In other words, perception perfected its grammar before perceiving any of its objects, and having imputed that grammar to the materials of sense, it was able to perceive objects for the first time and to legislate further about their relations.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Nabuthan ákung pálad pagbinughà, I got blisters on my palms from chopping wood.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A very graphic and amusing account of this pretended prophet is given by Grafton, in his Chronicles of England .
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

The girls will help you about them, and I will pay for the making up," replied Mrs. March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests, because she so seldom asked anything for herself.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

"The Occult Power preached pacifism and humanitarianism in France by means of French Freemasonry whilst it preached patriotism in Germany by means of German Freemasonry."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

The girls will help you about them, and I will pay for the making up," replied Mrs. March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests because she so seldom asked anything for herself.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

ARTICLE 153 The right of private property is guaranteed by the Constitution.
— from The New German Constitution by René Brunet

The average produce per acre of a few of the principal plots is given below.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

The other cradle has slip decoration by Joseph Glass, 1703; while beside it is an old Posset Pot inscribed “God bless Queen Ann.”
— from Chats on English China by Arthur Hayden

Their original page position is given by their filename (e.g. p304.jpg was originally on page 304).
— from A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow by Thomas James Wise

7. —Pattern produced in gelatine by the diffusion of drops of silver nitrate and sodium carbonate.
— from The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH ( 1 8 6 5 ) by W. H. RUSSELL NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS International Standard Book Number 0-87021-806-9 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 75-184620 First published in 1865 Published and Distributed in the United States of America by the Naval Institute Press Printed in Great Britain LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Weighing anchor off the Maplin Sands, Nore, July 15, 1865 ii OPPOSITE PAGE
— from The Atlantic Telegraph (1865) by Russell, William Howard, Sir

By its light Grace cleared away as much more of the dirt and shale as possible, piling in green boughs in their place.
— from Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Old Apache Trail by Josephine Chase

In view of the large number of propertyless people in Great Britain and the nervous restlessness of the race since it has become a race of town-dwellers we cannot wonder at the rapid growth of British Socialism, and we must look forward to its further increase.
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker

The reverend was accompanied by his god-son, who seemed to be about the age of this pretty page" (indicating Gonthram); "but he was far from resembling him, for I never saw a face more sly and hypocritical than that child of the Church wore."
— from The Sword of Honor; or, The Foundation of the French Republic A Tale of The French Revolution by Eugène Sue

Besides, the identity of the German and Prussian politics is guaranteed by the fact that the German Emperor and the King of Prussia happen to be one and the same person.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various