Tell Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, of your district schools and your model schools, and your training schools, and your whole kettle-of-fish of schools; and Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, tells you plainly, all right, all correct—he hadn’t such advantages—but let us have hard-headed, solid-fisted people—the education that made him won’t do for everybody, he knows well—such and such his education was, however, and you may force him to swallow boiling fat, but you shall never force him to suppress the facts of his life.’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Magic, the technique of animism, clearly and unmistakably shows the tendency of forcing the laws of psychic life upon the reality of things, under conditions where spirits did not yet have to play any rôle, and could still be taken as objects of magic treatment.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

Note: Yet some pagan authors relate and confirm them.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

So much curiosity was excited by the subject, that, about the same time, a man named Holloway gave a course of lectures on animal magnetism in London, at the rate of five guineas for each pupil, and realised a considerable fortune.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

In vacuo, the parts are regular, and can be derived from the (imaginary) root according to the laws of grammar, i.e. of perspective.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

And he accordingly goes on protesting; amid rage and clangor; Legendre crying at last: "Lanjuinais, come down from the Tribune, or I will fling thee down, ou je te jette en bas!"
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Dolly shop , an illegal pawnshop,—where goods, or stolen property, not good enough for the pawnbroker, are received, and charged at so much per day.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Arbeitsvorbereitung planning process Arbeitsvorbereitung preparatory work Arbeitsvorbereitung process layout planning Arbeitsvorbereitung routing Arbeitswechsel change of employment Arbeitszeit hours of work Arbeitszeit working hours Arbeitszeiterfassung timekeeping Arbeitszeiterfassungsbogen time sheet Arbeitszeitkarte daily job time report Arbeitszeitverkürzung reduction of working hours Arbeitszerlegung in einzelne Arbeitsgänge job breakdown Arbeitszettel job card Arbeitszettel job ticket
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they are printed as rare and curious, as ever.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

By Antoninus' soul, I do conjure you, And though not for religion, for his friendship, Without demanding what's the cause that moves me, Receive my signet:—By the power of this, Go to my prisons, and release all Christians, That are in fetters there by my command.
— from The Plays of Philip Massinger, Vol. I by Philip Massinger

{85} CHAPTER VII 'THE GENTLE SHEPHERD'; SCOTTISH IDYLLIC POETRY; RAMSAY'S PASTORALS—1725-30 In the quarto of 1721, not the least remarkable of its contents had been two Pastoral Dialogues, the one between Richy (Sir Richard Steele) and Sandy (Alexander Pope), and based on the death of Addison: the other between Patie and Roger, and concerning itself solely with a representation of rural life.
— from Allan Ramsay by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

One morning, between seven and eight o'clock, the cavalry pickets and reserves about Catlett's Station were startled by artillery firing just below them on the railroad.
— from Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Willard W. Glazier

and, considering what deadness is upon the hearts of many, it were good that some did not pray without God, and preach and praise, and read and confer of God without God!
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford

This preparation consists of gelatine-solution suitably prepared, and represents a colorless, or at the utmost slightly opalescent, product just sufficiently concentrated to remain liquid.
— from Glue, Gelatine, Animal Charcoal, Phosphorous, Cements, Pastes and Mucilages by F. (Ferdinand) Dawidowsky

He lived, for the most part, a retired and contemplative life; yet, he at last fell a sacrifice, as it has been supposed, to envy.
— from The Violin Some Account of That Leading Instrument and Its Most Eminent Professors, from Its Earliest Date to the Present Time; with Hints to Amateurs, Anecdotes, etc. by George Dubourg

He sent off to America a set of the corrected proofs, and received a cablegram, “Proofs received.
— from One Day's Courtship, and The Heralds of Fame by Robert Barr

Mothers were guarded and protected and revered, and children were made welcome, and no such crime as darkens our own social world—the crime of destroying embryo life—was known in your midst.
— from A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

He chose a place at random, and called to the coachman to drive him there.
— from Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann

In 1718, Captain Woodes Rogers leased the islands for twenty-one years, from the proprietors, and received a commission as Governor; he sailed, for Providence, with a naval force and powers to offer an amnesty to all who submitted.
— from The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago by J. (John) Biddulph