For which cause men may well perceive, that the land and the sea be of round shape and form; for the part of the firmament sheweth in one country that sheweth not in another country
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Some grimy ruffians had thrown themselves with disdainful delight on the satin couches and the state beds: others rifled the cabinets with an idea that they must be full of money, and finding little in their way, had strewn their contents—papers and books and works of art over the floors of the apartments; sometimes a band who had escaped from below with booty came up to consummate their orgies in the magnificence of the dwelling rooms.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

And, gentlemen, I do not mean that superficial intelligence, vain ornament of idle minds, but rather that profound and balanced intelligence that applies itself above all else to useful objects, thus contributing to the good of all, to the common amelioration and to the support of the state, born of respect for law and the practice of duty—” “Ah! again!” said Rodolphe.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

“I wish I could drag the chair,” she broke out, recklessly.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

In the moral philosophy of prudence, for example, the sole business of reason is to bring about a union of all the ends, which are aimed at by our inclinations, into one ultimate end—that of happiness—and to show the agreement which should exist among the means of attaining that end.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Clemens Romanus, the second bishop of Rome, is said to have been of this family.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Comparison with our prior analysis of reflection If we compare this account of the methods of instruction with our own analysis of a complete operation of thinking, we are struck by obvious resemblances.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

This did not serve him; for, at such bantering or retort as suited the company, he was no match for Sir Mulberry.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Τ Trembling, the earth shall be opened, revealing chaos and hell.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

They have no regard for science or a scientific society, based on reason.
— from The Skull by Philip K. Dick

The thoroughfare was strewn with fallen lintels, broken marble screens, blocks of red sandstone, bricks, and in between them the fig and pipal nourished with the bebel-thorn, the ak, the mimosa, the insidious convolvulus twining everywhere.
— from The Bronze Bell by Louis Joseph Vance

The Mutation in some degree of it was extremely noxious to a true poet, our Spenser; and he was the more injudicious by lengthening his stanza in a language so barren of rhymes as ours, and in which several words, whose terminations are of similar sounds, are so rugged, uncouth, and unmusical.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

In the looks which Lawrence directed towards the Baron there seemed to be something both of reproach and of contempt.
— from The Datchet Diamonds by Richard Marsh

Li is also Chief Secretary of the Shan-hao-Tsung-Kuh , "The Supreme Board of Reorganisation" of the province, the members of which are the four highest provincial officials [Pg 153] next below the Governor ( Futai )—viz., the Treasurer ( Fantai ), Provincial Judge ( Niehtai ), the Salt Comptroller, and the Grain Intendant.
— from An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by George Ernest Morrison

The nuts were thick on the roadside, hanging heavy from swinging branches, and some of the men pulled them off as they passed, stayed for more, straggled, and sang bits of rough songs they ken over many of on Lochowside to this day.
— from The Lost Pibroch, and other Sheiling Stories by Neil Munro

But in another moment their approach was seen by one ragged sentinel, and with shrill cries of delight they were surrounded by a weird elfin band.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 714 September 1, 1877 by Various

The general usually remained in the Indian room at the tea hour, particularly if he liked the talk of the women who appeared, or if they were good to look at; otherwise he carried his syphon to the dining-room, where there was a bottle of the same brand of rye whisky which he kept back of "The Life of Peter the Great" in a book case in the Indian room.
— from The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson

This morning I lay long abed, and then to my office, where I read all the morning my Spanish book of Rome.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

But let me tell you, if you permit this chance to slip by—" "Oh, run along, do!"
— from Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet