Our idea of fatherhood implies that the child has rights and that he should love as well as be loved.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

[412] So long as we stick to verifiable psychology, we are forced to admit that differences of simple kind form an irreducible sort of relation between some of the elements of our experience, and forced to deny that differential discrimination
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Following it at a respectful distance, Riah passed into the bed-chamber, where a fire had been sometime lighted, and was burning briskly.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Societies are formed which regard drunkenness as the principal cause of the evils under which the State labors, and which solemnly bind themselves to give a constant example of temperance.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The first is, that the federal legislature will possess a part only of that supreme legislative authority which is vested completely in the British Parliament; and which, with a few exceptions, was exercised by the colonial assemblies and the Irish legislature.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Then the fires were all out, the ship full of water, and gradually breaking up, wriggling with every swell like a willow basket—the sea all round us full of the floating fragments of her sheeting, twisted and torn into a spongy condition.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

They had three children, two daughters and a son, little Arthur, who came between his sisters.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

So long as we have him safe, the danger cannot be greater.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

But just as we are aware of our digestive and circulatory processes in the sense of being aware of the animal spirits resulting from their adequate performance, so he was aware of his measuring and comparing, inasmuch as he was aware that the line A—B was longer than the line C—D, or that the point E was half an inch to the left of the point F. For so long as we are neither examining into ourselves, nor called upon to make a choice between two possible proceedings, nor forced to do or suffer something difficult or distressing, in fact so long as we are attending to whatever absorbs our attention and not to our processes of attending, those processes are replaced in our awareness by the very facts—for instance the proportions and relations of lines—resulting from their activity.
— from The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Vernon Lee

Only the Speaker sat like a wax statue of himself, and glanced neither to the right nor to the left.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Her skinny little arms wrap themselves this way then that reversely about her body!
— from A Book of Poems, Al Que Quiere! by William Carlos Williams

There would be no danger so long as we took care of the electric battery; nothing else would fire the canister.”
— from Stan Lynn: A Boy's Adventures in China by George Manville Fenn

They had many other ships, large and well equipped” (Flateyjarbok, ii.).
— from The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

I have demeaned myself prudently toward Love so long, and would never accede to his will; but now I am more than kindly disposed toward him.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

my daughter Tachot can speak of nothing else than of this beardless youth, who seems to have quite turned her little head with his sweet looks and words.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Volume 02 by Georg Ebers

The masonry of the other walls is rougher, with even less chinking, and some of them show later additions which did not follow the main lines.
— from The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff