To render it permanent, analysis and reflection must be called into play.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

I will wait bravely, patiently, reverently, in prayer and adoration, until it please God to call us unto Himself.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

This river cannot be navagable as an unpracticable rapid is within one mile of its enterance into the Columbia, and we are fully purswaded that a rout by this river if practicable at all, would lengthen the distance greatly and incounter the Same dificuelties in passing the Rocky Mountains with the rout by way of Travellers rest Creek & Clarks river.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Its use, however, extended beyond the Brahmans; for we read in Patanjali about a head-groom disputing with a grammarian as to the etymology of the Sanskrit word for “charioteer” ( sūta ).
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

But unfortunately for the colonization of Hood's Isle with a choice variety of animated nature, the extraordinary and devilish aspect of Oberlus made him to be regarded in Payta as a highly suspicious character.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

and they all crowded 'round it, panting and asking, "But who has won?"
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

But that duty which those same Stoics call "right" is perfect and absolute and "satisfies all the numbers," [BC] as that same school says, and is attainable by none except the wise man.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Some Coffee Recipes When Mrs. Ida C. Bailey Allen prepared a booklet of recipes for the Joint Coffee Trade Publicity Committee, she introduced them with the following remarks on the use of coffee as a flavoring agent: Although coffee is our national beverage, comparatively few cooks realize its possibilities as a flavoring agent.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

After five or six days it ripens in patches, and a few days later the rice is altogether ripe.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The wife of a pattern maker told me it requires ingenuity, patience, and a knowledge of drawing to become a pattern maker.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

After giving orders concerning my trunk, he told me to follow him, and we soon reached his carriage, and telling me to jump in he drove to a beautiful residence, sufficiently distant from the business centre of the city to render it pleasant and agreeable.
— from Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past by Harriet S. Caswell

From Bristol, the army turned southward, and encountered what royalist force there was in that quarter, stormed Bridgewater, drove the royalist generals into Cornwall, took Winchester, battered down Basing House, rich in provisions, ammunition, and silver plate, and completely prostrated all the hopes of the king in the south of England.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

If the mind gives itself up to subtilties, it ceases to listen to the voice of the heart, which speaks to it with equal simplicity and eloquence; if it does not repress its pride, and attend to the wise counsels of good sense, it will be guilty of despising those salutary and necessary truths, which have been preserved by society to be transmitted from generation to generation: it is then, while groping its way in the dark, that it falls into the wildest extravagances, the lamentable effects of which are so often exemplified in the history of the sciences.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

And this relation will be an element in most cases inasmuch as one rarely is present at a quarrel without some share in it.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

And even the tract ascribed to Albertus Magnus, in which the tablet of Hermes is mentioned, and the discovery related, is probably also a forgery; and doubtless a forgery of the same individual who fabricated the tablet itself, in order to throw a greater air of probability upon a story which he wished to palm upon the world as true.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

Nah it soa happened at only that varry afternooin, th' owd feller had been readin ith' paper, abaat a man havin escaped throo a mad haase somwhear or other, an it struck him at Sydney must be th' varry chap, soa he wor in sich a funk 'at he didn't know whativver to do, but he thowt th' best thing wod be to keep as still as he could, an not vex Sydney, soa he sat daan as quiet as owt an sed nowt.
— from Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect by John Hartley

Jews were again allowed to reside in Prague and a few other Bohemian towns, and were also re-admitted to Austria.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz