“You have touched upon a subject, senor canon,” observed the curate here, “that has awakened an old enmity I have against the plays in vogue at the present day, quite as strong as that which I bear to the books of chivalry; for while the drama, according to Tully, should be the mirror of human life, the model of manners, and the image of the truth, those which are presented now-a-days are mirrors of nonsense, models of folly, and images of lewdness.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He had been far enough to the north to see the silver cascade of the Crystal Hills, and to look over the vast round of cloud and forest from the summit of New England's loftiest mountain.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The special character of the child has to be kept in mind both when it appears as witness and as accused.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

He was standing up straight enough now; dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his scalp.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Thus we find ourselves involved in a difficulty which did not present itself in the sphere of sensibility, that is to say, we cannot discover how the subjective conditions of thought can have objective validity, in other words, can become conditions of the possibility of all cognition of objects; for phenomena may certainly be given to us in intuition without any help from the functions of the understanding.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Then fetching from a cupboard a stoup of wine and two flagons, she placed them on the table, and said in a tone rather asserting a fact than asking a question, “Thou art Saxon, father—Deny it not,” she continued, observing that Cedric hastened not to reply; “the sounds of my native language are sweet to mine ears, though seldom heard save from the tongues of the wretched and degraded serfs on whom the proud Normans impose the meanest drudgery of this dwelling.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

After protracted negotiations, and in spite of the fact that Apraxin repeatedly refused to sign his discharge, he finally obtained it, and then withdrew to his home in Viborg, Finland, where he owned an estate, and where, no doubt on account of the Scandinavian character of the city, he preferred to stay.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Presumably when General Merritt went ashore on August 13th, from the despatch boat from which he had been watching the assault on Manila, to receive the surrender of the Spanish general, he followed the same custom of the country he had used on the occasion of his original disembarkation.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

A striking confirmation of this conjecture has been discovered.
— from Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna by Robert Burn

She carries with her part of the spoils and instruments of her sinful adornment, to devote it to His service; but before she can open the cruse, her heart opens, and the hot tears flow on His feet, inflicting an indignity where she had meant an honour.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

“A peculiar interest attaches to sketches of colonial life, and readers could not have a safer guide than the talented author of this work, who, by a residence of half a century, has practically grasped the habits, manners, and social conditions of the colonists he describes.
— from Eighteenth Century Waifs by John Ashton

It was evident that some crisis of tender confidence had passed between them; for the tears were hardly dry on Rose’s cheeks.
— from Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In the minutes of the second conference of the Church, held at Fayette, New York, on the 26th of September, 1830, this statement is made: "Number of the several members uniting to this Church, since the last conference, thirty-five: making in whole now belonging to this Church, sixty-two.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1 Period 1. History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

The Spanish cabildo, or town council, however, afforded an opportunity for the expression of the popular will and often proved intractable.
— from The Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors by William R. (William Robert) Shepherd

It was an important day for members of the senior class of the Clarion High School, for Miss Williams, the dramatics instructor, was going to hand out parts to read for the class play.
— from Janet Hardy in Hollywood by Ruthe S. Wheeler

Reliable authorities have estimated that 60 per cent or 12,000,000 of the school children of America are suffering from removable physical defects; that 93 per cent of the school children of the country have defective teeth; and that on the average the health of children who are not in attendance at school is better than that of those who are in school.
— from The Vitalized School by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson