One of our social desiderata, it seems to me, is the protection of the great springs of human action from destructive exploitation for selfish, commercial, or other trivial ends.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

system of opinions, school, doctrine, articles, canons; article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith; tenets, credenda[obs3], creed; thirty-nine articles &c. (orthodoxy) 983a; catechism; assent &c. 488; propaganda &c. (teaching) 537.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Each race writes its line upon the book, as it passes; it erases the ancient Romanesque hieroglyphs on the frontispieces of cathedrals, and at the most one only sees dogma cropping out here and there, beneath the new symbol which it has deposited.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

“Oh, oh!” said d’Artagnan, comprehending the slight frown of the Musketeer.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

All this time neither she nor they had removed their veils or spoken a word, only on sitting down on the chair the woman gave a deep sigh and let her arms fall like one that was ill and weak.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

All that can be said on this point is that it is advantageous to enlarge as much as possible the field of operations of such detachments, and to give them as much power of mobility as possible, in order to enable them by opportune movements to strike important blows.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

After the slam of the door Blake’s strained voice became faint, as the voice of one scolding desperately in a wilderness. .
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

On one such day he appeared with an untidy sprouting of beard, accompanied by the talkative daughter.
— from Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson

To be sure, there can be here and there small points of friction between the legislative and executive, and the President can, during his four years of office, slowly drift away from the party which elected him, and thus bring about some estrangement; but even this would only be an estrangement from the professional politicians of his party.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

"The first is of rare nobility, whom I fain would honor in bestowing upon him the hand of one so dear—because he hath spent himself for me, and hath held his life little when it might serve me."
— from The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

I have myself passed afternoons in the exciting but innocuous pursuit of winged animals with a revolver; and it was fortunate there were better shots of the party, and fortunate the king could lend us a more suitable weapon, in the form of an excellent fowling-piece, or our spare diet had been sparer still.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson

There are within our own soul distinctive movements tending in directions different from those of nature.
— from Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Eucken

Schleicher doubts the possibility of learning another language to perfection; he would admit this only in the case of a man who exchanged his mother-tongue for another in his earliest youth; “but then he becomes by that very fact a different being from what he was: brain and organs of speech develop in another direction.”
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

Do not insist that the long wars of fierce Numantia, or the formidable Annibal, or the Sicilian Sea impurpled with Carthaginian blood, should be adapted to the tender lays of the lyre: nor the cruel Lapithae, nor Hylaeus excessive in wine and the earth born youths, subdued by Herculean force, from whom the splendid habitation of old Saturn dreaded danger.
— from The Works of Horace by Horace

My father was manager of one of Señor Don Juan’s estates, in a small island near the coast of Cuba.
— from Bat Wing by Sax Rohmer