Many young employees, just because they do not get quite as much salary as they think they should, deliberately throw away all of the other, larger, grander remuneration possible for them outside of their pay envelope, for the sake of "getting square" with their employer.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Arrived at last in his dull room to light his candles, and look round and up, and see the Roman pointing from the ceiling, there is no new significance in the Roman's hand to-night or in the flutter of the attendant groups to give him the late warning, "Don't come here!"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The troops thus assaulted were at once routed, partly from the suddenness of the conflict and partly through fear of the gates being opened to the Athenians, with whom they imagined that the attack had been concerted.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

thee, that it is not thy begetting a child—in case thou should'st be able—but the system of Love and Marriage thou goest upon, which I would set thee right in— There is at least, said Yorick, a great deal of reason and plain sense in captain Shandy's opinion of love; and 'tis amongst the ill-spent hours of my life, which I have to answer for, that I have read so many flourishing poets and rhetoricians in my time, from whom I never could extract so much—I wish, Yorick, said my father, you had read Plato; for there you would have learnt that there are two Loves—I know there were two Religions, replied Yorick, amongst the ancients—one—for the vulgar, and another for the learned;—but I think One Love might have served both of them very well—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

We desire only to indicate the remarkable preparation for the work before us, which he has had.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The Conformity of the Plan to Republican Principles For the Independent Journal.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

These responses proceed from tendencies already possessed by the individual.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The Roman patrician families, the Julii, Servilii, Tullii, and Quintii, are said to have migrated from Alba Longa, which, according to tradition, had given to Rome her first king.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

If we admit that the crude cults of the Australian tribes can help us to understand Christianity, for example, is that not supposing that this latter religion proceeds from the same mentality as the former, that it is made up of the same superstitions and rests upon the same errors?
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

We have seen the Church condemn with horror the relics of pagan feasts which clung round the same season of the year; then, as time went on, we have found the two elements, pagan and Christian, mingling in some degree, the pagan losing most of its serious meaning, and continuing mainly as ritual performed for the sake of use and wont or as a jovial tradition, the Christian becoming humanized, the skeleton of dogma clothed with warm flesh and blood.
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

I have seen enlarged cervical glands disappear without discharge when patients have taken up the outdoor life, and, above all, when they have gone out of the city and have lived the regime proper for those in whom tubercle bacilli are growing.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

31101 shall be laid on the revenues of all the real estate of the communes, such as houses, woods, and rural possessions, for the formation of a common fund of subsidy," a general sum with which to provide for "acquisitions, reconstructions or repairs of churches,... seminaries and parsonages."
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

All day we rested, preparing for the work of the morrow.
— from Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston

It was a fearful task; he stood before us at last, his hands scorched and blistered by the flames of the funeral-pyre, and by touching the burnt relics as he placed them in the receptacles prepared for the purpose.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2 by Percy Bysshe Shelley

They may receive promises from the mouth of the Lord.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

The Rev. Paul Ford turned a little wonderingly.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Things were made as [188] unpleasant as was reasonably possible for them in all kinds of niggling ways around Adrianople.
— from The Balkan Peninsula by Frank Fox

Oilmen pronounced Eureka the coming oil-town and farmers asked ridiculous prices for their lands.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

Their pay is 4 d. per night, or 2 s. a week—an amount little above the ordinary rent paid for the most miserable accommodation in a trampers’ lodging-house.
— from Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London by John Simon