" "Very well," said Mr. Vincy, kicking in spite of resolutions, "I never professed to be anything but worldly; and, what's more, I don't see anybody else who is not worldly.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

28 The sky vault —See other references in number 1 , “How the World was Made;” number 3 , “ Kana′tĭ and Selu,” and number 7 , “The Journey to the Sunrise.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

However, a still greater part of this heap had a different destiny from what was intended; for, either because the ice was found not to keep so well as was expected, containing more air than usual, or for some other reason, it never got to market.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

To liken Best Society to a fraternity, with the avoidance of certain seemingly unimportant words as the sign of recognition, is not a fantastic simile.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Even the uniform county of Cambridge has 847 plants, and the little island of Anglesea 764, but a few ferns and a few introduced plants are included in these numbers, and the comparison in some other respects is not quite fair.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

But, as the whole system of representation is now, in this country, only a convenient handle for despotism, they need not complain, for they are as well represented as a numerous class of hard working mechanics, who pay for the support of royality when they can scarcely stop their children's mouths with bread.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

This was his design, but the envoys learned from his son what his device was, and when the question was put to them, they answered: "The settlement of Rome is not here, but in Latium, and the hill is in the country of the Romans, and the head was found on that hill."
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

All this show of resistance imposed not upon Flora, who was naturally of a suspicious temper.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Their seat of reason is not a concrete.
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith

—Of the tenth century Dr. Milner, who wrote his great history for the purpose of maintaining that there had been a succession of pious men since the founding of the church by Messiah, and to "trace the goodness of God taking care of his church in every age by his providence," [ 109 ] says: The famous annalist of the Roman Church, [ 110 ] whose partiality to the see of Rome is notorious, has, however, the candor to own that this
— from Outlines of Ecclesiastical History by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

For an hour I will hear you; and, though I strongly suspect the situation of reader is not the object of your visit, you shall have no reason to complain of my inattention.
— from The Mimic Stage A Series of Dramas, Comedies, Burlesques, and Farces for Public Exhibitions and Private Theatricals by George M. (George Melville) Baker

One of sons of Rameses II, named after Ashtoreth, 279 MER'CU-RY.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Lewis Spence

The extreme care in allowing the printer to have but a small amount of copy at a time is subject of ridicule in nearly all anti-"Mormon" books that treat of this period.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1 Period 1. History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

Here is the Synagogue of R. Isaac Napcha, who is buried in front of it.
— from The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela by Benjamin, of Tudela, active 12th century

In conclusion they maintain that their dependence on the see of Rome in no way interferes with the obedience due to their lawful sovereign, and they claim his protection in return.
— from Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690 by Richard Bagwell

But any one who had chanced to stand on the ridge above, half-way between the two parties, would have heard a medley somewhat of the following kind,— “Gentlemen, in addressing you on the subject of remains—” ”—I need hardly explain what we mean when we speak of beauty—” ”—Remains are things dug up out of the earth where they—” ”—make a great mistake in calling things people eat, beautiful.
— from Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed

He was followed by the famous theologian, Friedrich Schleiermacher, who taught that the seat of religion is not to be found in either the reason or will, but in feeling—“the feeling of absolute dependence upon God.”
— from The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden