He dwelt on the world of novelty and amusement to be found among the innumerable islands of the Pacific, on the perfect security and freedom from all restraint to be enjoyed, but, more particularly, on the deliciousness of the climate, on the abundant means of good living, and on the voluptuous beauty of the women.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I gather some appalling facts from a recent Washington report.
— from Marriage à la mode by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Once more it was demolished during the insurrection of the Taepings; and although travellers—including some Americans—have within the past twenty years been fortunate enough to secure a few fragments as relics ( Fig. 72 ), nothing now remains to mark its site.
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

Often seen along farm fences and roads.
— from Common Trees of Pennsylvania by J. E. Aughenbaugh

If you can imagine an American several hundred years from now—one in which Point Loma had never been; several hundred years more unromantic than this one; an America fallen and grown haggard and toothless; with all impulse to progress and invention gone; with centrifugal tendencies always loosening the bond of union; advancing, and having steadily advanced, further from all religious sanctions, from anything she may retain of the atmosphere of mystery and folklore and the poetry of racial childhood; you may get a picture of the mental state of that China.
— from The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

I read how they could scale sheer precipices, pass fearlessly along narrow ledges which would scarce afford foothold for a rat, cast themselves from great heights unscathed, and track one marked for death in such a manner as to remain unseen not only by the victim but by others about him.
— from The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer

century in Hume in Rousseau of Reimarus in Lessing Kant's relation to See also Faith, Faith and Reason, Religion, Theology Delboeuf Delff, H. De Morgan, A. Denifle Des Bosses Descartes, René system of and occasionalism and Spinoza and Locke and Leibnitz See also Spinoza Desdouits Dessoir, M. Deter Determinism in Hobbes in Spinoza of the early associationalists of Hume in Leibnitz of Schleiermacher of Herbart of Schopenhauer of J.S. Mill of Jonathan Edwards See also Character, the Intelligible; Freedom of the Will Deussen, P. Deutinger, M. De Wette Dewey, J. Diderot, Denis Diels, H. Dieterich, K. Digby, Everard Dillman Dilthey, W. doctrine of, Dippe, A. Döring, A. Dorner, A. Doubt the Cartesian in Bayle Rousseau's reverential Drobisch, M.W. Droz Druskowitz, Helene Du Bois-Reymond, E Dühring, E. Dumont, E. Duncan, G.M. Durdik Ebbinghaus, H. Eberhard, J.A. Echtermeyer Eckhart Eclecticism, of the German Illumination of Schleiermacher of Cousin and his School Edfeldt, H. Education Locke on Rousseau on Edwards, Jonathan Ego, the certain knowledge of, in Campanella, and Descartes the individual, and the transcendental consciousness in Kant Fichte's doctrine of a complex of representations in Beneke Fortlage on Herbart's doctrine of the neo-Kantians on the individual, and the transcendental consciousness See also Soul Ellis Emerson, R.W. Empiricism founded by Bacon in Hobbes and rationalism of Locke of J.S. Mill of Opzoomer Liebmann on See also Experience, Sensationalism Encyclopedists, the Engel, J.J. Ennemoser Erasmus, Desiderius Erdmann, Benno works by Erdmann, J.E. works by philosophy of Erhardt, F. Eschenmayer, K.A. Ethelism in Crusius of Fichte of Schopenhauer in Hartmann See also Panthelism.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

"Or is my mute guest whose coming So unheralded befell From the border wilds of dreamland, Only whimsy Ariel, "Gleaning with the wind, in furrows Lonelier than dawn to reap, Dust and shadow and forgetting, Frost and reverie and sleep?
— from Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics by Bliss Carman

But the Athenians thought the war would proceed more prosperously, if they did not send Alcibiades free from all restraint, but tempered his heat with the caution of Nicias.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch

First one and then another of his assailants let go and drew back; and getting the wool out of his eyes, Rufus saw that the creatures were not bears, but four astonished dogs, standing a few feet away, regarding him with doubt and disgust.
— from When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens