A short prompt (often just a character, like a "!"), which tells the expert user where he is in the system right now.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

It is, on the contrary, an instructive specimen of the loose and irregular manner in which supposed principles of justice grow up.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

To cite one out of many examples; in some part of Java, the peasants used to go out into the fields at night for sexual intercourse when the rice was about to blossom in order to stimulate the rice to fruitfulness through their example [101] .
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

On Hélène’s name day, a small party of just their own people—as his wife said—met for supper at Prince Vasíli’s.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

At the same time, the latter in no way acted as a clog upon his melancholy; wherefore, just as Madame was at her ease with Bazarov, so the young man was at his with Katia, and, after a short period of joint converse, the two couples would usually diverge.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Must not that philosophic invention, so audacious and so fatal, which was then absolutely new to Europe, the invention of "free will," of the absolute spontaneity of man in good and evil, simply have been made for the specific purpose of justifying the idea, that the interest of [Pg 79] the gods in humanity and human virtue was inexhaustible ?
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The principle of Taste is the subjective principle of Judgement in general
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

And that is what I mean when I say that in all states there is the same principle of justice, which is the interest of the government; and as the government must be supposed to have power, the only reasonable conclusion is, that everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
— from The Republic by Plato

705 The prophecies are the strongest proof of Jesus Christ.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

And she answered: “It annoys me not to have a single piece of jewelry, not a single ornament, nothing to put on.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Of geese, the grey goose and the blue and the white wavies are very abundant in the spring and autumn on the shore of Hudson bay—and especially towards the southern parts of James bay.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers

Draw in thy thoughts ... and set thy intent and full purpose, as if thou wouldst not seek nor find any thing but onely the grace and spiritual presence of Jesus.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

For what cause was not the same priest of Jupiter permitted, either to touch an ivie tree, or to passe thorow a way covered over head with a vine growing to a tree, and spreading her branches from it ?
— from Plutarch's Romane Questions With dissertations on Italian cults, myths, taboos, man-worship, aryan marriage, sympathetic magic and the eating of beans by Plutarch

They cultivate with the hoe small patches of jungle clearings.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

My duty to your lordship makes me do a severe piece of justice.
— from The Comedies of William Congreve: Volume 1 [of 2] by William Congreve

I read over again with emotion some passages of “Jocelyn.”
— from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel

What a strange perversity of judgment prejudice casts over the mind.
— from Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by Anthony Norris Groves

p 227) that the ogams originated in Pembroke, ``where there was a very ancieni Teutonic settlement, possibly of Jutes, who as is indicated by the evidence of runic inscriptions fonnd in Kent, seem to have been the only Teutonic people of southern Britain who were acquainted with the Gothic Futhoro.''
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg