Sex, as submerged cause of crime, 322 ; as piety, 323 ; as ennui, 324 ; as conceit, 325 .
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

, says, "any sudden change of condition of whatever kind sets the nervous principle into action."
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

He felt in his soul a strange confusion of contradictory ideas, a sort of interior burning; that mocking, impertinent laugh kept ringing in his ears and seemed to say: “Why; you are just the same as the others, you fool!”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

And here Coroebus, flushed with success and spirit, cries: "O comrades, follow me where fortune points before us the path of safety, and shews her favour.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

There is surely a strange confusion of causes and conditions in all this.
— from Phaedo by Plato

Sentences are simple, compound , or complex .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

humita , f. ( Sp. A. ), small cake or croquette of grated sweet corn and sugar.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Presently I got into what seemed a small city or community of chiffoniers.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

But suddenly a storm came on, chromatic scales and diminished sevenths were heard in the orchestra, everyone ran off, again dragging one of their number away, and the curtain dropped.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But such a singular combination of conditions prevails there, as elsewhere in Russia, that an abundant harvest is often more disastrous than a scanty harvest.
— from Russian Rambles by Isabel Florence Hapgood

The Bull is generally represented in his natural colour, black , white , grey , pied , “ spangled ” (in Yorkshire,) and only rarely red and blue ; yet these two last colours may simply imply the natural red, brown, and other common hues, for newspapers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often contain advertisements about blue dogs; and whatever shade that was intended for, it may certainly with as much justice be applied to a bull as to a dog.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

These are perhaps the most striking examples, and are mostly self-evident to the naked eye, whilst in other cases, the changes are so delicate that the instrument must be used to give certainty; some again show changes of colour as the stone is revolved in the dichroscope, or the instrument revolved round the stone.
— from The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones by John Mastin

It is likely enough that this was done separately at first, and then the binder would have looked at a small heap of such gatherings wondering how best to keep them together, and it would soon occur to any constructive mind to knot the loose ends of the threads together, or else to supply a supplementary cord or cords laid at right angles to the back of the sections on which the projecting ends of the threads might be tied or sewn.
— from The Book: Its History and Development by Cyril Davenport

Wren built on the old site a stone church of considerable beauty, whose tall pinnacled tower had a singular grace of its own.
— from Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723. by Lucy Phillimore

The said public schools have hopelessly failed to meet the necessity of a national system of education, or to form the nucleus from which such a system could or can develop itself.
— from What Germany Thinks Or, The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith

Else why brought together in such a strange place and by such a singular chain of circumstances?
— from The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid