Piety is one of the popular virtues, whereas soap and Socialism are two hobbies of the upper middle class.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

p. 22 , ℞ 10 , 33 , 471 Mackerel is the oiliest fish, and plentiful, very well suited for the making of G. G. was also a pickle made of the blood and the gills of the tunny and of the intestines of mackerel and other fish.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Received from the front and narrated by a soldier who professes to have been an eyewitness, they are nevertheless clothed in the public view with special authority.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

One of the Jesuits, Padre Villelmi, was skilled in the Arabic language, and this familiarity with the language and literature of Mohammedanism doubtless explains his ascendency over the mind of the sultan.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Poor Valentine was saddened to the core.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

" "You play very well," said Crawley, laughing.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

It has samples of half-a-dozen different kinds of marsupials—[A marsupial is a plantigrade vertebrate whose specialty is its pocket.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Though Mr Allworthy was not of himself hasty to see things in a disadvantageous light, and was a stranger to the public voice, which seldom reaches to a brother or a husband, though it rings in the ears of all the neighbourhood; yet was this affection of Mrs Blifil to Tom, and the preference which she too visibly gave him to her own son, of the utmost disadvantage to that youth.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

But it is easy to perceive in every heart that is warmed by it, in all the actions it inspires, a glowing and sublime ardour which does not attend the purest virtue, when separated from it.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Home to dinner with my wife, who not being very well did not dress herself but staid at home all day, and so I to church in the afternoon and so home again, and up to teach Ashwell the grounds of time and other things on the tryangle, and made her take out a Psalm very well, she having a good ear and hand.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And here let me express the hope that, as a matter of policy, vegetarians will stand aloof from all "philanthropic" schemes of vicarious food reform in prisons, reformatories, and workhouses; for there is no surer way of making a principle unpopular than by forcing it on the poor and helpless, while carefully avoiding it one's self.
— from The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues by Henry S. Salt

My opinion, as a medical man, was not asked; but my diagnosis, before a medical class, would have been this:— "Gentlemen, in the case of Miss Rose P—— there is considerable physical vigor, which seems to show itself by an extraordinary activity and strength of muscle, and an unusual ebullition of animal spirits.
— from Our Girls by Dio Lewis

Such things the public voice will say of us, In life or death our fame will never end.
— from Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Sophocles

Richard , the subject of the active verb shot , becomes by Richard , an adverbial phrase, modifying the passive verb was shot .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Bertha’s eyes ached for the cool green of tree foliage, but the only green leaves to be seen were from the pumpkin vines, which she herself had planted by the veranda in the springtime, and which had flourished and spread until they made a shade of greenery most welcome to the eye.
— from The Youngest Sister: A Tale of Manitoba by Bessie Marchant

Then I close-to the latch, and she—the living woman—asks me in her purring voice what sound I heard, hiding a smile as she stoops low over her work; and I answer lightly, and, moving towards her, put my arm about her, feeling her softness and her suppleness, and wondering, supposing I held her close to me with one arm while pressing her from me with the other, how long before I should hear the cracking of her bones.
— from John Ingerfield, and Other Stories by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

They take away the taste for other books, as G. Paris very well says: [227] "When one has feasted on these substantial pages, so full of facts, which, with all their appearance of impersonality, yet contain, and above all suggest, so many thoughts, it is difficult to read books, even books of distinction, in which the subject is cut up symmetrically to fit in with a preconceived system, is coloured by fancy, and is, so to speak, presented to us in disguise, books in which the author continually comes between us and the spectacle which he claims to make intelligible to us, but which he never allows us to see."
— from Introduction to the Study of History by Charles Seignobos

This was illustrated in a speech later in the session, in which he alluded to his colleague from Bucks County, Mr. Ross, who had attacked him in a violent pro-slavery harangue: "There is," said Mr. Stevens, "in the natural world, a little, spotted, contemptible animal, which is armed by nature with a fetid, volatile, penetrating virus , which so pollutes whoever attacks it as to make him offensive to himself and all around him for a long time.
— from Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George Washington Julian

Those who can read with any comfort the crabbed Norman-French and Early English poetic versions will see at once where I have added incidents that may bring the story into a connected whole, as nearly as possible on the old Saga lines; and those readers to whom the old romance is new will hardly wish that I should pull the story to pieces again, to no purpose so far as they are concerned.
— from Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

They quote a number of well-known verses of the Telugu poet Vēmana, who satirised the Brāhmans for their shortcomings, and refer to the Sanskrit Mulastambam and Silpasastram, which are treatises on architecture.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston