He is the patron of the Republic of Ragusa in Dalmatia, and in France of wool-carders.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The ripeness of Religion is doubtless to be looked for in this field of individuality, and is a result that no organization or church can ever achieve.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

In other writings I have tried to show how vital to any aspiring Nationality must ever be its autochthonic song, and how for a really great people there can be no complete and glorious Name, short of emerging out of and even rais'd on such born poetic expression, coming from its own soil and soul, its area, spread, idiosyncrasies, and (like showers of rain, originally rising impalpably, distill'd from land and sea,) duly returning there again.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

There is a great difference between the depth of expression so gained and richness or realism in details.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

of the distress among the poor, said a recent official report, is due to drunkenness.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

And though the adventures that befell me there are not by any means matters of enjoyment, but rather of regret, I do not regret them, simply because I have seen it.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

] Note 39 ( return ) [ See the reign of Robert, in Ducange, (Hist. de C. P. l. ii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The manner in which the tubers are arranged on the so-called roots or rhizomes is different; thus, in the gurken-kartoffeln they form a pyramid with the apex downwards, and in another variety they bury themselves deep in the ground.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

Now, how this can consist either with sound reason or religion, I do not see.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

It had, indeed, turned the heads of that portion of the nation unaccustomed to think for itself, and unable to form a rational opinion regarding its demerits.
— from Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence

The wretched victims of that vile system might die unseen and unpitied in some hideous back slum, without touching one chord of remorse or regret in Dr. Merrick's nature.
— from The Woman Who Did by Grant Allen

Another result of righteousness is declared to be "wealth and riches" (ver. 3), which, again, must be taken as applying more fully to the Old Testament system of Providence than to that of the New.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 3 Psalms XC.-CL. by Alexander Maclaren

He was not remarkable for readiness of reply in debate; but when he had time to prepare his ideas and language he was almost always sure to make an impression on his hearers.”
— from A Sketch of the Life and Times of Judge Haliburton by R. G. (Robert Grant) Haliburton

It is quite true that Fr. rouler , our roll , is derived from Lat. rota ‘wheel’ + a diminutive ending -ul- , but the word would never have gained its immense popularity, extending as it does through English, Dutch, German and the Scandinavian languages, if the sound had not been eminently suggestive of the sense, so suggestive that it seems to us now the natural expression for that idea, and we have difficulty in realizing that the word has not existed from the very dawn of speech.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen