When she had for some years governed this monastery, wholly intent upon establishing a rule of life, it happened that she also undertook either to build or to set in order a monastery in the place called Streanaeshalch, and this work which was laid upon her she industriously performed; for she put this monastery under the same rule of monastic life as the former; and taught there the strict observance of justice, piety, chastity, and other virtues, and particularly of peace and charity; so that, after the example of the primitive Church, no one there was rich, and none poor, for they had all things common, and none had any private property.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

He made extraordinary progress with his studies, and, ultimately eclipsing his teachers, he opened a school of scholastic philosophy near Paris, which attracted crowds of students from the neighbouring city.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

After watching the victim's struggling approach with a calm smile and unabashed eye, the foul-hearted little villain lifted his staff and struck Ilbrahim on the mouth so forcibly that the blood issued in a stream.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The people stared at us every where, and we stared at them.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Should colleges be classified by national law and supervision, and uniform entrance and graduation requirements maintained by each college in a particular class?
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

In the first place, you want to call me to account for my insistence upon distinguishing in sleep, in sickness and in similar situations between libido and interest, sexual instincts and ego instincts, since throughout the observations can be explained by assuming a single and uniform energy, which, freely mobile, occupies now the object, now the ego, and enters into the services of one or the other of these impulses.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

She seemed small and uncanny, elvish, in her nightdress.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

[C] ἄρξομαι δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν προγόνων πρῶτον τῶν ἐμαυτοῦ. (Then if this was your conduct of old, and from that day to this there is kept alive some small spark as it were of the virtue of your ancestors, it is natural that you should pay attention not to the magnitude merely of any performance, nor whether a man has travelled over the earth with incredible speed and unwearied energy as though he had flown through the air; but that you should rather consider whether one has accomplished this feat by just means, and then if he seems to act with justice, you will perhaps all praise him both in public and private; but if he have slighted justice he will naturally be scorned by you.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

This psychological process is of significance in criminal trials, inasmuch as many actionable cases depend upon sudden and unexpected events, where retrospective illumination may frequently come in.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Mr. Beecher came in and took his seat upon the platform, a strange and unusual expression on his face, indicating the intensity of the feeling within.
— from Sixty years with Plymouth Church by Stephen Morrell Griswold

The German War Party's plans, so soon to materialize, would have been sadly thrown out of gear by such an untimely event, and von Tirpitz is not the man to brook interference with his programmes.
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

Since then telegraphy has attained such a completeness, and the telegraph wire has reached such a universal extension, that there seems little left for even the boldest wish to desire.
— from Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone A Biographical Sketch by Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips) Thompson

Here and there you may see an emaciated man; but, out of a body of five hundred, some are usually emaciated and unhealthy.
— from The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Rajah of Sarawak James

Just before the mating has taken place, the flocks of these birds are said to execute sudden and unaccountable evolutions, as if guided by some single commanding spirit; now hovering uncertain, then dashing impulsive, now veering in an instant, and at last taking a long, steady flight towards some distant point.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

Most readers are aware [57] that the flaming towers which give such an unearthly effect at night to what is called the Black Country, round Wolverhampton, are iron furnaces, and that the projecting circular galleries which surround their tops are contrived for pouring down their capacious throats, by apertures placed at equal distances, an equable and regular supply of the materials with which they are fed.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

Feelings and thoughts act upon each other in the astral-world and in the thought (or mental) world, just as objects of sense act upon each other in the physical world.
— from The Way of Initiation; or, How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds by Rudolf Steiner