They fenced it off by stringent rules, demanding a three years’ probation and enjoining various 86 purificatory rites [245] .
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

A similar reason doubtless accounts for the familiar fact that we remember our own theories, our own discoveries, combinations, inventions, in short whatever 'ideas' originate in our own brain, a thousand times better than exactly similar things which are communicated to us from without.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The Horse-Raddish hath its first leaves, that rise before Winter, about a foot and a half long, very much cut in or torn on the edges into many parts, of a dark green colour, with a great rib in the middle; after these have been up a while, others follow, which are greater, rougher, broader and longer, whole and not divided at first, but only somewhat rougher dented about the edges; the stalks when it bears flowers (which is seldom) is great, rising up with some few lesser leaves thereon, to three or four feet high, spreading at the top man
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Away, thou soul, (let me pick thee out singly, reader dear, and talk in perfect freedom, negligently, confidentially,) for one day and night at least, returning to the naked source-life of us all—to the breast of the great silent savage all-acceptive Mother.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

In mumbling of the game they dare not bite: Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

His recollection, indeed, of what had happened after he had told her was still rather dim and hazy; there had been a terrific clap of thunder, she had said she did not hate him; then her mother and Merivale came in.
— from The Angel of Pain by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

She ran downstairs, amid the shouts of men and women, to give her orders.
— from The Magician by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

North Port O Morgan, William, Pleasant Hill O Morgan, Ira, Ormond O Moriarty, James, Kinkora O Morin, B., St. Isidore, Dorchester Q Morin, A., St. Roch des Aulnais Q Morin, P., Bienville Q Morris, John H. Warwick O Morris, David, Ste.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1872 by Canada. Post Office Department

By a prompt stroke he put an end to the constitution which had prevailed till then, abrogated the Convention and the Council of Five Hundred, and gave the French republic a new constitution, putting at the head of the government three consuls, Sieyes, Roger Ducos, and himself.
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Gosse’s Description.—Falling Stones.—A Stone rolling down a Precipice.—The Polar Bear and the Walrus.—Imitation.—The Polar Bear and the Seal.—The Esquimaux Hunter “Seal-talking.”—Enticing
— from Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature by J. G. (John George) Wood

He who desires to understand the harmonious and beautiful proportions of Freemasonry must read, study, reflect, digest, and discriminate.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

She recalled distinctly, amidst the turmoil, how she had always kept in mind that a girl who had once let a man, like that dreadful little wretch, whose name she could not take into her consciousness, suppose that she could care for him, could not let a man like Ludlow care for her.
— from The Coast of Bohemia by William Dean Howells

He spoke rather defiantly, as though challenging public opinion to condemn his new dubious activity.
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett

Strangeness? Romance? Did any of you ever read—if you have not you should read—Archbishop Whately’s Historic Doubts about the Emperor Napoleon the First ?
— from Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Charles Kingsley