There are offices about the Inns of Court in which a man might be cool, if any coolness were worth purchasing at such a price in dullness; but the little thoroughfares immediately outside those retirements seem to blaze.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

There are great groups,—now with common history, now with common interests, now with common ancestry; more and more common experience and present interest drive back the common blood and the world today consists, not of races, but of the imperial commercial group of master capitalists, international and predominantly white; the national middle classes of the several nations, white, yellow, and brown, with strong blood bonds, common languages, and common history; the international laboring class of all colors; the backward, oppressed groups of nature-folk, predominantly yellow, brown, and black.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

His great bargaine of Hempe with us by his unknown proposition is disliked by the King, and so is quite off; of which he is glad, by this means being rid of his obligation to my Lord Bruncker, which he was tired with, and especially his mistresse, Mrs. Williams, and so will fall into another way about it, wherein he will advise only with myself, which do not displease me, and will be better for him and the King too.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In limited monarchies the power is divided between the King and the people, both of whom are interested in the stability of the magistrate.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The attainment of that design is bound up with the feeling of pleasure, and since the condition of this attainment is a representation a priori ,—as here a principle for the reflective Judgement in general,—therefore the feeling of pleasure is determined by a ground a priori and valid for every man, and that merely by the reference of the Object to the cognitive faculty, the concept of purposiveness here not having the least reference to the faculty of desire.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

I hated him, partly, I do believe, from a comparison of my own homely garb with his well-ordered foppishness.
— from The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is a remarkable prophecy in Daniel believed to refer to this same Ottoman power, and from it some of the best students of prophecy in the course of the last century named that year as the probable commencement of the decline of Turkey.
— from Rome, Turkey, and Jerusalem by Edward Hoare

Sometimes the tubes containing the gas were opened in the air for an instant, and the plates put in dry; but no sensible difference in action was perceived, except that it commenced sooner.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

Again, if the pectoral girdle is a modified branchial arch, it must at some period have carried a gill, and in Protopterus it does bear a vestigial gill.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

The ushers, painstakingly adopting various lengths of stride to the requirements of the organ, passed in pairs; then followed an equal number of young women, among whom he instantly recognized the handsome presence of Kate Polder, in drooping blue bonnets, with prodigious panniers of celestial-hued silk, carrying white enamelled shepherd's crooks from which depended loops of artificial buttercups.
— from The Three Black Pennys: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

The text at this point is defective, but one can gather that Ea, who constitutes himself Adapa's protector, warns the latter, as he warned Parnapishtim.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

The little shelf, measuring about 100 to 300 yards, at the head of the fork where the north-eastern and the south-western lava-streams part, is divided by a medial ledge.
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

This is a pretty considerable Place in Dutch Brabant : ’Tis encompass’d all round with 260.png 257 Marshes, and may easily be laid under Water for several Leagues round, which makes it one of the strongest Places in Europe : ’Twas Henry of Brabant that gave it the Name of Bois le Duc , or Bolduc , i. e. the Duke’s Wood , because he directed the Building of it in 1171, in the same Place where he caus’d a Wood to be cut down.
— from The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von