The wrath of science against miracles, of certain philosophers against the doctrine of free-will, has precisely the same root,—dislike to admit any ultimate factor in things which may rout our prevision or upset the stability of our outlook.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

[64-4] a los polacos, o un terror supersticioso a Polonia, [64-5] pues no hacía 10 más que preguntarnos a Juan y a mi «si tendríamos que pasar por aquella tierra para ir a Rusia,» estremeciéndose a la idea de que tal
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The merit of military service against the Saracens of Africa and Spain had been allowed by the predecessors of Urban the Second.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The good woman was so much alarmed by the sudden apparition of this unknown piece of ugliness, that she hastily caught the baby from its cradle and retreated into the furthest corner of the room; while little Jacob, sitting upon his stool with his hands on his knees, looked full at him in a species of fascination, roaring lustily all the time.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The man’s face peeled off under the sponge like the bark from a tree.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Not one of their abettors has ever undertaken to assign the principle of unfitness, the species or degree of delinquency, on which the House of Commons will expel, nor the mode of proceeding upon it, nor the evidence upon which it is established.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

" To hide her embarrassment during the unwonted process of untying the string about his neck, she said:— "I have never seen that you spoke of.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

But reproduction will not be perfectly organised until the second condition is fulfilled as well, and here nature has as yet been more remiss.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Troops of schools were on their march to church, the shiny pavement and outsides of coaches in the suburbs were thronged with people out upon their Sunday pleasure; but the Colonel was much too busy to take any heed of these phenomena, and, arriving at Knightsbridge, speedily made his way up to the room of his old friend and comrade Captain Macmurdo, who Crawley found, to his satisfaction, was in barracks.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

"Callate you know best," said Mr. Dodd, and passed on up the street.
— from Coniston — Volume 04 by Winston Churchill

According to Valerius Maximus and Aulus Gellius, orators were in the practice of using this stimulus before their disputations.
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

What should they do in the loneliness and wildness of the broad and open country—our women, who only breathe at their ease in the obscurity of their palco or under the shelter of a domino?
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

This second laddering process opens up the soil and allows the moisture and heat to enter.
— from The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth by Thomas Woodhouse

His kindly brown eyes rested on her with pleasure; he tried in his shy but friendly way to get at her, and there was in both of them a touch of homeliness, a sheer power of unworldliness that should have drawn them together.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Sometimes this same community makes the tragedy of animal life even more hard to understand, as when a man is followed by a lamb or kid up to the butcher, and stands and sees the thing which followed him so happily have its throat cut before his face, sees its eyes glaze, and its hot blood pour out upon the sand, pockets his half-dollar, and walks serenely home, after a pious exclamation about “One God”; as if God, either in one or three, could possibly be pleased to see one of his own created creatures so betray another only because it walked upon four legs.
— from Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

If the individual to be instructed were one who had heretofore lived apart from law and government, yet capable (if such a thing were possible) of understanding the subject, it is here we ought to commence.
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 4, December, 1834 by Various

It is limpid, of an aromatic odor—very sweet, and of an agreeable taste; it may be employed pure, or used to sweeten appropriate drinks.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York