The same causes which make the members of the community independent of each other, continually impel them to new and restless desires, and constantly spur them onwards.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

He would not be convinced that Agnes was really dead, and continued to insist that the Walls of St. Clare still confined her.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

It was interesting and Rilla discovered a certain aptitude in herself for it that surprised her.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

He himself on that night had kept on rushing down and climbing up like a squirrel, directing, encouraging, watching all along the line.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Raffles drew a crumpled paper from his pocket.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Mrs. Wilkins's quick eyes saw it all, and she said to herself, in the closet, as she cut bread and rattled down a cup and saucer: "That's what she wants, poor creeter; I'll let her have a right nice time, and warm and feed and chirk her up, and then I'll see what's to be done for her.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

to withhold, be sparing of, deny, refuse, reject, decline , AO, CP: forbid, prevent from .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

wǣd f. robe, dress, apparel, clothing, garment, covering : sail , ES 40·326.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

See the "Digeste des Lois de la Louisiane," in two volumes; and the "Traite sur les Regles des Actions civiles," printed in French and English at New Orleans in 1830.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

She implored the agency which was responsible for the sounds to leave her alone at school and do what seemed best to it at home, and the rappings did actually cease at school.
— from The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by William James Stillman

During a truce with Tegea, Lichas, one of the chiefs of the three hundred Spartan chosen youth, who acted as the movable police of the country under the ephors, visited the place, and entered the forge of a blacksmith,—who mentioned to him, in the course of conversation, that, in sinking a well in his outer court, he had recently discovered a coffin containing a body seven cubits long; astounded at the sight, he had left it there undisturbed.
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote

An ancient rhetorician delivered a caution against dwelling too long on the excitation of pity; for nothing, he said, dries so soon as tears; and Shakspeare acted conformably to this ingenious maxim without having learned it.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Although he was lying there and dreaming, he remembered distinctly and clearly what had happened the first time he wished to be married.
— from Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlöf

One body, they knew, had the power of electrifying another, but only to let the mysterious force pass on, like a current of water running down a cataract.
— from Lightning Conductors: Their History, Nature, and Mode of Application by Anderson, Richard, F.C.S.

A concentrated Cabinet, a Cabinet of republican defence, a Cabinet of transition, a bloc of the Centre—are these accidental deformities of the parliamentary régime, or are they forms toward which it must necessarily tend?
— from The New German Constitution by René Brunet

The two requirements discussed above cause no difficulty from the point of view of an independent spiritual life.
— from Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Eucken

WATERCRESS AND EGG SALAD Wash thoroughly, trim off roots, drain, and chill watercress.
— from Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners: A Book of Recipes by Elizabeth O. Hiller

Owing in part to a technical defect in the Protestant regulations, dishonesty and carelessness were not excluded from the management and distribution of the poor fund, the administration falling, as a matter of course, into the hands of the lowest class of officials.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

What is the physical condition of the children born in London of parents who are natives of the rural districts, as compared with the physical condition of children who are born in the country of parents of the same class?—The children born and bred up in London are more frequently of small stature and have slender limbs, are deficient in stamina and powers of endurance, are of irritable frames and prone to inflammatory attack, than children born and bred up in the country.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick