Natural selection has fitted the Eskimo and the Sudanese for their respective abodes, but it has been by the process of regressive evolution; progressive evolution in man has confined itself to less extreme climatic areas.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Naturally every detail interested him; every line; every touch of the artist; every change of light and shade; every point of relation; every possible doubt of St. Gaudens's correctness of taste or feeling; so that, as the spring approached, he was apt to stop there often to see what the figure had to tell him that was new; but, in all that it had to say, he never once thought of questioning what it meant.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

paradox, oxymoron; riddle, enigma, puzzle &c. (secret) 533; diagnus vindice nodus[Lat]; sealed book; steganography[obs3], freemasonry.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

In all dealings, where it is possible, the principles of radical economy prescribe three things: first, undertaking by the great; secondly, engaging with persons of skill in the subject-matter; thirdly, engaging with those who shall have an immediate and direct interest in the proper execution of the business.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

It should show in a very concrete way one of the most fertile sources of those unfair international judgments which led the French Academician Joüy to the statement: "Plus on réfléchit et plus on observe, plus on se convainct de la fausseté de la plupart de ces jugements portés sur un nation entière par quelques ecrivains et adoptés sans examen par les autres."
— from The Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American Kin by James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead

Finally, the arrangement was inverted in the air for the purpose of removing every possible objection to the conclusions, but they came out exactly the same.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

EDMUND BURKE (SKETCH FROM LIFE) THEOBALD WOLFE TONE (PORTRAIT OF) LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD (PORTRAIT OF) THE FOUR COURTS, DUBLIN MARQUIS CORNWALLIS (PORTRAIT OF) ROBERT EMMETT (PORTRAIT OF) DANIEL O'CONNELL, M.P. (SKETCH OF)
— from The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless

The apathy of those who were responsible for the policing of rural England produced its natural result; and, in the absence of adequate Government protection, people who were not content to submit quietly to be robbed by any scoundrel who preferred plunder to labour, made their own arrangements for self-protection.
— from A History of Police in England by W. L. Melville (William Lauriston Melville) Lee

In the Pueblo scheme of worship, there is not, and seemingly never was, any elite group of “medicine men” or chief practitioners of religion; each person has a part in religious observances, his respective role growing more important as he advances in seniority within a ceremonial organization.
— from Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico by Kittridge A. Wing

Campfires 97 were to be built for the purpose of roasting eggs, potatoes and chestnuts.
— from Marjorie Dean, Marvelous Manager by Josephine Chase