A professedly cultural education is peculiarly exposed to this danger.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

[3] Pique cannot exist in passion-love; it is feminine pride.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Having first pronounced certain ejaculations in praise and commendation of the Angel Gabriel and of his relic, he opened the casket and seeing it full of coals, suspected not Guccio Balena of having played him this trick, for that he knew him not to be man enough; nor did he curse him for having kept ill watch lest others should do it, but silently cursed himself for having committed to him the care of his gear, knowing him, as he did, to be negligent, disobedient, careless and forgetful.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

[25] Also Peristeroma (Cyprus), Enlart, I, p. 210 and p. 286, note 3; Hieroskypos (Cyprus), Enlart, I, p. 210 and p. 286.
— from Mediaeval Church Vaulting by Clarence Ward

The foe is lost to sight, the fear conquered conclusively by faith; the psalm which begins with a plaintive cry, ends in praise for deliverance, as if it had been already achieved— "Thou hast delivered my life from death, (Hast Thou) not (delivered) my feet from falling, That I may walk before God in the light of the living?"
— from The Life of David: As Reflected in His Psalms by Alexander Maclaren

When the First Great Cause projected all these whirling fire-mists into illimitable space with all the laws of physics, chemistry, evolution in perfect working order, did he choose this earth as humanity's only home?
— from Some Winter Days in Iowa by Frederick John Lazell

From these facts, and considering the manner in which the beds of clean coral off Mauritius, Keeling Island, the Maldiva and Chagos atolls, graduated into a sandy slope, it appears very probable that the depth, at which reef-building polypifers can exist, is partly determined by the extent of inclined surface, which the currents of the sea and the recoiling waves have the power to keep free from sediment.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

A slight space is left between the top of the valve-stem and the portion of the operating member that bears against them when the regular profile cam exerts its pressure on the bottom of the valve-operating mechanism.
— from Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pagé

In a primitive civilization engaged in pastoral pursuits where the herd is the important source of food supply the ceremony centers about the dairy and the herd.
— from The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races: An Interpretation by Sanger Brown

If only those undesirables who become a public charge, either in prisons or in asylums—and sooner or later they all land there—are one way or another prevented from the propagation of their kind, the anti-selection, now at work, would cease.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey