In any case, it may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it—or else the poetry is artificial poetry.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Great offence was caused by this exclusive privilege, and Rickerby in the "Japan Times" poured out his wrath upon the head of our friend the artist.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

It is true that memory sometimes, as in a vision, seems to raise the curtain upon the past and restore it to us in its pristine reality.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The Polish Commonwealth was formed by the union of two separate states, Poland proper on the west, with a population predominantly Polish, and Lithuania on the east, with a population Lithuanian in the north (Lithuania proper) and Russian in the rest of its territory.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Or you make a model of the Hampton Court maze, and put a rat in the middle, assaulted by the smell of food on the outside.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The lofty titles of the morning star, and the death of the Saracens, 111 were applied in the public acclamations to Nicephorus Phocas, a prince as renowned in the camp, as he was unpopular in the city.
— 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

Everything looked favorable to the defeat of the enemy and the capture of Petersburg and Richmond, if the proper effort was made.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

For both of them he professes a respect in the open court, which contrasts with his manner of speaking about them in other places.
— from Apology by Plato

"And, such, indeed, is the nature of the whole earth, and the parts about the earth; but there are many places all round it throughout its cavities, some deeper and more open than that in which we dwell; but others that are deeper have a less chasm than our region, and others are shallower in depth than it is here, and broader.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

There was something so reassuringly prosperous and respectable in their bearing that after a moment's hesitation Nunez stood forward as conspicuously as possible upon his rock, and gave vent to a mighty shout that echoed round the valley.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The German was plucky, and ripped into Thaw for all he was worth.
— from Famous Flyers and Their Famous Flights by Jack Wright

And after I had explained to everybody how good it was, Stalk went to the patent ammonia refrigerator in the bathroom, to find that the temperature there had suddenly dropped about 100 below zero, and
— from Mrs. Radigan: Her Biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal, and the Memoirs of J. Madison Mudison by Nelson Lloyd

Also Chapter Fourteen, which deals with war and peace as reflected in the writings of ancient and modern poets and philosophers.
— from The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

In his Discourse to prove a North-West Passage to Cathay , Gilbert argues that all writers from Plato down have spoken of a great island out in the Atlantic; that this island is America which must thus have a water passage all round it; that the ocean currents moving to the west across the Atlantic and driven along its coast, as Cartier saw, past Newfoundland, evidently show that the water runs on round the top of America.
— from Adventurers of the Far North: A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas by Stephen Leacock

It is the affectionate counsel of an aged apostle to two young preachers and rulers in the church respecting the duties of their office.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

Even the lean Western men and hungry Yankees become plump and rosy in this temple of the winds.
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir

That this 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana' be under the sole power and custody of the master of the college for the time being, who shall neither himself convey, nor suffer to be conveyed by others, any of the said books from thence to any other place, except to his own lodge in the said college, nor there have more than ten of them at a time; and that of those also a strict entry be made and account kept, at the time of their having been taken out and returned, in a book to be provided, and remain in the said library for that purpose only.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

The attempt has been made to tell the stories in prose, preserving so much of the poetry as resides in the thoughts and is separable from the language itself, and omitting those amplifications which are not suited to the altered form.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Five thousand pounds would purchase another residence in the country.
— from Sally Bishop: A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

A large population are resident in the towns and cities and countryside, easily accessible through these lines of transportation.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 02, April, 1900 by Various