“And now I'll tell you the game,” proposed Pollyanna, blithely confident.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

This action is partially explained by Voit on the grounds that all tasty foods increase gastric secretion, the action being partly psychological; but Cushing observed the same effects upon introducing coffee directly into the stomachs of animals.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Send out your invitations by a servant, or man hired [88] for the purpose; do not trust them to despatch or penny post. Be careful in selecting the guests for a dinner party.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Following the plan proposed by Cyrus Harding, the space was to be divided into five compartments looking out on the sea; to the right, an entry with a door, which would meet the ladder; then a kitchen, thirty feet long; a dining-room, measuring forty feet; a sleeping-room, of equal size; and lastly, a “Visitor’s room,” petitioned for by Pencroft, and which was next to the great hall.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The issue, for example, in practical politics between Conservatives and Reformers often represents such a conflict: the question is, whether we ought to do a certain violence to expectations arising naturally out of the existing social order, with the view of bringing about a distribution of the means of happiness more in accordance with ideal justice.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Adj. dark, darksome[obs3], darkling; obscure, tenebrious[obs3], sombrous[obs3], pitch dark, pitchy, pitch black; caliginous[obs3]; black &c. (in color) 431.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Pure geometry has postulates which are practical propositions, but contain nothing further than the assumption that we can do something if it is required that we should do it, and these are the only geometrical propositions that concern actual existence.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

The plaza of Zodanga covers a square mile and is bounded by the palaces of the jeddak, the jeds, and other members of the royalty and nobility of Zodanga, as well as by the principal public buildings, cafes, and shops.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

But supposing that these of mine are not such Principles of Reason; yet I am sure they are Principles from Authority of Scripture; as I shall make it appear, when I shall come to speak of the Kingdome of God, (administred by Moses,) over the Jewes, his peculiar people by Covenant.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Coming home to-night, I did go to examine my wife's house accounts, and finding things that seemed somewhat doubtful, I was angry though she did make it pretty plain, but confessed that when she do misse a sum, she do add something to other things to make it, and, upon my being very angry, she do protest she will here lay up something for herself to buy her a necklace with, which madded me and do still trouble me, for I fear she will forget by degrees the way of living cheap and under a sense of want.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 30: August/September 1664 by Samuel Pepys

The frail and clinging type is an adjustment to the tastes of man, produced partly by custom and partly by breeding.
— from Sex and Society: Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex by William Isaac Thomas

Undoubtedly our people pay by check much more commonly and much more largely than people of any other country.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

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— from Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Lytton, Constance, Lady

Measured on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis, China in 2006 stood as the second-largest economy in the world after the US, although in per capita terms the country is still lower middle-income and 130 million Chinese fall below international poverty lines.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

“I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture,” Prompted by consideration for the feelings of the blind man, this expression would by him be interpreted as meaning, These arrogant Pharisees, then, can after all do me
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods

Aux situations nouvelles, il faut des hommes nouveaux , was the principle proclaimed by Clémenceau.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron

Plants of Linaria vulgaris were grown in two adjacent beds; in the one were plants produced by cross-fertilisation, that is, from seeds obtained after fertilisation by pollen of another plant of the same species; in the other grew plants produced by self-fertilisation, that is from seed produced as the result of pollination of the same flower.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

The importance attached to such dedications by the great men of Rome, and the value, in particular, placed by Cicero on a compliment of this nature from Varro, is established by a letter of the orator to Atticus— “You know,” says he, “that, till lately, I composed nothing but orations, or some such works, into which I could not introduce Varro’s name with propriety.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop