Their snowy muslins all splashed and draggled; the ostrich feather shrunk shamefully to the backbone of a feather: all caps are ruined; innermost pasteboard molten into its original pap: Beauty no longer swims decorated in her garniture, like Love-goddess hidden-revealed in her Paphian clouds, but struggles in disastrous imprisonment in it, for 'the shape was noticeable;' and now only sympathetic interjections, titterings, teeheeings, and resolute good-humour will avail.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Hunting harmless animals, vivisection, the execution of back-breaking tricks, ballets, and numerous other things, will seem to us shocking, inconceivable, disgusting, if we are not habituated to them.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Proof.—The third kind of knowledge proceeds from an adequate idea of certain attributes of God to an adequate knowledge of the essence of things (see its definition II.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Sounding is done in this way.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Thus, as the appearance by which our hypothetical system is defined is moved nearer and nearer to the object, the hypothetical system of appearances defined by its means embodies less and less of the effect of the medium.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

ESCENA II SCENE II (Doña Inés) (Doña Inés)
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Each side is divided into portions according to the number of maniples, and the centurions stand by and superintend the work of each maniple; while two of the Tribunes superintend the construction of the whole 487 side and see that it is adequate.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

sorry I did it now, Mr. Howard,
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Says Burns: “There was a lad was born in Kyle, But whatna day o’ whatna style, I doubt it’s hardly worth the while To be sae nice wi’ Robin.”
— from The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America by Hudson Stuck

"How shall I do it?"
— from Many Kingdoms by Elizabeth Garver Jordan

But what in the world should I do if I had to sit in a chair all my days?
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

When Louis rose, he said: "I do indeed hear something in the ground, but it is only a confused murmur.
— from Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War by Kirk Munroe

This, although it is self-incurred, may be called natural and innate, and consists (not in the sensibility merely, but) in a freely chosen reversal of the moral order of our maxims, in virtue of which the maxim of duty or morality is subordinated to that of well-being or self-love instead of being placed above it, and that which should be the supreme condition of all satisfaction is degraded into a mere means thereto.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

Demomeles, ii. Demosthenes (General), i.; ii. Dercylus, i. Diodorus, i. Dion, ii. Diondas, ii. Dionysia, i.; ii. Dionysius (General), i.; ii. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, i. Dionysus, ii. Diopeithes (General), ii. (of Sphettus?), ii. Diophantus, i.; ii. Diotimus, ii. Disunion of the Hellenes, i.; ii. Dium, i. Dodona, oracle of, ii. Dolopes, ii.
— from The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 by Demosthenes

For after all, she is doing it all out of her immense love for you....
— from The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

The school is divided into two sections—the mechanical and the chemical; but as I personally know better the former, and as it is also the more important with reference to the question before us, so I shall limit my remarks to the education given in the mechanical section.
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Various

At once seize it, draw it out a little while an assistant passes a ligature round it, and ties it up tight with a double knot.
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

Hebdomadæ promulgauit præfatum detestandæ legis suæ librum, plenum perfidiæ et erroris, et à subditis tempore vitæ suæ seruari coegit, qui et vsque hodie in tanto æuo, et tot populis non sine iusto Dei iudicio colitur et seruatur, quamuis miserabile, et miserandum videtur, quod tot animæ in illo perduntur.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt