Welcomed with vivats, with presents, and a pledge of patriot liquor; embracing and embraced; declaring in words that the cause of France is their cause!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

If a psychic organization, such as this illness, has persisted for a long time, it finally behaves as an independent unit, it expresses something like self-preservation, attains a kind of modus vivendi between itself and other parts of psychic life, even those that are fundamentally hostile to it.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

hamm I. m. piece of pasture land, enclosure, dwelling , Ct ; ÆL; Mdf.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

I only wish to point out that you (or perhaps not you, as you enter on a good footing, but certainly your companions) are self-deceivers, and are preparing without knowing it the shipwreck of your lives, precisely like those other youths who, poorer, or perhaps less energetic, crowd to enter the Church.
— from The Shadow of the Cathedral by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

How are the Cretaceous Ichthyosauria, Plesiosauria, or Pterosauria less embryonic, or more differentiated, species than those of the Lias?
— from Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life by Thomas Henry Huxley

The protection of life and property, the habeas corpus , trial by jury, the right of open trial, these are principles of public liberty existing in their best form in the republican institutions of this country, but, to the extent mentioned, existing also in the constitution of England.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

It will be worth while for the patrons of public libraries, even in appointments to small offices, to have an eye on bookish men for filling them.
— from The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

First, two or more pieces of plutonium large enough to form a critical mass.
— from Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

Mother Nature has a remarkable power of producing life everywhere—even this ice is a fruitful soil for her.
— from Farthest North, Vol. I Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

the Tribune Ciccronachio fed the flame with fagots; Adam Mickiewicz, the great poet of Poland, long exiled from his country, looked on; while Polish women brought little pieces that had been scattered in the street, and threw into the flames.
— from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller

the modern Tribune Ciceronacchio fed the flame with faggots; Adam Mickiewicz, the great poet of Poland, long exiled from his country or the hopes of a country, looked on, while Polish women, exiled too, or who perhaps, like one nun who is here, had been daily scourged by the orders of a tyrant, brought little pieces that had been scattered in the street and threw them into the flames,—an offering received by the Italians with loud plaudits.
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller