Our perceptions of location and their value would be very different if we had to testify concerning relations of places, in court.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

And as the Right of possession, is called Dominion; so the Right of doing any Action, is called AUTHORITY.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Had he confined his observations to the police courts of New York, he might have emphasized that remark and found an explanation of the discovery that “the ratio of prisoners in cities is two and one-quarter times as great as in the country at large,” a computation that takes no account of the reformatories for juvenile delinquents, or the exhibit would have been still more striking.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

A Side Show Result of Playing in Church
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which are to be found there.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It must however be remembered that the religion of Plato is co-extensive with morality, and is that purified religion and mythology of which he speaks in the second book of the Republic.
— from Laws by Plato

The details of this part of the campaign, therefore, I shall omit to record; for nothing of importance or worth remembering occurred, partly in consequence of these instructions, and partly from circumstances; but there were a considerable number of skirmishes and petty engagements, in which the Roman commanders gained a high reputation for courage and prudence.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Jim’s father possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing the ease of mind of those whom an unerring Providence enables to live in mansions.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The poverty of the lower ranks of people in China far surpasses that of the most beggarly nations in Europe.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

" To these learned subtleties it may be answered, that the deed was evidently intended, not so much as an instrument effectively binding "the covenanting party," as a record whereby to justify a renewal of punishment, in case of contravention of any of the articles of treaty.
— from The Horse Shoe The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil, Showing How the Horse-Shoe Came to Be a Charm against Witchcraft by Edward G. Flight

On the other hand, there were 'rules of politeness in chess,' which it behoved all persons to follow:—'He who is lowest in rank is to spread the board, and pour out the men on it, and then wait patiently till his superior has made his choice; then he who is inferior may take his own men, and place all of them except the king, and when the senior in rank has placed his own king, he may also place his opposite to it.'
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 by Various

"It seems," explained the professor, "that in the early days there was a strange race of people, inhabiting Central America, with a somewhat high civilization, only traces of which remained when the Spaniards came.
— from Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders; Or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold by Victor Appleton

On this point J. S. Thrasher gives us some excellent deductions: "Supposing the population to be 715,000 (which I believe to be within the minimum number) the ratio of population in Cuba, in 1825, was 197 individuals to the square league, and, consequently, nearly twice less than that of San Domingo, and four times smaller than that of Jamaica.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

Roles of participants in CORE * Data flow *
— from Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992 by Library of Congress

With every step he took, he raised a cloud of fine, white dust, the invisible powder which, in summer, covers the roads of Provence; it clung to the edge of his cassock turning it grayish white.
— from Notre Coeur; or, A Woman's Pastime: A Novel by Guy de Maupassant

Sent postpaid to any address in the United States, Canada or Mexico upon receipt of price, in currency, express or postal money order or stamps.
— from Only One Love; or, Who Was the Heir by Charles Garvice

The importance of Dr. Simpson's application of anesthesia to the relief of pain in childbirth, and his open defiance of the religionists, are beyond the measure of words to evaluate.
— from An Atheist Manifesto by Joseph Lewis

On the 2d of June last Congress passed a joint resolution authorizing the President "to adopt such measures and use such force as in his judgment may be necessary and advisable" "for the purpose of the differences between the United States and the Republic of Paraguay, in connection with the attack on the United States steamer Water Witch and with other measures referred to" in his annual message, and on th
— from State of the Union Addresses by James Buchanan