That proposal, unexpectedly, roused Linton from his lethargy, and threw him into a strange state of agitation.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

“Jam fuerit, nec post unquam revocare licebit.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

CRITICISM THE influence of theoretical principles upon real life is produced more through criticism than through doctrine, for as criticism is an application of abstract truth to real events, therefore it not only brings truth of this description nearer to life, but also accustoms the understanding more to such truths by the constant repetition of their application.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

From Theme. ēd- edō , eat ed- lēg- legō , pick up , read leg- Other examples are: fodiō , dig , fōdī ; fundō , pour , fūdī ; linquō , leave , līquī ; see 936-946 .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

legō , pick up , read legere lēgī lēctus Compounds with ad ,
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

V. restrain, check; put under restraint, lay under restraint; enthral, enthrall, inthral[obs3], inthrall[obs3], bethral[obs3], bethrall[obs3]; restrict; debar &c. (hinder) 706; constrain; coerce &c. (compel) 744; curb, control; hold back, hold from, hold in, hold in check, hold within bounds, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep within bounds; hold in leash, hold in leading strings; withhold.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The industrial revolution has put a pressure upon rural life that is more important even than the attraction of cities.
— from The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson

A little farther westward is the old-time Sunset Park, unhappily rechristened "Lafayette" during the war, a pretty bit of gardening surrounded by wide boulevards.
— from On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

She was not an ardent pedestrian, and mounted laboriously with the help of a long-handled parasol, uttering reproachful little ejaculations and complaints the while for the benefit of the two young Americans, who, good-naturedly loaded up with the ladies' folding chairs, rugs and cushions, followed close behind.
— from Adrian Savage: A Novel by Lucas Malet

With your usual acuteness, which I have rarely known at fault, unless confronted by a plain unvarnished robbery like the doing to death of the favourite (and very nearly the backers) in our fatal year, you have hit the gold.
— from The Crooked Stick; Or, Pollie's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood

Of her position under Roman law before this period Maine (Gaius) says: The jurisconsults had evidently at this time assumed the equality of the sexes as a principle of the law of equity.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

After some years Isabella returned with her son, and a national assembly at Clausenburg , in A.D. 1557, gave an organization to the country as an independent principality, and proclaimed universal religious liberty.
— from Church History, Volume 2 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

This, Helen had believed at the time; but his present unguarded remarks led her to entertain strong doubts of its truth.
— from Bertha's Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

His book is planned upon RATIONAL LINES , . . .
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

Philip, unaccountably restless, left his seat in a very few minutes, and, making his way to the box office, scribbled a line to Elizabeth.
— from The Cinema Murder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim