The record of tactile sensations is frequent in our protocols and requires constant consideration of the sense’s unreliability.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

It is sufficient for the present purpose to observe in general, that power and riches commonly cause respect, poverty and meanness contempt, though particular views and incidents may sometimes raise the passions of envy and of pity.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

His clothes were admirable, and at that moment he pulled a Russian cigarette case out of his pocket.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

There are several Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, a government college, and three other colleges or high schools, besides a medical college.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

For it seems at any rate that he eventually wished to change his teaching on that subject ... and not only is that the case with the Parsifal trumpets on the stage: in the melancholy, cramped, and embarrassed lucubrations of his later years, there are a hundred places in which there are manifestations of a secret wish and will, a despondent, uncertain, unavowed will to preach actual retrogression, conversion, Christianity, mediævalism, and to say to his disciples, "All is vanity!
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Purpose and Result Clauses Compared.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

In some parts of Switzerland, accordingly, where, from the accidental union of a protestant and Roman catholic country, the conversion has not been so complete, both religions are not only tolerated, but established by law.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Each piece is either a simple hollow ring or a pileate and reticulate cap, composed of a ring and several connected bars.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

Her son, whose faith was of so changeable a character that it suited all parties, is the pride and boast of the country; but [486] the object of love appears to be the amiable Princess Catherine, his sister, for whom her mother built, in a secluded spot in the royal park, a residence, called Castel Beziat , the last stones of which have now disappeared, as well as the gardens originally planted by Gaston XI., in 1460, and said, in the time of Henri II.
— from Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

Within and through the liquid of the nucleus there spreads an irregular network of a substance which is (for a purely accidental reason) called chromatin .
— from The Drama of Love and Death: A Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration by Edward Carpenter

Once outside the gates we hired a cab, and drove to an address given us by Mr. S.—that of the sister and the mother of a Russian professor at Robert College, Constantinople.
— from Eastern Nights - and Flights: A Record of Oriental Adventure. by Alan Bott

This gives the pudding a rich, creamy consistency.
— from Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith May Bertels Thomas

Separate instruction in their religious duties for protestant and Roman Catholic children recommended, 111 .
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir

It is therefore better, wherever possible, to provide a reservoir capacity considerably larger than that represented by the run-off from the heaviest storms, so that water may be stored for use as power or domestic supply.
— from The Passaic Flood of 1903 by Marshall Ora Leighton