The visitor watched her fingers for a few moments, and took the opportunity of observing the place in general.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

[1] The texts fail to state that the whites, yolks, onions, vinegar and oil must eventually be combined into a dressing very similar to our own modern vinaigrette ; for decorative and other gastronomic reasons the separate treatment of the whites and the yolks is both ingenious and excellent, and is very often practised in good kitchens today.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The possessives agree with the name of the thing possessed in gender, number, and case.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

(I've worked with two producers in Germany.)
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

People in general either read poetry without any passion at all, or else overstep the modesty of nature, and read not like scholars.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

P. Is God, then, material? V. No.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

— Have you sometimes, upon this very bench, Seen, at mid-day, Vincent de Paul instilling Grace into Gondi?—Have you ever thrown That searching glance on Louis with Fontange, On Anne with Buckingham; and did they not Start, with flushed cheeks, to hear your laugh ring forth From corner of the wood?—Was your advice As to the thyrsis or the ivy asked, When, in grand ballet of fantastic form, God Phoebus, or God Pan, and all his court, Turned the fair head of the proud Montespan, Calling her Amaryllis?—La Fontaine, Flying the courtiers' ears of stone, came he, Tears on his eyelids, to reveal to you
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

It produces an alteration in the distribution of population throughout the state; and at its originating and objective points it gives rise to difficulties which legislative and executive authority has hitherto labored, usually with but very moderate success, to overcome.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

But (by the definition of pain), in proportion as the pain is greater, so also is it necessarily opposed to a greater part of man's power of activity; therefore the greater the pain, the greater the power of activity employed to remove it; that is, the greater will be the desire or appetite in endeavouring to remove it.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

but I rather suspect that people in general are not convinced by you when you speak thus; they think that old age sits lightly upon you, not because of your happy disposition, but because you are rich, and wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
— from The Republic by Plato

The nearest mountain to Padron is green to its summit even in winter; while I was there some ladies climbed to the top in a little less than three hours.
— from Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain by Annette M. B. Meakin

Pending the decision as to the competent military authority in whose custody this should be placed, I gave orders for it to be transferred to my quarters.
— from With the British Army in The Holy Land by H. O. (Henry Osmond) Lock

The office of the high priest in general was twofold.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

In the hymns of the Rigveda a god Vishnu is invoked, though but little prominence is given to him.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Max Duncker

The law is a transcript of the mind of God, it is holy, just, and good—so that he that offendeth in one point is guilty of all.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

Should the Senate, then, adopt the resolution, the Supreme Court would have no power to act under it, unless that power is given by the constitution.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

It was felt that the pope's legate was forming a Romish party in Germany against the nation itself.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

This chaos is conceived either as a terrifying abyss, as in Germanic and particularly in Greek mythology, or as a world-sea encompassing the earth, as in the Babylonian history of creation.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

"Come home!—home!" said Marmaduke, approaching the philosopher, in great alarm lest he should once more jeopardize his life.
— from The Last of the Barons — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

“Bring two cloaks,” said the Prince, “I go abroad with the scribe, Ana. Let a guard of four Nubians, no more, follow us, but at a distance and disguised.
— from Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard