There is no real evidence, although Le Soleil so supposes, that the articles discovered had been more than a very few days in the thicket; while there is much circumstantial proof that they could not have remained there, without attracting attention, during the twenty days elapsing between the fatal Sunday and the afternoon upon which they were found by the boys.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Why, yes, he said, and there is no harm; were it not that little by little this spirit of licence, finding a home, imperceptibly penetrates into manners and customs; whence, issuing with greater force, it invades contracts between man and E man, and from contracts goes on to laws and constitutions, in utter recklessness, ending at last, Socrates, by an overthrow of all rights, private as well as public.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Why, yes, he said, and there is no harm; were it not that little by little this spirit of licence, finding a home, imperceptibly penetrates into manners and customs; whence, issuing with greater force, it invades contracts between man and man, and from contracts goes on to laws and constitutions, in utter recklessness, ending at last, Socrates, by an overthrow of all rights, private as well as public.
— from The Republic by Plato

She raised her big round eyes, and looked straight into mine, and said: "You mean to say that because God is with the sinners, therefore when you do them any service you do it to God?
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

They listened, they called, and then uniting their voices, they endeavored to raise even a louder shout than before, which would be transmitted to a great distance.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

George said that in that case we must take a rug each, a lamp, some soap, a brush and comb (between us), a toothbrush (each), a basin, some tooth-powder, some shaving tackle (sounds like a French exercise, doesn’t it?), and a couple of big-towels for bathing.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

The analysis here given explains why the worst charge which can ever be brought against rapacious extortioners and legal sharpers is, that they appropriate for themselves the goods of widows and orphans.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

It read: “Engström and Linner, Stockholm.
— from Sant of the Secret Service: Some Revelations of Spies and Spying by William Le Queux

Lesd. parties revenans ensemble a la somme de vingt mil livres tournoys.
— from The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America by Henry Cruse Murphy

And if he prefers another and still more airy location—(laughter)—he may go on again and inhabit our recently erected and lofty storey of the Rocky Mountain District, near which he would again find an ample supply of coal, nearly as good as that which he found "down below."
— from Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of

Yet without the child's craving for the mother [21] he would not have become a compulsive neurotic, [22] with all the hypermorality of the latter, pride in his moral purity and extravagant self reproaches, even a lustful self laceration after he had at one single time been overpowered by sensuality.
— from Sleep Walking and Moon Walking: A Medico-Literary Study by J. Sadger

The entrance was completely blocked up with red earth and loose stones, the latter, apparently, having been placed there by design ( Figs. 36 , 37 ).
— from Cave Hunting Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe by William Boyd Dawkins

RAMPAR EEL, a lamprey, S. Statist.
— from An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals by John Jamieson

After taking possession of Ahmedábád in April 1753, Raghunáthráv went to Sorath, and on his return extorted a large sum as tribute from the Nawáb of Cambay.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

In his chapter on Louis Agassiz and George Berkeley he gives this just tribute to Agassiz: "The writer was a man of transcendent genius for scientific discovery, with intense earnestness and enthusiasm for the pursuit of truth, and rare eloquence and literary skill.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, June 1899 Volume LV by Various