Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

We find, for example, the Grosliers at Lyons, the De Thous and Seguiers in Paris, regardless of their bourgeois origin, becoming judicious and zealous patrons of poets, scholars, and artists.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

As has been said, proper service in properly run houses is never relaxed, whether dinner is for eighteen or for two alone.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The tense of the protasis is generally imperfect or pluperfect ( 2322 ): as, 424 Ariovistus respondit: sī ipse populō Rōmānō nōn praescrīberet, nōn oportēre sēsē ā populō Rōmānō impedīrī , 1, 36, 1, Ariovistus answered: if he did not dictate to the Roman nation, no more ought the Roman nation to interfere with him ( 2026 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

8): Si pili nati sunt qui non debuerunt tenuis acus ferrea, ad similitudinem spathae lata, in ignem coniicienda est; deinde candens, sublata, palpebra sic ut eius perniciosi pili in conspectum curantis veniant, sub ipsis pilorum radicibus ab angulo immittenda est, ut ea tertiam partem palpebrae transsuat; deinde iterum, tertioque usque ad alterum angulum; quo fit ut omnes pilorum radices adustae emoriantur.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

In the regulation of a family, in the education of children, understanding, in an unsophisticated sense, is particularly required: strength both of body and mind; yet the men who, by their writings, have most earnestly laboured to domesticate women, have endeavoured by arguments dictated by a gross appetite, that satiety had rendered fastidious, to weaken their bodies and cramp their minds.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

" So in part run the ancient creeds, and so the inspired Word declares.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

It is possible, no doubt, that its agents are really so far apart in nature and ideals that, like men and mosquitoes, they can stand in physical relations only, and if they meet can meet only to poison or to crush one another.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

From the time they had quitted the burning room to that moment, Waters had passed into his listless, abstracted condition, so helpless and feeble that he retained the grasp of M'liss's hand more through some instinctive prompting rather than the dictates of reason.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Salt is put round the body to preserve it, and an earthen pot is put over the head.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

These traditions, both of the Jewish and the Christian Church, seem to stand in pari ratione , the arguments in favour of the admissibility and effect of the one, applying with the same force, in favour of the other.
— from An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice With an Account of the Trial of Jesus by Simon Greenleaf

Setting intellectual property rights too high can actually stunt innovation.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

“‘A four-course shift, I presume,’ replied William, laughing; ‘that is, dancing, singing, music, and drawing.’
— from The Three Cutters by Frederick Marryat

Here, clothing itself in phrases and images of barbaric sacrifice, of slaughtered lambs and fountains of precious blood, a most repulsive and incomprehensible idiom to me, and expressing itself by shouts, clangour, trumpeting, gesticulations, and rhythmic pacings that stun and dismay my nerves, I find, the same object sought, release from self, and the same end, the end of identification with the immortal, successfully if perhaps rather insecurely achieved.
— from God, the Invisible King by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It is so comfortable to live in a place with good servants and commodious houses, and the society is particularly refined and agreeable, owing chiefly to the mixture of a strong French element in its otherwise humdrum ingredients.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

One small specimen I possess, remarkable for its brilliant appearance, was taken under the bark of a stunted black birch tree, over two thousand feet above the sea-level.
— from An Elementary Manual of New Zealand Entomology Being an Introduction to the Study of Our Native Insects by G. V. (George Vernon) Hudson

“The apology seems in place,” rumbled Mr. Champney, his voice vibrating thorough bass.
— from Port Argent: A Novel by Arthur Colton