But the other was in full career—he had talked this subject every day for five years, and had never yet let himself be stopped.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

If thought is a distinct piece of mental machinery, separate from observation, memory, imagination, and common-sense judgments of persons and things, then thought should be trained by special exercises designed for the purpose, as one might devise special exercises for developing the biceps muscles.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

a mass said either daily for a year after, or yearly on the anniversary of a person’s death, NED; anuell , S3.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

But in the absence of specific information, it was impossible for him to imagine that school and a schoolmaster would be something entirely different from the academy of Mr. Jacobs.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Margate packets were sailing every day, filled with men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Suppose England does fight?" "Why, we'll all have to turn in and help her," cried Jem gaily.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Who would include in the real "conduct of War" the whole litany of subsistence and administration, because it is admitted to stand in constant reciprocal action with the use of the troops, but is something essentially different from it?
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Thus, for example, in constructing an ideally perfect distribution of the means of happiness, it seems necessary to take into account the notion (as I called it) of Fitness, which, though often confounded with Desert, seems essentially distinct from it.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

[17] The frogs in the Caucasus make a sound entirely different from the Kvakan'yé of the Russian frogs.
— from The Invaders, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

By this method perfect lessons will be secured every day from every pupil.
— from Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator, with Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage by Catharine Esther Beecher

All feint attacks should employ dense firing lines.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

It is compounded of many more or less delightful ingredients: French predilections, Schumannesque mannerisms, some essence distilled from the grace and passion of Chopin, a dash of Russian sincerity—a number of fragrant and insidious aromas, in which the original element of individuality is smothered in the rose leaves and lavender winnowed from other people’s gardens.
— from The Russian Opera by Rosa Newmarch

Many customers came to the experimental shop with every type of idea imaginable; vacuum cleaners (The “Vacuna”), elevator signals, some early designs for Elmer Sperry’s gyrocompass were only a few.
— from Printing Telegraphy... A New Era Begins by Edward E. Kleinschmidt

Having marched to a certain point from which an attack was to be delivered, the pre-arranged signal having been given, the bagpipes would burst forth into music and with a wild cheer the whole Regiment would charge forward in wave after wave and the supposed enemy driven from their stronghold.
— from With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917 by Anonymous

470 STANDARD ELECTRICAL DICTIONARY. Fig.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane