After her return from Spain to Italy, Placidia experienced a new persecution in the bosom of her family.
— 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

At length I resolved to try a pitfall; so I dug several large pits in the earth, in places where I had observed the goats used to feed, and over those pits I placed hurdles of my own making too, with a great weight upon them; and several times I put ears of barley and dry rice without setting the trap; and I could easily perceive that the goats had gone in and eaten up the corn, for I could see the marks of their feet.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

I waited some time, in painful expectation, for his speaking: all that I had heard of his poverty occurring to me, I was upon the point of presenting him my purse; but the fear of mistaking or offending him deterred me.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Understanding has to be described in terms of its potential outcome, since the incandescent proc ess itself, as it exists in transit, will not suffer stable terms to define it.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Light is so diffuse, so subtle, that it permeates everywhere, and whatever little may remain, the retina of the eye will succeed in finding it.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

1 On the other hand, the technical (applied) social sciences, that is, politics, education, social service, and economics—so far as economics may be regarded as the science of business—are related to sociology in a different way.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

This principle may be very simply stated: Every stronger ethnic or social group strives to subjugate and make serviceable to its purposes every weaker element which exists or may come within the field of its influence.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Of course, we find many cases in which the arms of a wife figure upon the husband's shield, but a careful examination of them shows that in practically every case the reason is to be found in the fact that the wife was an heiress.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

When, a few pages back, I symbolized the 'ideational preparation' element in attention by a brain-cell played upon from within, I added 'by other brain-cells, or by some spiritual force,' without deciding which.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

She’s polite, always, dear old Helena—she says, here, ‘So pleasant is our journey in every way, and so kind have you gentlemen been, and so thoughtful in providing every luxury, that I can not think of a single thing I could ask for except some more marshmallows.
— from The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Emerson Hough

All the chairs were arranged informally, and hers was against the opening, so that it proved easy for Lord Bracondale to come up behind her unperceived.
— from Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story by Elinor Glyn

They did not at all wish to see the Imperial power established in Bechuanaland; so pressure was put upon Sir Hercules Robinson, and through him on Mr. Mackenzie, to such an extent indeed as to necessitate the resignation of the latter.
— from The Last Boer War by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

It was so sharp that, if placed edge downwards on a block of wood, it would cut through it of itself.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Cancer in the stomach is a real evil of the stomach, a defect, a deficiency, a failure, in the adaptation of the stomach to its proper end.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

At length I resolved to try a pitfall: so I dug several large pits in the earth, in places where I had observed the goats used to feed, and over those pits I placed hurdles, of my own making too, with a great weight upon them; and several times I put ears of barley and dry rice, without setting the trap; and I could easily perceive that the goats had gone in and eaten up the corn, for I could see the marks of their feet.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes by Daniel Defoe

Its scientific title is Presbytes entellus .
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood

The whim had occurred to him as he left the city and saw the first orange-trees laden with the blossoms whose perfume had for many months been holding the songstress there in patient expectation.
— from The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez