And this admiration for the communal morality of insects is expressed in many other modern writers in various quarters and shapes; in Mr. Benjamin Kidd’s theory of living only for the evolutionary future of our race, and in the great interest of some Socialists in ants, which they generally prefer to bees, I suppose, because they are not so brightly colored.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

It's a strange thing—sometimes when I'm quite alone, sitting in my room with my eyes closed, or walking over the hills, the people I've seen and known, if it's only been for a few days, are brought before me, and I hear their voices and see them look and move almost plainer than I ever did when they were really with me so as I could touch them.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

When it has appeared, we may perceive that its influence is rational, since it both expresses and fosters a harmony of impressions and impulses in the soul; but to take any mechanism whatever, and merely because it is actual or necessary to insist that it is worth exhibiting, and that by divine decree it shall be pronounced beautiful, is to be quite at sea in moral philosophy.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And the perception of their contrast or relation quickens and sets in motion the mind, which is puzzled by the confused intimations of sense, and has recourse to number in order to find out whether the things indicated are one or more than one.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

This extremely artful suggestion Mr. Barkis accompanied with a nudge of his elbow that gave me quite a stitch in my side.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

And your benignë fader tendrely Hath doon you kept… You will find a note quite as sincere in many a carol, many a ballad, of that time:— He came al so still There his mother was, As dew in April
— from On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

As regards the quantities available, some idea may be formed by plucking a ripe head from a garden poppy and shaking out the little round seeds through the windows on the top.
— from The Chemistry of Cookery by W. Mattieu (William Mattieu) Williams

Answers are often made by repeating a word prominent in the question, and so it must have been in this case, “Every where.”
— from Proof-Reading A Series of Essays for Readers and Their Employers, and for Authors and Editors by F. Horace (Francis Horace) Teall

One day whin she'd said a sharp word, wid another from me, an' the child clinging to her dress, she turned quick and struck it, meanin' to anger me.
— from A Romany of the Snows, vol. 1 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre by Gilbert Parker

But indeed nobody knows what inarticulate traditions, remnants of old wisdom, priceless though quite anonymous, survive in many modern things that still have life in them.
— from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle

a la calidad y gravedad de cada uno. DOCUMENTS Hanse embiado Inquisidores que hagan dilixencia en salamanca toro çamora Palencia logroño y en otros lugares donde los principales domatistas y culpados questan presos han frequentado mas sus comunicaciones de que se presume an hecho mucho daño y a sevilla se embio el obispo de taraçona que a sido Inquisidor muchos años para {569} que como persona de expiriencia y de la dignidad que tiene asista con los Inquisidores y personas que entienden en los negocios de alla y de color y auctoridad a lo que alli se hiciere
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

The marble of commerce includes a small quantity of serpentine as quarried and sold in Massachusetts, California, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Vermont, and also a small amount of so-called onyx marble or travertine obtained from caves and other deposits in Kentucky and other states.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

Substance is more real than quality, and subject is more real than substance.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

Yet a more distinct manifestation of Quality as such, in mind even, is found in the case of besotted or morbid conditions, especially in states of passion and when the passion rises to derangement.
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel