Those who hold that the edifice of physical science is really constructed of conclusions logically inferred from self-evident premises, may reasonably demand that any practical judgments claiming philosophic certainty should be based on an equally firm foundation.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

That year also Ole Heg, son of Even Heg and a brother of Colonel Hans C. Heg, [297] came and settled in Racine County, as also Knud Langeland from Samnanger, who in 1866 became the first editor of Skandinaven founded that year by John Anderson in Chicago.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

SYN: Insult, rudeness, contemptuousness, opprobrium, disgrace, slight, reproach, ignominy, disrespect, outrage, affront.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Without entering into details of the system of the apportionment of the harvest, of which the sociology is rather complex and would require a preliminary account of the Trobriand kinship system and kinship ideas, it may be said that about three quarters of a man’s crops go partly as tribute to the chief, partly as his due to his sister’s (or mother’s) husband and family.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Titian must have had such another magnificent head of hair for one of his models, for it exactly resembled, except in being somewhat of a fairer hue, his celebrated Magdalen, in the Pitti Palace, at Florence, where she is represented covered only with the rich profusion of her ringlets.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

definite, 1754 ; following secondary, in rel., causal, and concessive sentences, 1756 ; following secondary, in consecutive sentences, 1757 ; following secondary, in indirect question, 1760 ;
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

These two couples were married the following winter, and, having saved some money from their small earnings, they decided to buy a home somewhere in the Norwegian settlement in Rock County.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised—on account of their imperfect manners, I suppose.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Since 1867, however, when first as a student in Rutgers College at New Brunswick, N.J., I met and instructed those students from the far East, who, at risk of imprisonment and death had come to America for the culture of Christendom, I have been deeply interested in the study of the Japanese people and their thoughts.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

I therefore let go the cord, and leaving the hooks fixed to the ships, I resolutely cut with my knife the cables that fastened the anchors, receiving about two hundred shots in my face and hands; then I took up the knotted end of the cables, to which my hooks were tied, and with great ease drew fifty of the enemy’s largest men of war after me.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

He answered her with a smile and a remark, that, after all, there was no place like London and that he was getting very tired of rambling, when he turned round and saw Ida Raughton coming towards him on the arm of Lord Penlyn.
— from The Silent Shore: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

A change of sovereigns in Russia caused a change of policy, and Prussia was saved.
— from Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Albert Bushnell Hart

As I stood on the deck of the fine steamer, I really could not help wishing I was going home.
— from Wild Life in the Land of the Giants: A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables

Their contribution, when on the Scottish coast, figured out at a man per buss, but as they were for some inscrutable reason called upon to pay similar tribute on other parts of the coast, they cannot be said to have escaped any too lightly.
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

I think there are two things that must be admitted: first, that many of the worst evils of capitalism might survive under Communism; secondly, that the cure for these evils cannot be sudden, since it requires changes in the average mentality.
— from The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell

A calm, or rather torpor, followed, which lasted until his awakening spirit, in returning consciousness of life and love, made a last effort to dissolve in a farewell embrace upon the pure bosom of his virgin wife.
— from Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

The latter, however, survives in relative clauses in formal or elevated discourse, and still more in colloquial idiom.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

This basal segment, in all Cirripedes, is moulted with the eyes, the three other segments invariably remaining cemented to the surface of attachment.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin