It is the extent and accuracy of steps three and four which mark off a distinctive reflective experience from one on the trial and error plane.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The only omission in this reprint is of those notes which merely list variant readings, either from one of the folios or quartos or from a previous editor.
— from Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson

To remedy this, Brorson, in 1732, wrote a number of his famous Christmas hymns, among them ‘Den yndigste Rose er funden,’ one of the most exquisite gems in sacred poetry.
— from The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden

I first thought it a ruse, and hardly worth attention, but on reflection deemed it best to be on the safe side, so I abandoned the cavalry raid toward Charlottesville, in order to give General Wright the entire strength of the army, for it did not seem wise to reduce his numbers while reinforcement for the enemy might be near, and especially when such pregnant messages were reaching Early from one of the ablest of the Confederate generals.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete by Philip Henry Sheridan

[Pg 150] over five minutes, and the boy had the impertinence to tell me he had been out running errands for one of the tenants.
— from The Brute by Frederic Arnold Kummer

The cigarreras are deeply religious, and at a recent Easter festival one of the pasos of the Virgin was presented with a splendid new mantle at a cost of 9,000 dollars, for the purchase of which the 7,000 workers had each contributed two centimos a week during the preceding year.
— from Things seen in Spain by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

Soon after full darkness had fallen some of the most regal equipages fell out of the procession by failing to turn the outside corner of the drive, and wended their way homeward.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

This is a very rare example from one of the earliest sets woven at Beauvais when the factory was under the direction of Behagle.
— from Catalogue of the Retrospective Loan Exhibition of European Tapestries by San Francisco Museum of Art

In some cases, the same variety of beans may be used in the three ways mentioned, while in others certain kinds are raised expressly for one of these purposes.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

As we neared the town we saw three men going about arm in arm; this friendliness seemed strange to us after our recent experiences, for one of them wore a white cockade, the second a tricolour, and the third none at all, and yet they went about on the most brotherly terms, each awaiting under a different banner the outcome of events.
— from Massacres of the South (1551-1815) Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas