But it is vain to expect the present race of weak mothers either to take that reasonable care of a child's body, which is necessary to lay the foundation of a good constitution, supposing that it do not suffer for the sins of its fathers; or to manage its temper so judiciously that the child will not have, as it grows up, to throw off all that its mother, its first instructor, directly or indirectly taught, and unless the mind have uncommon vigour, womanish follies will stick to the character throughout life.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

V. elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on, press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

As we have already seen, will means an attitude toward the future, toward the production of possible consequences, an attitude involving effort to foresee clearly and comprehensively the probable results of ways of acting, and an active identification with some anticipated consequences.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The inconveniences of one kind have caused sundry others to be devised; so that in a word, all public regiment, of what kind soever, seemeth evidently to have risen from the deliberate advice, consultation and composition between men, judging it convenient and behoveful; there being no impossibility in nature considered by itself, but that man might have lived without any public regiment, Hooker's Eccl.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

at 11 oClock brought too a Small Caissee in which was two french men, from 80 Leagues up the Kansias R. where they wintered, and Cought a great quantity of Beaver, the greater part of which they lost by fire from the Praries, those men inform that the Kansas Nation are now out in the plains hunting Buffalow, they hunted last winter on this river Passed a projecting rock on which was painted a figue and a Creek at 2 ms. above Called Little Manitou Creek from the Painted rock this Creek 20 yds.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

A solemn embassy, armed with full powers and magnificent gifts, was hastily sent to deprecate the wrath of Attila; and his pride was gratified by the choice of Nomius and Anatolius, two ministers of consular or patrician rank, of whom the one was great treasurer, and the other was master-general of the armies of the East.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

By the will of Zeus who holds the aegis the people of Phricon, riders on wanton horses, more active than raging fire in the test of war, once built the towers of Aeolian Smyrna, wave-shaken neighbour to the sea, through which glides the pleasant stream of sacred Meles; thence 2602 arose the daughters of Zeus, glorious children, and would fain have made famous that fair country and the city of its people.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

The preservation of our own forces has a negative object, leads therefore to the defeat of the enemy's intentions, that is to pure resistance, of which the final aim can be nothing more than to prolong the duration of the contest, so that the enemy shall exhaust himself in it.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

We cannot close this chapter of our little book without asking, Were the motives which led our friend to sign the pledge, right or wrong?
— from The Hero of the Humber; Or, The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Henry Woodcock

These two trench daggers, which had attracted [Pg 133] Willatopy as "just the things for sharks," bring me to the display before my patient readers of Willatopy the Sportsman.
— from Madame Gilbert's Cannibal by Bennet Copplestone

Preliminary Report on, Washington, 1862.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

What can the opinion of the world matter to us, if we know that our own method of procedure, regardless of whether men abuse it or not, is actuated by pure motives?"
— from The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann

With Innocent he continued in high favour, and now, constantly in the councils of the Pope, rumours of warlike preparation, under the banners of Albornoz, for the recovery of the papal dominions from the various tyrants that usurped them, were already circulated through the court.
— from Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The cliffs of this island are composed of a fissile primitive rock, on which sandstone reposes in regular beds.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King

A cup of tea stood beside her upon a table near a bowl of red and yellow tulips, a canary was singing in its cage amid a shower of bird-seed, and “the dog” lay stretched before the blazing fire upon a milk-white rug, over which a pale ray of winter sunshine fell.
— from The Prophet of Berkeley Square by Robert Hichens

The socialists and economic apostles have to face this: no possible raising of women's wages can abolish prostitution.
— from The Truth About Woman by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

"And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, gleaming as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
— from Memoranda Sacra by J. Rendel (James Rendel) Harris

The dinner hour and part of the evening were spent in pleasant reminiscences of what each had seen since leaving Harrisville.
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton