Sharply to define the notion of “proved” would require at least to establish its relation to usage and to say: What we desire leads us to an assumption , what is possible gives us probability , what appears certain, we call proved .
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

A portion of that awkwardness is felt which hangs upon the introduction of songs in our modern comic operas; and to prevent which the judicious Metastasio (as to whose exquisite taste there can be no hesitation, whatever doubts may be entertained as to his poetic genius) uniformly placed the aria at the end of the scene, at the same time that he almost always raises and impassions the style of the recitative immediately preceding.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

They could only account for the conduct he had pursued from our being enchanters, who had bound down both his mind and energies by witchcraft, or that our gods, and the great Spanish woman, whom we termed our protectress, gave us power to accomplish everything we might wish."
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Wise consolidation plans give urgent priority to the restoration of the home-grown informational media and recreational facilities of the occupied territory.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Bisag wà nay ihungit nanginstulmin pa giyud ug pridyidir tungud sa ílang kahaslù, Even though they have nothing to eat, they have to buy a refrigerator on installment, just to show off.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If thou beest Prospero, Give us particulars of thy preservation; How thou hast met us here, whom three hours since Were wreck'd upon this shore; where I have lost-
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Ang birding panaptun giritiktirikan ug putì, The green cloth is dotted with white dots.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Acute streptococcie tonsillitis is a very frequent disease, and the patient generally, under proper treatment, quickly recovers.
— from Disturbances of the Heart Discussion of the Treatment of the Heart in Its Various Disorders, With a Chapter on Blood Pressure by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne

I am your prisoner, gentlemen, upon parole or otherwise.
— from The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

Eleven Volumes Illustrated Price per volume, $1.50 FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS MIDWAY FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS GROWN UP PHRONSIE PEPPER THE STORIES POLLY PEPPER TOLD THE ADVENTURES OF JOEL PEPPER FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS ABROAD FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AT SCHOOL FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND THEIR FRIENDS BEN PEPPER FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS IN THE LITTLE BROWN HOUSE LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON Polly telling her stories.
— from The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House by Margaret Sidney

g primitive gut, u primitive mouth, p peristomal pole-cells, i entoderm, e ectoderm, d dorsal side, v ventral side.)
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Haeckel

Pater. ( giving up paper, and examining Christmas Cards with some vague show of interest ).
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, December 29th 1894 by Various

Kornilov charged that the Provisional Government, under pressure from the Bolsheviki, was playing into the hands of the German General Staff.
— from Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo

Rollo, finding that he had no excuse for sitting there any longer, presently got up, [pg 15] and sauntered along towards the house, saying that he was going to work, picking up chips.
— from Rollo at Work by Jacob Abbott

Five Little Peppers Grown Up Produced by Naomi Parkhurst, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team [Illustration: "WELL, AMY, CHILD, HOW CAN I HELP YOU?"] FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS GROWN UP BY MARGARET SIDNEY CONTENTS CHAPTER I. POLLY GIVES MUSIC LESSONS CHAPTER II.
— from Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney