Come!” That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch behind a heap of rubbish, with the patient rage of a pointer.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And would a man be more ridiculous, who would expect that an infant of four years old will raise a weight of three hundred pound, than one, who from a person of the same age would look for a philosophical reasoning, or a prudent and well-concerted action?
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I do not, by thus subordinating the two things in importance to the Kula, mean to express a philosophical reflection or a personal opinion as to the relative value of these pursuits from the point of view of some social teleology.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

yet not suiting with every low decrepit humour of their own, though it were Knox himself, the reformer of a kingdom, that spake it, they will not pardon him their dash: the sense of that great man shall to all posterity be lost, for the fearfulness or the presumptuous rashness of a perfunctory licenser.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a prioress at nine years.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Let the Platonists reply, or any philosophers, or the theurgists, or rather, periurgists , [406] —for this name is good enough for those who practise such arts.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Then would he have rent off his helm and slain him, but the hermit of that place ran out, and prayed him to forbear, and shielded Sir Bors with his body.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

And ye shall understand, that merchants that come from Genoa or from Venice or from Romania or other parts of Lombardy, they go by sea and by land eleven months or twelve, or more some-time, ere they may come to the isle of Cathay that is the principal region of all parts beyond; and it is of the great Chan.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

In describing the plastic removal of a portion of the scrotum
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Anyone, whom business or curiosity has taken through Park Row or across Printing House Square in the midnight hour, when the air is filled with the roar of great presses spinning with printers’ ink on endless rolls of white paper the history of the world in the twenty-four hours that have just passed away, has seen little groups of these boys hanging about the newspaper offices; in winter, when snow is on the streets, fighting for warm spots around the grated vent-holes that let out the heat and steam from the underground press-rooms with their noise and clatter, and in summer playing craps and 7-11 on the curb for their hard-earned pennies, with all the absorbing concern of hardened gamblers.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

At the same time it should be observed that the Pacific railroads occupied a peculiarly advantageous position in respect to the loans which the government made to them.
— from Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific by Stuart Daggett

At least, with the insistence upon Christ as a personal revealer of a personal God, it must become more true that the meaning of all terms for the work of Christ shall be more clearly reasonable, more consistently ethical, and more completely spiritual; and then the immediate rooting of Christian theology in the Christian religion can be seen and felt.
— from Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by Henry Churchill King

The protestations and heated disputes continued between them thus for hours; the point of Olivares evidently being to secure the marriage of the Palgrave's son with a daughter of the Emperor or other Spanish nominee without a prior restitution of any part of the Palatinate.
— from The Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

Even while we write-while the corpse of the murdered man, followed by a few brother craftsmen, is being borne to its last resting-place, the perpetrator, released on a paltry bail, is being regaled at a festive board.
— from Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

If it is necessary to increase the revenue, let us meet that subject fairly and fully, and not single out a particular resource of a particular State.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

"There are persistent rumours of a plot to bring back the old régime and put either a Hohenzollern or a representative of some other Royal house on the Thorne of Germany."— Canadian Paper .
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 28, 1919 by Various

Such are the strange political revenges of a personal quarrel.
— from Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George Washington Julian

Be foreman in printing room of above paper.
— from The Boy and the Sunday School A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday School with Teen Age Boys by John L. Alexander