But if they want to give these words meanings which only a spiritualistic Christian could attach to them, it seems useless to discuss an opinion so contrary to the principles of the historical method.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

He then sat down between us again, and said, when the second course came in, Let Abraham come in and wait.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

We sail a dangerous sea of seething currents, cross and under-currents, vortices—all so dark, untried—and whither shall we turn?
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

She can cast down that pretty Face in Confusion, while you rage with Jealousy, and storm at her Perfidiousness; she can wipe her Eyes, tremble and look frighted, till you think yourself a Brute for your Rage, own yourself an Offender, beg Pardon, and make her new Presents.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The powers which united have lost their specific, centripetal character.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Esos bancos prestan también sobre ciertos cultivos, y suelen adelantar dinero con hipoteca a industriales para el fomento de sus negocios.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Such confidence could not safely be reposed in people of a very mean or low condition.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

"If I," said he, "under such circumstances could encounter and overcome this task, is there, can there be in the whole world, a youth to find any excuse for its non-performance?" Humphrey Davy had but a slender chance to acquire great scientific knowledge, yet he had true mettle in him, and he made even old pans, kettles, and bottles contribute to his success, as he experimented and studied in the attic of the apothecary-store where he worked.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

That judgement is, that surely can comprise The world in precepts, most happy and most wise.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

If it was nothing more than the harmless effort of a couple of women to earn some Congressional coin, it might be overlooked, and these two women with fatherly tenderness, told to go back home.
— from The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore

She called Cyril, and her voice was so imperative that he quitted his sheltering tree and ran to where she stood on the edge of the grove.
— from An Australian Lassie by Lilian Turner

He spoke of each as the very worst nation on the earth, because of the special crime charged.
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge

They drove home through the darkness, the hired man so tired with three days and nights of bumping in a slat-seated colonist car that he would have fallen out of the buckboard had Riles not held him in.
— from The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead

They are simple ciliated cysts containing a concretionary mass, and are situated in the gelatine of the proboscis, irregularly disposed of at any level, from the lips to the beginning of the stomach, and in any radius.
— from The Cubomedusæ by Franklin Story Conant

The solid centre could hold any force which faced it, while the mobile flanks, Hutton upon the left and Hamilton upon the right, could lap round and pin it, as Cronje was pinned at Paardeberg.
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle

Avuta questa cedula, chiamò il Cremonello un suo uomo di casa, e gli disse: Guarda chi sono costoro, che su questa lista sono scritti, e fa che gli ritrovi tutti, siano dove si vogliano in questa isola, e farai loro intendere che se
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman