In Guatemala, for example, says a close observer, not any .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Without such an unavoidable necessity, incest is a horrid crime; but whether in such a case of necessity, as they apprehended this to be, according to Josephus, it was any such crime, I am not satisfied.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The twang of a banjo became audible as they drew nearer, and they saw a couple of negroes, from some neighboring plantation, “breaking down” a juba in approved style, amid the “hi, hi’s” of the spectators.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

All education forms character, mental and moral, but formation consists in the selection and coordination of native activities so that they may utilize the subject matter of the social environment.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Kyoto in many respects is the most lovely thing the world has to show, such a combination of nature and art as one dreams of.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

] Note 74 ( return ) [ Compare the suspicions and complaints of Nicetas (p. 359—362) with the blunt charges of Baldwin of Flanders, (Gesta Innocent III.
— 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

King Eirik, also, was in no great favour with him; and the word went about that King Jatmund would set another chief over Northumberland.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

“His being so sure of succeeding was wrong,” said she, “and certainly ought not to have appeared; but consider how much it must increase his disappointment!”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

If He had willed to overcome the obstinacy of the most hardened, He could have done so by revealing Himself so manifestly to them that they could not have doubted of the truth of His essence; as it will appear at the last day, with such thunders and such a convulsion of nature, that the dead will rise again, and the blindest will see Him.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

And certainly the aggrieved suitor had reason to grumble, seeing that, now that bribe-takers had ceased to exist, and Directors had uniformly become men of honour and integrity, secretaries and clerks ought not with impunity to have continued their thievish ways.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

As we approached this, we saw a crowd of natives, men and women, seated on the paved margin of the tank along one side and between the columns listening to a priest who 279 was preaching with much earnestness.
— from India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane

Of course I know you had to take in the shows and cabarets of New York.
— from The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North by William MacLeod Raine

Gas costing 3 s. 2 d. per 1000 cubic feet showed a cost of nearly 1 s. per hour for every 1000 candle power of light.
— from The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook by H. Percy (Henry Percy) Boulnois

Ignoring this latter point, let us ask ourselves whether the quality designated by the word "mental" does, as a matter of observation, actually belong to objects of sense, such as colours or noises.
— from Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

But these slight defects might easily be removed, while such a combination of natural beauty can rarely be met with.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

"Yes—yes, tell him so; it was far the most my fault; he is such a child; such a child of nature, I mean.
— from Strong Hearts by George Washington Cable

Tell your father, though, that we may stand a chance of nabbing them yet.
— from Harper's Young People, November 29, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Remarks upon the part played by the horse in history at about this time are to be found also in Lodge's “Illustrations of British History,” where, in the third volume, we read that on 6th April 1605 there arrived at Greenwich Palace “a dozen gallant mares, all with foal, four horses, and eleven stallions, all coursers of Naples.”
— from The Horse in History by Basil Tozer