The next topic was public places, or rather the theatres, for they knew of no other; and the merits and defects of all the actors and actresses were discussed: the young man here took the lead, and seemed to be very conversant on the subject.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

there is a big vase of them on the mantelpiece behind the pale photograph of Rubinstein . . .
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

ANGER is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind, upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

As concerning knowledge, strictly so called, the a priori principles of reason ( e.g. substance and attribute, cause and effect etc.) are valid only within the realm of possible sense-experience.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

586 -88, 703 -6; and the "Great Society," 600 -601; and human nature, 594 -98; literature of, 641 -42; and man as the fighting animal, 600 -603; and possibility of its sublimation, 598 ; the preliminary process of rejuvenescence, 596 -97; and progress, 984 -89; in relation to instincts and ideals, 576 -77, 594 -603; as relaxation, 598 -603; and social utopia, 599 .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The first part then of paternal power, or rather duty, which is education, belongs so to the father, that it terminates at a certain season; when the business of education is over, it ceases of itself, and is also alienable before: for a man may put the tuition of his son in other hands; and
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

(Isle Vache), this Island is large, opposit to the head on the S. S. is a (2) large Pond, a Bad Sand bar on the S. S. we attemptd without Success, & was oblige to Cross back, I Saw a White horse on the L. S. in view of the upper point of the Island, (3) passed a large Sand bar at the S. point, we halted to day about a mile above the Island and found a horse, which had been lost by the Indians, verry fat and jentle, Sent him on to join the others which was ahead on the L S at this place, the french had a tradeing house, for to trade with the Kanzes on a high bottom on the L. S. near the hills which is Prarie proceeded on round a large Sand bar on the L. S. & Camped (opposit a large Sand bar in the middle of the river).
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Polyanthus Pride of riches.
— from Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway

He never went to Exeter Hall, or heard a popular preacher, or read Tracts for the Times or Sartor Resartus.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

The cool yet sanguinary policy, and the patient perseverance of resolution, with which she prosecuted her design, have seldom been equalled.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius by Suetonius

He expressed his willingness in answer to their request, to release Mr. Vallandigham without asking pledge, promise, or retraction from him, and with only one simple condition.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

Great persons, persons of rank, people of distinction.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

But Dr. Falkirk was faithful to his patients, poor or rich, and without regard to their creed or politics.
— from Brother Against Brother; Or, The War on the Border by Oliver Optic

It will be learned from my previous despatches and telegrams that your action throughout the difficult political situation, which was created in the colony by the indecisive result of the last general election, has met with my approval, but I desire to place publicly on record my high appreciation of the manner in which you have handled a situation practically unprecedented in the history of responsible Government in the Dominions.
— from The Story of Newfoundland by Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of

Carew Ralegh's account was that the plan, perhaps on reflection modified from that, was to revictual in Virginia, and return in the spring to Guiana.
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

Notwithstanding the dangers that surrounded the Court of Henry VIII., and the perilous proximity of relationship in which, by marriage, he stood toward that monarch, specially amid the complications that arose during the impeachments, trials, and sad deaths of the two Queens, his wife's relatives; yet neither Sir Thomas, nor Lady Arundell, seems to have been involved or suspected in any way, indeed, to the contrary, as he appears subsequently to have experienced Henry's favour, it being three years after Queen Katharine Howard's death, when he received the grant of the Priory of Slapton from that king.
— from The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by W. H. Hamilton (William Henry Hamilton) Rogers