Mrs. Weston was afraid of draughts for the young people in that passage; and neither Emma nor the gentlemen could tolerate the prospect of being miserably crowded at supper.
— from Emma by Jane Austen
that the Ricaras had every wish to be friendly with the Mandans &c. that every mandan &c. who chose to visit the ricares should be Safe that he Should Continue with his nation and See that they followed the Council which we had given them &c.—The Sun being very hot the Chyenne Chief envited us to his Lodge which was pitched in the plain at no great distance from the River.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark
A plague take them; why did they not choose rather to die there than to leave their good prince in that pinch and necessity?
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
You know it’s only celebrated people whose names are published in the papers, and now they have gone and published mine!”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
As some artists, like Michael Angelo, have carried the sculptor's spirit into painting, many more, when painting is the prevalent and natural art, have produced carved pictures.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
Such omnivorous readers get no real pleasure in the present, and no adequate instruction for the future.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius
A few times she had seen her at the piano in the parlour, and not infrequently had heard her play.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
(This account is taken from a communique published in the Press, as no official report has been received from the United Provinces Government.) {244} Eight of the prisoners were injured by gunshots mostly in the legs, and nine with batons.
— from Gandhi and Anarchy by Sankaran Nair, C. (Chettur), Sir
—Peas in the pod are not attractive, but very young peas when shelled and put in little {55} bright tin pails are irresistible.
— from One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox
And the reason of this effect of clearness appearing preternatural is, that people are not in the habit of looking at water with the distant focus adapted to the reflections, unless by particular effort.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin
Plants in the porch and near the draped folding doors.
— from Exiles: A Play in Three Acts by James Joyce
"We landed at the quay in St. Petersburg about eleven o'clock, and I reached my lodgings in the Hotel de Russie about twelve, thus ending a day of incidents which I shall long remember with great gratification, having only one unpleasant reflection connected with it, to wit that my dear wife, my niece and our friend Miss L. were not with me to participate in the pleasure and novelty of the scenes."
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse
The last-mentioned principle plainly indicates the propriety and necessity of lessening the quantity of food as the warm season approaches.
— from A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
Before I left, however, I put into the post a note dated Paris, and addressed to Julie, which she would receive on waking.
— from Raphael; Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty by Alphonse de Lamartine
Periostitis involving the Pedal and Navicular Bones.
— from Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) Reeks
The dilemma which confronted the Philosophy of history must be repeated in this case also:—either it has to continue the work of the physical and natural sciences, and in this case there will be progress in the physical and natural sciences and not in the Philosophy of nature; or it has to construct the Philosophy of nature (the physical and natural sciences); and this cannot be done, save by an a priori deduction of the empirical and thus falling into the error of panlogism or philosophism.
— from Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept by Benedetto Croce
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