For, having now my method by the end, Still as I pulled, it came; and so I penned It down: until it came at last to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

In that country society is plunged into difficulties from which all its efforts are insufficient to rescue it.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Hence, it is necessary, whenever the ascension of some inclined plane is declared impossible, to inquire whether the author of the declaration was himself there, or whether he had judged the thing at a distance.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

SYN: Smite, impel, give a blow to, stamp, impress, penetrate, insert, drive, lower, startle, surprise, collide, touch.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

But it does matter—and why should I pretend it doesn't, just because I've failed with it?
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

While SWEEDLE is putting it down on COKESON's table, the detective, WISTER, enters the outer office, and, finding no one there, comes to the inner doorway.
— from Justice by John Galsworthy

The next step in preparation is drying.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It must be remembered that all the rites are simple, and the chanting of the spells in public is done in a low voice, and quickly, without any specially effective vocal production.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

What does the thinker require?—imagination, inspiration, abstraction, spirituality, invention, presentiment, induction, dialectics, deduction, criticism, ability to collect materials, an impersonal mode of thinking, contemplation, comprehensiveness, and lastly, but not least, justice, and love for everything that exists—but each one of these means was at one time considered, in the history of the vita contemplativa , as a goal and final purpose, and they all secured for [pg 051] their inventors that perfect happiness which fills the human soul when its final purpose dawns upon it.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Now whether any other kind of solution is possible, I don't know.
— from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James

It is a masterpiece of historical composition, unequalled in any literature sacred or profane, in ancient or modern times, for its simplicity, its pathos, its dramatic power, and its sustained interest.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord

In the new castle, which was built fifty years ago in the Gothic style, I was much struck with the portrait of a female ancestor of the present earl, who must have been lovely and no less original; for she is painted in deep mourning, and yet she sits smiling at a window with this inscription in old English: “Since my husband’s love was but a jest, so is my mourning but a jest.”
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

Who spoke in parables, I dare not say; {
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11 by John Dryden

She is preparing in due time for (p. 202) the arrival of a little stranger, who will make you an uncle, and me (God help me!)
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

While events of so much importance were occurring in and around Boston, the more immediate theatre of the war, the second general congress were in session in Philadelphia, in deep consultation as to measures which the cause and exigencies of the country required.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

And I will be Your lardy-dardy——'" "Stop it, Pumpkin," interrupted Dick.
— from The Boy Land Boomer; Or, Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma by Edward Stratemeyer