These proportions appear at first very easy to note, because, being relative to each man's position in the world, their incidence is always public: but proper regard is seldom paid to all the elements that should enter into such a calculation, even apart from deception arising from avarice, fraud and self-interest.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"I beg your pardon, sir; but just because of the prospective relationship, I should prefer your consulting Mr. Skipworth or Mr. Redwood."
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Towards the east, through a curtain of verdure, picturesquely raised in some places, sparkled an horizon of sea.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

At Kotah the bare protruding rock in some places presents not a trace of vegetation; but where it bevels off to the banks of the Par it is one of the richest and most productive soils in India, and better cultivated than any spot even of British India.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

'The minds of anglers,' says the gentle Colonel Robert Venables, 'be usually more calm and composed than many others; when he hath the worst success he loseth but a hook or line, or perhaps what he never possessed, a fish; and suppose he should take nothing, yet he enjoyeth a delightful walk by pleasant rivers, in sweet pastures, amongst odoriferous flowers, which gratify his senses and delight his mind; and if example, which is the best proof, may sway anything, I know no sort of men less subject to [Pg 123] melancholy than anglers.'
— from The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Nay, even in the heart of busy London, old Paternoster Row is so provided with spaces where two carts may pass abreast.
— from The Making of William Edwards; or, The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus), Mrs.

That scripture also greatly helped it to fasten the more upon me, where Christ prays against Judas, that God would disappoint him in all his selfish thoughts, which moved him to sell his master: pray read it soberly (Psa 109:6-20).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

Philippa repeated, in some perplexity.
— from Philippa by Mrs. Molesworth

Thus equally misguided too, many a barren-brained author has streamed into a frothy flowing style, pompously rolling into sounding periods, signifying —roundly nothing; of which number, in some of my former labours, I am something more than suspicious, that I may myself have made one, but to keep a little closer to Betterton.
— from The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Samuel James Arnold

In reviewing the course of geological thought during the past year, for the purpose of discovering those matters to which I might most fitly direct your attention in the Address which it now becomes my duty to deliver from the Presidential Chair, the two somewhat alarming sentences which I have just read, and which occur in an able and interesting essay by an eminent natural philosopher, rose into such prominence before my mind that they eclipsed everything else.
— from Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

recipere vel retinere presumat, et predictus Thomas predictum Radulfum nuper seruientem predicti Prioris in seruicio suo apud Werpesgrave retentum qui ab eodem seruicio ante finem termini inter eos concordati sine causa racionabili et licencia predicti Prioris recessit, in seruicium predicti
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

Published as part of the AEC’s educational assistance program, the series includes these titles: Accelerators Animals in Atomic Research Atomic Fuel Atomic Power Safety Atoms at the Science Fair Atoms in Agriculture Atoms, Nature, and Man Careers in Atomic Energy Computers Controlled Nuclear Fusion Cryogenics, The Uncommon Cold Direct Conversion of Energy Fallout From Nuclear Tests Food Preservation by Irradiation Genetic Effects of Radiation Index to the UAS Series Lasers Microstructure of Matter Neutron Activation Analysis Nondestructive Testing Nuclear Clocks Nuclear Energy for Desalting Nuclear Power and Merchant Shipping Nuclear Power Plants Nuclear Propulsion for Space Nuclear Reactors Nuclear Terms, A Brief Glossary Our Atomic World Plowshare Plutonium Power from Radioisotopes Power Reactors in Small Packages Radioactive Wastes Radioisotopes and Life Processes Radioisotopes in Industry Radioisotopes in Medicine Rare Earths Reading Resources in Atomic Energy Research Reactors SNAP, Nuclear Space Reactors Sources of Nuclear Fuel Space Radiation Synthetic Transuranium Elements The Atom and the Ocean The Chemistry of the Noble Gases The First Reactor Whole Body Counters Your Body and Radiation
— from Nuclear Clocks Revised by Henry Faul