Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Moreover, at whatever period of life either disuse or selection reduces an organ, and this will generally be when the being has come to maturity and to exert its full powers of action, the principle of inheritance at corresponding ages will tend to reproduce the organ in its reduced state at the same mature age, but will seldom affect it in the embryo.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Priapus was Zeus; also Pan, and Orus: among the people of Lampsacus esteemed Dionusus.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Par ailleurs, ces dispositifs existent, permettant donc théoriquement un contrôle, alors que ça n'est pas le cas sur les photocopieurs ou les enregistreurs de cassettes.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The N.W. section of the border includes many "pockets," or long elliptical depressions, which at an early stage of sunrise give a scalloped appearance to the crest.
— from The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

she exclaimed mildly; “I’ll chance that dog gets a piece of liver every day.”
— from Mountain Blood: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

She had developed her conscience there, and no doubt, if one knew it well, it would show peculiarities of local expansion directly connected with hot corn-bread for breakfast, as opposed to the accredited diet of legumes upon which consciences arrive at such successful maturity in the East.
— from A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan

CHANGES IN THE LINE OF HEAD Another extremely interesting point in studying the Line of Head is to take notice of certain changes in its position, or lines either dropping or rising from it, which will also be found to give very remarkable information.
— from Palmistry for All by Cheiro

Many archæologists are of opinion that the worked flints found in the plains of Lower Egypt date from Neolithic times.
— from Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de

Moreover, Sir George Elmwood died of his wounds; poor old Lady Elmwood did not long survive him, and the estate, which had been left to her for her life, was sequestrated by the Parliament, and redeemed by the next heir after Sir George, so that there was an exchange of the Lord of the Manor.
— from Under the Storm by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

[At last the women are pushed out, leaving Elder Daniels, the Sheriff's brother Strapper Kemp, and a few others with Blanco.
— from The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw