When I think of our little evenings so free from constraint, of our gay country chats with your sisters, I feel myself seized with a bitter regret.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

They show that where the instinct of self-preservation, which manifests itself chiefly in the search for food, conflicts or appears to conflict with the instinct which conduces to the propagation of the species, the former instinct, as the primary and more fundamental, is capable of overmastering the latter.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The world has perhaps seen few faiths comparable to that.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

With this resolution I entered the wood, and, with all possible wariness and silence, Friday following close at my heels, I marched till I came to the skirts of the wood on the side which was next to them, only that one corner of the wood lay between me and them.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Next to it fountain water that riseth in the east, and runneth eastward, from a quick running spring, from flinty, chalky, gravelly grounds: and the longer a river runneth, it is commonly the purest, though many springs do yield the best water at their fountains.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A like carnage was made of the Tuscans in the Veientian territory; who were so far from compassionating the city which had now been its neighbour for nearly four hundred years, overpowered as it now was by a strange and unheard-of enemy, that at that very time they made incursions on the Roman territory; and laden with plunder, had it in contemplation to lay siege to Veii, the bulwark and last hope of the Roman race.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

SYN: Mode, method, style, form, fashion, carriage, behavior, deportment, habit, sort, kind.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The beasts were sent forth from “caveæ,” or “cages,” into the area of the Circus or Amphitheatre.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

But so far from condemning those who can, I deem it a writer's duty, and think it creditable to his heart, to feel and express a resentment proportioned to the grossness of the provocation, and the importance of the object.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But so far from clearing, the mist seemed to thicken, until it was as gray and wet as the Channel on a late autumn day.
— from On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles by T. C. (Thomas Charles) Bridges

There are here and there scattered p. 46 remains of hewn stone for facings, &c. some vestiges of a small round tower and a vaulted passage, and also a very limpid stream, now almost choked with ruins.
— from History of Llangollen and Its Vicinity Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles by W. T. (Wilfrid Tord) Simpson

Unemployment rate: 35% (1994) Budget: revenues: $NA expenditures: $NA Industries: sugar, rum, cigarettes, handicraft items Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity - capacity: NA kW Electricity - production: 1.09 billion kWh (1994) Electricity - consumption per capita: 1,670 kWh (1994) Agriculture - products: sugarcane, vanilla, tobacco, tropical fruits, vegetables, corn Exports: total value: $171.776 million (f.o.b., 1994) commodities: sugar 63%, rum and molasses 4%, perfume essences 2%, lobster 3%, (1993) partners: France, Mauritius, Bahrain, South Africa, Italy, Madagascar Imports: total value: $2.354 billion (c.i.f., 1994) commodities : manufactured goods, food, beverages, tobacco, machinery and transportation equipment, raw materials, and petroleum products partners: France, Mauritius, Bahrain, South Africa, Italy, Madagascar Debt - external: $NA Economic aid: recipient: substantial annual subsidies from France Currency: 1 French franc (F) = 100 centimes Exchange rates: French francs (F) per US$1 - 5.4169 (January 1997), 5.1155 (1996), 4.9915 (1995), 5.5520 (1994), 5.6632 (1993), 5.2938 (1992) Fiscal year: calendar year @Reunion:Communications Telephones: 191,647 (1993 est.)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[282] Having thus shown that Father Gerard’s argument, that the statement about Greenway was not produced at Garnet’s trial, cannot be maintained; that his argument drawn from the account of the arrest of Garnet and others is irrelevant, and that Salisbury’s letter to Favat, so far from contradicting the received story, goes a long way to confirm it, I proceed to ask why we are not to accept the report of A true and perfect relation , where Coke is represented as giving the substance of the confession of Bates, beginning with Catesby’s revelation of the plot to him, followed by his full confession to Greenway and Greenway’s answer, somewhat amplified indeed, as Coke’s manner was, but obviously founded on Bates’s confession of December 4, 1605.
— from What Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

What they were fitted for is best indicated by their teeth and feet, though other structural features frequently contribute valuable information.
— from Fossils: A Story of the Rocks and Their Record of Prehistoric Life by Harvey C. Markman

For at least ten miles the ground was covered everywhere with loose slab-shaped masses of igneous rock, varying in size from five cubic feet to five hundred, and lying one upon another in the greatest disorder.
— from Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia by George Kennan

Now there could be noticed a few roughly built huts of stone before which there were some nets drying on the ground, and some frightened fishermen came down to the water’s edge.
— from With the Flag in the Channel; or, The Adventures of Captain Gustavus Conyngham by James Barnes