But the woman says “yes” and “no,” even when only a small portion of one or the other asserts a truth behind which she can hide herself, and this is a matter to keep in mind in the courtroom.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

She places one of her hands quite motionless on his body, and even though the man should press it between two members of his body, she does not remove it for a long time.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

But as the smooth passage of our thought along our resembling perceptions makes us ascribe to them an identity, we can never without reluctance yield up that opinion.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

In the Seneca form, as here given, ge ( geʻ ) is a locative, and ono ( oñnoñ ) a tribal suffix qualifying the root of the word, the whole name signifying “people of, or at, Seoqgwa” (cf. Oyadageono, etc., i. e., Cherokee, p. 186).
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The entrance door was a huge one made of massive, curiously shaped panels of oak studded with big iron nails and bound with great iron bars.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

We pity the sufferings of childhood; we should pity ourselves; our worst sorrows are of our own making.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But the best evidence is afforded by parts or organs of an important and uniform nature occasionally varying so as to acquire, in some degree, the character of the same part or organ in an allied species.
— 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

But those that love to hold it at a higher rate, and prize it according to its value, for their own greater profit do the very same which is told us of the recreation of the three fatal sister Parcae, or of the nocturnal exercise of the noble Circe, or yet of the excuse which Penelope made to her fond wooing youngsters and effeminate courtiers during the long absence of her husband Ulysses.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

And the presence of strange peoples, one of the recognized features of these places, is also noticeable along the Zone.
— from The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Louis Christian Mullgardt

It was after he had gone that I saw poking out of the pocket of the overcoat which had been hung on the hook, the butt of a pistol.
— from The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace

At the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, the operation is very successfully performed on old vines as follows: Preparatory to grafting, the earth is removed from around the stock to a depth of two or three inches.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

You are still there for some purpose or other; you are a weight in the balance, although a very light one.
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1 by Honoré de Balzac

Chukei tolongan , or tax of assistance, levied when the lord had need of funds for some special purpose or on a special occasion such as a wedding—and these are numerous amongst polygamists—a birth, [78] the building of a house or of a vessel.
— from British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir

We didn't meet with a single prize on our way to the Cape, but had another merry time with our Patagonian friends.
— from Barney Blake, the Boy Privateer; or, The Cruise of the Queer Fish by Herrick Johnstone

But I thought little enough of such matters—I was better employed, with my books, my work, my music, and whenever our own dear invalids did not demand my special care, in paying visits to the sick people on our estates.
— from From Memory's Shrine: The Reminscences of Carmen Sylva by Carmen Sylva

Thus Morgan in his "Ancient Society" points out over and over again that the civilised state rests upon territorial and property marks and qualifications, and not upon a personal basis as did the ancient gens , or the tribe; and that the civilised government correspondingly takes on quite a different character and function from the [Pg 53] simple organisation of the gens.
— from Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays by Edward Carpenter

It consists at present of three, but originally of four, pairs of "oak couples" (Scottice kipples ) planted like solid trees in the ground at equal intervals, and gently sloped inwards till they meet or are "coupled" at the ridge, this coupling being managed not by rusty iron, but by great solid pins of oak.
— from The Story of John G. Paton; Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by John Gibson Paton