The chemist, the physician, etc., studies his subject because he wants to become a chemist, physician, etc., but the lawyer studies law not because he wants to become a lawyer, but because he wants to become an official, and as he has no especial interest he chooses his state position in that branch in which he thinks he has the best prospects.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The friars, flattered by the comparison and seeing their prestige enhanced, sent him sacks of chocolate, presents which the incorruptible Don Custodio returned, so that Ben-Zayb immediately compared him to Epaminondas.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Here we touch the solid rock upon which all the cults are built and which has caused their persistence ever since human societies have existed.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

As through an arch the violent roaring tide Outruns the eye that doth behold his haste; Yet in the eddy boundeth in his pride Back to the strait that forc'd him on so fast; In rage sent out, recall'd in rage, being past: Even so his sighs, his sorrows make a saw.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"Provisions, effendi?" says he, salaaming.
— from Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen

Its pitiful emptiness smote him sore.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

He then goes on to say that he has kicked up "an awful shindy with the Athenaeum Club," about something, just as if he had not been kicking up awful shindies with all sorts of people ever since his schoolboy days at Tours.
— from The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright

"'A penny saved is a penny earned,'" she had said gayly, when she made the offer of her services; "and if you will hear me conduct one class, and then take a good, long look at my certificate, you will decide, I am sure,—or
— from Brenda's Bargain: A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed

"Play El Son," he said, peremptorily.
— from The Doomswoman: An Historical Romance of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

The principles and performances of that work he had long looked upon as insufficient: in particular, ever since his settlement at Jena, it had been among his favourite projects to exchange it for some other, conducted on a more liberal scheme, uniting more ability in its [144] support, and embracing a much wider compass of literary interests.
— from The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle

Unfortunately, such remedies as these had failed of their purpose ever since his sickness became vital.
— from Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

It is certainly a very charming work in every way: it is a square in plan, each side having six traceried windows towards the centre court, and a small chapel breaks out into this at the south-west angle.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street