He had the makings, her experienced eye could see, of a passionately persistent grabber.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Yet in many ways falling short of absolute precision people recognise that thought is not dynamic or, as they call it, not real.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Original I had come to Stratford on a poetical pilgrimage.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

[56] Frances Wright, from Scotland, in 1828 was the first woman to speak on a public platform in this country.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

[Clark, July 16, 1804] July 16 1804 Monday Set out verry early and proceeded on the Side of a Prarie passd the head of the Island opsd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

About this time there arrived in our town one Vicente de la Roca, the son of a poor peasant of the same town, the said Vicente having returned from service as a soldier in Italy and divers other parts.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I saw the strong man bowed down, and his knees to fail—his joints all seemed loosening—it was a figure to set off against Paul Preaching—the words he uttered were few, and sound—he was evidently resisting his will—keeping down his own word-wisdom with more mighty effort, than the world's orators strain for theirs.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The degree of definiteness may vary greatly: hunger requires only food in general, whereas the sight of a particular piece of food raises a desire which requires the eating of that piece of food.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

It is as advisable to destroy a desire by the weapon of indifference, no sooner it rises in the breast, as it is proper to root out the sprout of a poisonous plant, before it spreads itself on the ground.
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki

“Well, well,” interrupted Cap; “now this latter matter is settled to the satisfaction of all parties, perhaps you will tell us how it happened to be known that there were spies near us so lately.
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

The service included a processional hymn, music by an organist announced as "late of the Golden Temple Shway Dagon in Burma, and of St. Paul's Cathedral, London," an "Epistle" read by an American Buddhist, a "gospel of the day," read by the Abbess, several addresses by Japanese and Western Buddhists, and a sermon by the "bishop," who claims to be ninety-five years old, to be the son of a Persian prince, to have spent sixteen years at the feet of the late Dalai Lama in Tibet, to have numerous degrees in arts, medicine, science, and philosophy from Oxford, London, Paris, and Heidelberg, and to have been seventy-five years a monk of the yellow robe.
— from Buddhism in the Modern World by Kenneth J. (Kenneth James) Saunders

For this reason, at the present day, whenever there is a sale of any public property, especially that which is taken in war, proclamation is always made, "Porsena's goods for sale," so that the Romans have never forgotten the kindness which they received from him.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

He looked upon Julius as a nephew of his own discovering, and he felt something of a personal pride in all that was excellent in the young man.
— from The Squire of Sandal-Side: A Pastoral Romance by Amelia E. Barr

The notes of such conversations are now before us; and though it is, on the one hand, evident that Napoleon's expressions were arranged, generally speaking, on a premeditated plan, yet, on the other, it is equally certain, that his ardent temperament, when once engaged in discourse, led him to discover more of his own private thoughts than he would, on cool reflection, have suffered to escape him.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V. by Walter Scott

As the Roman Catholic canons of Strasburg hesitated to allow them, as being under the ban, the enjoyment of their prebends, they took violent possession of their benefices, and the support of a powerful Protestant party among the citizens soon gave them the preponderance in the chapter.
— from The Thirty Years War — Volume 01 by Friedrich Schiller