INVESTIGATIONS AND PROBLEMS 1 Isolation in Anthropogeography and Biology A systematic treatise upon isolation as a sociological concept remains to be written.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

If a plan calls for a press or a radio, somebody can requisition a Davidson Press or a Hallicrafter radio and get ready to use it.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Tagingting ang mandù sa sultan, The sultan’s command resounded.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Before Vronsky’s departure for the elections, Anna had reflected that the scenes constantly repeated between them each time he left home, might only make him cold to her instead of attaching him to her, and resolved to do all she could to control herself so as to bear the parting with composure.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Farside’s instrument payload was intended to study cosmic rays, earth’s magnetic field, certain forms of electromagnetic radiation in space, the presence of interplanetary gases, and the nature of meteoric dust.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

She had none to whose care She could recommend her, save to the Marquis de las Cisternas and her Sister Leonella.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Theresa wept, as she received the ring, but it was more from sympathy, than from any presentiment of evil; and before she could reply, Valancourt abruptly left the cottage.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

many a tale is told Of thy great glories in the days of old: Two thousand years have passed since thou didst see Cæsar ride forth to royal victory.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

The prudent and superstitious Chrysanthius refused to undertake a journey which showed itself, according to the rules of divination, with the most threatening and malignant aspect: but his companion, whose fanaticism was of a bolder cast, persisted in his interrogations, till he had extorted from the gods a seeming consent to his own wishes, and those of the emperor.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Perrin passed a considerable amount of time now in the Senior common room.
— from The Gods and Mr. Perrin: A Tragi-Comedy by Hugh Walpole

On thin hillside soils, Catawba requires training modelled after this method but on the heavier upland ones, with shorter pruning, it can be grown on the Chautauqua Arm plan.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

"She's sighted us," said Captain Raleigh to his first officer, who stood beside him.
— from The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

II One must recall the effect of such a gentle fantasy as his with some such emotion as one recalls a pleasant tale unexpectedly told when one feared a repetition of stale commonplaces, and I now feel a pang of retroactive self-reproach for not spending the whole evening after dinner in reading up the story of that most storied city where this Spanish castle received us.
— from Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells

[82] you're so confoundedly reckless sometimes, Lestrange, and—But I'll come."
— from The Flying Mercury by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

High up under a small cloud red with sunlight the eagle soared easily in the air.
— from The Trail of the Elk by Mikkjel Fønhus

There is no month in the year when some special plant does not bloom: the Coltsfoot there opens its fragrant flowers from December to February; the yellow-flowered Hellebore, and its cousin, the sacred Christmas Rose of Glastonbury, extend from January to March; and the Snowdrop and Primrose often come before the first of February.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

I had just time to notice that she now carried the weapon of the tribe over which she had so long ruled—a bow—and that across her fair shoulders was slung a quiver of arrows, when a sudden cry rose from the forest, and at the same moment Hassan exclaimed:— "Quick, sahibs!
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various