Why, for instance, should the following caution be given, when art of every kind must contaminate the mind; and why entangle the grand motives of action, which reason and religion equally combine to enforce, with pitiful worldly shifts and slight of hand tricks to gain the applause of gaping tasteless fools?
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

They sprang from their saddles, the animals were set at liberty to refresh themselves, and the riders eagerly came to exhibit their acquisitions and give an account of themselves.
— from Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

For me, having come by misfortune, and renounced every comfort, the effulgent lord of men, Rāghava, is dwelling in the woods.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

As with them religious emotion constitutes the essence of religion, they make use of all means of producing it, and especially the excitement which comes from sympathy.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

The shore, at that part where our ships lay, is composed of a steep, rugged, coral rock, nine or ten feet high, except where there are two sandy beaches, which have a reef of the same sort of rock extending cross their entrance to the shore, and defending them from the sea.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr

A newly-built nest then, with rare exceptions, contains the entire laying of one female.
— from Bramble-Bees and Others by Jean-Henri Fabre

The Holy Roman Empire continued to exist as a sort of scare-crow state, without men, without money, without hope and without courage.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

It is not likely that this line of road ever cost to exceed $25,000 a mile, or that those who then owned the road paid much more than two-thirds of its actual cost for it.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee

[8] Original reads 'easile'; corrected to 'easilie'.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (06 of 12) Richard the First by Raphael Holinshed

The first parchment was headed: SCHEME FOR ECONOMY IN REALM "Economy" caught the eye in pale pink.
— from Once on a Time by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

It was: "That he repented ever coming to England, and that after two days he would go back home if the king continued in the mind he was of treating of the peace before his marriage, and that the king must choose whether they were to live afterwards as the greatest friends or the greatest enemies, for it must be one or the other.
— from Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. 2. (of 3) Abridged and Fully Illustrated by Agnes Strickland