Both belonged to the same mythical region in which the moral values of life were made to figure as metaphysical agents; but when once the metaphysical agency of the highest good was admitted into a poetic cosmogony, it became imperative to admit also the metaphysical agency of sin into it; for otherwise the highest good would be deprived of its ideal and moral character, would cease to be the entelechy of rational life, and be degraded into a flat principle of description or synthesis for experience and nature as they actually are.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Upon neither of these points could I be satisfied; merely ascertaining, in regard to him, that a sudden accident in his family had caused his removal from Dr. Bransby’s academy on the afternoon of the day in which I myself had eloped.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Maáyu pa ang ariglu nga alang-álang kay sa burúka, A poor compromise is better than a court case.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

‘In the polite circles I believe this sort of thing isn’t usually said to a gentleman in his own apartments, but never mind that.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

I mean its extreme porousness, considered independently by the worm-eaten condition which is a consequence of navigation in these seas, and apart from the rottenness attendant upon age.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Adam longed to say he would go into the garden till Mr. Poyser came in, but he was not quite courageous enough, so he said, “I could be looking at your spinning-wheel, then, and see what wants doing to it.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

How comes it then that New York, the most central, and one of the largest and most prosperous cities in British America, cannot support one coffee house?
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

XLVIII We repair to the coffee-house, where we overhear a curious dispute between Wagtail and Medlar, which is referred to our decision—the Doctor gives an account of his experiment—Medlar is roasted by Banter at the ordinary—the old gentleman's advice to me Being as willing to drop the theme as he was to propose it, I accompanied him thither, where we found Mr. Medlar and Dr. Wagtail disputing upon the word Custard, which the physician affirmed should be spelt with a G, observing that it was derived from the Latin verb gustare, “to taste;” but Medlar pleaded custom in behalf of C, observing, that, by the Doctor's rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety?
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Hence the physician came into being.
— from Invention: The Master-key to Progress by Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) Fiske

Now, this same divination into our pastoral cases is by far and away the most difficult part of a minister’s work.
— from Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte

The black broth of the Lacedæmonians was "pork, cooked in blood and seasoned with salt and vinegar.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

His conductor, catching him by the arm, pushed open the door of a house near Field Lane; and drawing him into the passage, closed it behind them.
— from Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated by Charles Dickens

There are theorists who would, by definition, exclude from the domain of drama any such cinematograph-play, as they would probably call it; but we shall see cause, as we go on, to distrust definitions, especially when they seek to clothe themselves with the authority of laws.
— from Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer

“Oh, my poor coffee is boiling over!”
— from Cuore (Heart): An Italian Schoolboy's Journal by Edmondo De Amicis

The [Pg 317] fact is that in every government, give it what form you please, call it by what name you will, individual men are the chief factors, and if the course of things is such that the legislature does not become divided into parties and is not called on to produce conspicuous leaders, general leadership will fall to the executive head if he is fit to assume it, and legislative leadership to the chairman of the assembly.
— from Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

It was a perpetual carnival, inspired by imagination, animated by genius, and combining everything that could charm the taste, distract the mind, and intoxicate the senses.
— from The Women of the French Salons by Amelia Gere Mason

[49] C. Calpurnis Piso, consul in B.C. 67, then proconsul of Gallia Transalpina (Narbonensis).
— from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Marcus Tullius Cicero