“The case has certainly some points of interest,” said he, in his languid fashion.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

But every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

But of all nature's discrepancies, none Upon the whole is greater than the difference Beheld between the country and the town, Of which the latter merits every preference From those who have few resources of their own, And only think, or act, or feel, with reference To some small plan of interest or ambition— Both which are limited to no condition.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

And it is almost equally incredible that Roman historians, who furnish us with a particular account of Herod's character, should pass over in silence such a villainous and bloody deed.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

The lands which were kept constantly well manured and in good condition seldom exceeded a third or fourth part of the whole farm, and sometimes did not amount to a fifth or a sixth part of it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

For example, for the Christians of the seventeenth century, dogma had nothing disturbing for the reason; faith reconciled itself easily with science and philosophy, and the thinkers, such as Pascal, who really felt that there is something profoundly obscure in things, were so little in harmony with their age that they remained misunderstood by their contemporaries.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Reiches, p. 36—M.] Royalty was familiar to the Barbarians, and the submissive people of Italy was prepared to obey, without a murmur, the authority which he should condescend to exercise as the vicegerent of the emperor of the West.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterised will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offspring similarly characterised.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more pronounced, the grandfather raved.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

But the whole scene passed off in the breath of the last word spoken by his nephew; and he and the Spirit were again upon their travels.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

It was a sorry piece of illustration of the old-fashioned sort, lacking definition and finish, but effective notwithstanding; for it was evidently the reproduction, though a cheap and imperfect process, of a photograph.
— from The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

In fact, a sound "principle of interpretation" of legendary history, whether Burmese or Shan, is to cut down its figures by about one half.
— from Among the Burmans: A Record of Fifteen Years of Work and its Fruitage by Henry Park Cochrane

PART III HELENA BRETT'S CAREER CHAPTER XVIII ZOË Helena unfolded the slip, pasted on its blue half-sheet, and began to read it, thoroughly engrossed.
— from Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke

If it were a blue dragon he might adopt the same plan; or, if it were green, by staining his blue glass at the same time yellow, he could get every variety of shade from yellow to blue-green.
— from Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass by Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman) Day

As summer drew to its full, Vashti watched the splendid pageant of it in the sky and moor with unappreciative eyes.
— from Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

463-6 Mind, depends on brain-conditions, I. 4, 553; the mark of its presence, 8; difficulty of stating its connection with brain, 176; what psychology means by it, 183, 216 Mind-Stuff theory, Chapter VI: a postulate of evolution, I. 146, 176; some proofs of it, 148;
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James