What practical difference can it make NOW that the world should be run by matter or by spirit?
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

[9] See Durkheim and Mauss, De quelques formes primitives de classification , in Année Sociologique , VI, pp.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

But after it was over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed Bolkónski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

1637—Adam Olearius, German traveler and Persian scholar, visits Persia (1633–39); and on his return tells how in this year he observed that the Persians drink chawa in their coffee houses.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Philippe de Commines, in his "Mémoires," declares that he himself had a taste of it for eight months.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Proud daring Calymath, instead of gold, We'll send thee bullets wrapt in smoke and fire: Claim tribute where thou wilt, we are resolv'd,— Honour is bought with blood, and not with gold.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

The Real Peruvian Doughnuts CHAPTER IV.
— from Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

Being a cop means you matter against all the delinks and crooks an' fools and murderers who'd pull down civilization in a minute if they could, just so they could be important because they did it.
— from A Matter of Importance by Murray Leinster

On the 4th the Prince de Conde insisted in Parliament on a formal decree for declaring his innocence, which was granted, but deferred to be published till the 7th of September (the day that the King came of age), on pretence of rendering it more authentic and solemn by the King's presence, but really to gain time, and see what influence the splendour of royalty, which was to be clothed that day with all the advantages of pomp, would have upon the minds of the people.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Pipe down clothes, if dry; sweepers.
— from With the Battle Fleet Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908 by Franklin Matthews

He pointed out to her tombs of great men about whom she had read long ago in her school days at the Convent of San Paolo della Croce, in Florence, and in them she was much interested.
— from The Day of Temptation by William Le Queux

Each child should have a foot-rule and measure its book, pencil, desk, &c.; it should also be taught to draw lines of different lengths with the rule on its slate; thus, teacher might say, 'Draw a standing-up (vertical) line six inches long,' or, 'Draw a lying-down (horizontal) line four inches long,' and so on.
— from Games Without Music for Children by Loïs Bates

Maria Bellows, in other respects a stout, hearty, country lass, had been one of these sufferers, and the provincial doctors called in to Hightoft by Aunt Anne to see the upper housemaid, had shaken their heads and said there was only one thing that would save her, and that was to go up to the great East Central Hospital and place herself in the hands of Sir Denton Hayle.
— from Nurse Elisia by George Manville Fenn

Yet with no scorn of any passed days Come I,—who even in April caught great pleasure,— Making of ancient woes the stronger praise; Nor build I this new crown For my new love's fair head Of flowers plucked in once oft-travelled ways, And then forgot and utterly cast down; But from the measure Of a strange, undreamt-of, undivided treasure I glean, and thus my love is garlanded.
— from Matins by Francis Sherman