The mistakes of the secretaries may in any event be reduced to a minimum if all protocols are read immediately, and not by the secretary but by the examining judge himself.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

This crystal possesses a remarkably intricate and noteworthy centre.
— from Water Wonders Every Child Should Know Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice, and Rain by Jean M. (Jean May) Thompson

She read it closely, turning over the pages at regular intervals, and never smiled once.
— from The Hall and the Grange: A Novel by Archibald Marshall

Pennsylvania had nearly seven times as many people as Rhode Island, and nearly forty times as much territory.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

I rode along on the cars through those level black fields at corn-planting time, and every once in a while I'd come to a place with a piece of ragged old stove-pipe stickin' up out of the ground, and blazing away like forty, and a fellow ploughing all round it and not minding it any more than if it was spring violets.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

It has been in existence since the late 1980s, and has played a role in a number of important computational linguistics research projects.
— from Multilingualism on the Web by Marie Lebert

Justice is fair, but she is proud, austere, rigid, inexorable, and no respecter of persons: she wishes to be sought and beloved, but she loves not one friend more than another; and like love, she travels a little in the rear.
— from The Visions of Quevedo by Francisco de Quevedo

In the deserted park at Richmond I awaited no murderous signal, I would not even have wished the slightest harm to any who might have betrayed me.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Two things are necessary—first, that there should be a spirit in a place, and next that the place should be seen by one whose spirit is capable of giving house-room to its spirit.—By the way, does the ghost-lady feel the place all right?" "I am not sure that I know what you mean; but I felt the grass with her feet as I read, and the wind lifting my hair.
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

Knights Templars, institution of the order of, i. 40; their large possessions and rapacity, ib. and note s ; question of their guilt or innocence, 138, 139; Count Purgstall's charges against them, 139-142; Raynouard's attempted refutation, 142; their estates and remarkable influence in Spain, ii. 8.
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam