Beauty is something spiritual and, being such, it rests not on the material constitution of each existence taken apart, but on their conspiring ideally together, so that each furthers the other's endeavour.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

= KEY: Correct \adj.\. SYN: true, exact, faultless, accurate, proper, decorous, right.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

A personality of smallness and egotism and petty underhandedness seemed to emanate from the letters themselves.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Most handbooks refer to a certain rule which is supposed to exist for the differencing of a coat to denote illegitimacy when the coat is that of the mother and not the father, the supposed method being to depict the arms under a surcoat, the result being much the same as if the whole of the arms appeared in exaggerated flaunches, the remainder of the shield being left vacant except for the tincture of the surcoat.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

“Without those, in themselves by no means lovely, qualities which set man in social opposition to man, so that each finds his selfish claims resisted by the selfishness of all the others, men would have lived [p. 50] on in an Arcadian shepherd life, in perfect harmony, contentment, and mutual love; but all their talents would forever have remained hidden and undeveloped.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

When the clock struck three, Elizabeth felt that she must go; and very unwillingly said so.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

We try to make the observation such that every factor entering into it, together with the mode and the amount of its operation, may be open to recognition.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less subject to envy; for men think that they earn their honors hardly, and pity them sometimes, and pity ever healeth envy.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

“I felt sorrier than ever for the poor man.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

If Frédérique should have a lover, that would lessen the attachment that she seemed to entertain for me; doubtless that was the reason why it pained me to think that she should allow anyone to make love to her.
— from Frédérique, vol. 2 by Paul de Kock

[101] and strengthen the entire fabric.
— from Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies From The Thousand and One Nights by Edward William Lane

And surely we ought to be satisfied with this; for he who sees the end from the beginning must know much better than we what is for our good.
— from A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Harvey Newcomb

During the first two miles our path lay chiefly through the forest: we however passed in that distance three houses; at the last house, which was on the borders of a lake, we stopped to enquire for the residence of my friend.
— from Gleanings by the Way by John A. (John Alonzo) Clark

There was a large number of boys, but they could be of little use in a hand-to-hand encounter, and Ceolwulf turned it over in his mind whether it would not be better to leave them outside under Wulfstan; they had shown such talents for annoying the enemy without themselves receiving any damage, and they were so perfectly at home in the intricate paths and rough tracks, over the hills and through the woods, that he thought it would be wisest to send them outside, they might thus escape the destruction which was sure to await those in the stockade, and might create a useful diversion by stoning the enemy from the cover of the woods, for in running they could outstrip most men, and knew the land well.
— from Cædwalla; or, The Saxons in the Isle of Wight: A Tale by Frank Cadogan Cowper

He put on all sail to escape from her, but her pace was faster than ours, and she gained on us every minute.
— from Abbé Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper Mérimée

So the eagle from his mountain watch-tower looks down and surveys with serene eye the tempest and the storm forming beneath his feet.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

She seemed, having shaken off the stupor of intoxication, to be striving to escape from her executioner.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days. Junior Deluxe Edition by Jules Verne

The legitimated son, too, Enrique Felipe de Guzman, who had kept close to the King as a gentleman-in-waiting, found that the atmosphere at Court, and especially amongst Aragonese, was antagonistic to him; and he also was dismissed to join his father.
— from The Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

The cry, or signal, as the young scout hastened to interpret the sound, seemed to emanate from a spot not forty feet away, and with the skill of the experienced trailer, he glided toward it.
— from Little Oskaloo; or, The White Whirlwind by T. C. (Thomas Chalmers) Harbaugh