As this book contained some vivid pictures of the distant regions the traveller had visited, as well as of the impressions he had received of land and people in the new world, it was read with all the allurements of a novel.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

He is the repository of Loyalty and Patriotism.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Unquestionably there were but few things to put away, if there had been one; but, however few in number, or small in individual amount, still, remnants of loaves and pieces of cheese, and damp towels, and scrags of meat, and articles of wearing apparel, and mutilated crockery, and bellows without nozzles, and toasting-forks without prongs, do present somewhat of an uncomfortable appearance when they are scattered about the floor of a small apartment, which is the common sitting and sleeping room of three idle men.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Religion, per se, has nothing to do with morality; yet both offshoots of the Jewish religion are essentially moral religions—which prescribe the rules of living, and procure obedience to their principles by means of rewards and punishment.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The more he sees her, the worse he is,— uritque videndo , as in a burning-glass, the sunbeams are re-collected to a centre, the rays of love are projected from her eyes.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Then it tightened round one leg and Patrick dragged him along like a maniac.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

And from thence, as the wearisome years rolled on, long after Poor Mickey fell down in the water tower to his death Down, down, through bellowing darkness, I carried The vision which perished with him like a rocket which falls And quenches its light in earth, and hid it for fear Of the son of the banker, calling on Plutus to save me?
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

In all cases, a direct tax upon the wages of labour must, in the long-run, occasion both a greater reduction in the rent of land, and a greater rise in the price of manufactured goods than would have followed from the proper assessment of a sum equal to the produce of the tax, partly upon the rent of land, and partly upon consumable commodities.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Qu. 23. Is not Vision perform'd chiefly by the Vibrations of this Medium, excited in the bottom of the Eye by the Rays of Light, and propagated through the solid, pellucid and uniform Capillamenta of the optick Nerves into the place of Sensation?
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

171 Axylos, a woodless tract in Asia Minor, ‘northward of the region of lakes and plains, through which leads the road from Afioum Karahissar to Koniah, a dry and naked region, which extends as far as the Sangarius and Halys.’—Leake, Asia Minor , p. 65.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

When cold, shape into rolls or like a pear, roll lightly in beaten egg, then in bread crumbs, and fry in deep hot fat.
— from Public School Domestic Science by Adelaide Hoodless

When at heavy labor the men would even wear less clothing, as they would use the girdle about the body at the waist and fasten to it in front a roll of linen and pass this between the legs and fasten it to the girdle at the back.
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman

The women and children of the legal colony walked in them daily; the ladies attired in their newest fashions, and the children running with musical riot over lawns and paths.
— from A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

In no other realm of law and punishment has severity had more need of hypocrisy to justify itself than in the realm of wedlock.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

The heavy twilight is settling down over the river outside; lovers are pacing the walk as they return from their Sunday tramp.
— from An Ocean Tramp by William McFee

“The espaliers, and the standards, all Are thine; the range of lawn and park: The unnetted blackhearts ripen dark, All thine, against the garden wall.”
— from More Tales of the Birds by W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler

It was called to him the river of Ladak, as passing that city.
— from An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton

Rise of Lowestoft , and Parliamentary War with Yarmouth .
— from Lowestoft in olden times by Francis Davy Longe

Few men even recognise the reality of life as part of an eternal order, and, of the few who do so, still fewer seriously and persistently aim at fitting in their life as a solid part of that order.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods