from the general cells of the germinal epithelium—a point on which my results fully bear out the conclusions of Ludwig and Semper.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

an hundred and six sailes verie well furnished and manned, and so from thence taking their course towards Marseilles, finallie they arriued there in the octaues of the assumption of our ladie; and staieng there an eight daies (till they had repaired such things about their ships as were néedfull) they set forward againe, and came to Messina in Sicile in the feast of the exaltation of the crosse.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (06 of 12) Richard the First by Raphael Holinshed