Marry, my poor bones ache so that I—" "Prythee peace, Little John," quoth Robin.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

But this same spirit is found wherever one group has interests "of its own" which shut it out from full interaction with other groups, so that its prevailing purpose is the protection of what it has got, instead of reorganization and progress through wider relationships.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Nash refers to the same thing in Pierce Pennilesse , Wks.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

SYN: Tendency, inclination, proclivity, propensity, partiality, bias, liking.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

] Note 61 ( return ) [ Coliseum.... ob stultitiam Romanorum majori ex parte ad calcem deletum, says the indignant Poggius, (p. 17:) but his expression too strong for the present age, must be very tenderly applied to the xvth century.
— 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

it availed itself of the power of paradox, and of the need, manifested by old civilisation, for pepper and absurdity; it amazed and revolted at the same time; it provoked persecutions and ill-treatment.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This latter doubt is justified by the fact that one of the most regular symptoms among savage as well as among civilized peoples is the most sudden and excessive sensuality, which then with equal suddenness transforms into penitential paroxysms, world-renunciation, and will-renunciation, both symptoms perhaps explainable as disguised epilepsy?
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In intermingling, finely gradated tones, blond and silver, the immense panorama presented itself; squares, gardens, monuments, world-famous streets and world-famous buildings seen in the splendid clarity of the sun-penetrated atmosphere, purple-stained here and there by the shadows of detached high-sailing clouds.
— from Adrian Savage: A Novel by Lucas Malet

The newer organization has served to increase public participation in local government but has also increased the authority of the central government.
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe

We have seen that it possesses pressure and weight.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

Speculation that is purely philosophic may indeed turn round upon itself.
— from Mediaeval Socialism by Bede Jarrett

Who will be the next to follow him, and assist to reform and restore the stage to its proper place as a great educator of the people and exponent of art?
— from Letters of Peregrine Pickle by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

Acres of lawn, splashed with flaming red and yellow canna beds, swept from roadway to edge of sea: wide shell roads, smooth as planks, wound in great curves into the dark groves of cocoanut palms which surrounded the inclosure on three sides and extended back a thousand acres in symmetrical [Pg 54] rows of towering trunks which created endless shaded glades: turning slowly, he saw the immaculately policed prison inclosure showing through the steel grillwork which an intelligent mind had substituted for grim and stuffy prison walls.
— from Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson

In every direction German activity was organized and was placed under skilled professional leadership, while at the same time each of these special lines of work was subordinated to its particular place in a comprehensive scheme of national economy.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

Secondly, After a passionate personification is properly introduced, it ought to be confined strictly to its proper province, that of gratifying the passion; and no sentiment nor action ought to be exerted by the animated object, but what answers that purpose.
— from Elements of Criticism, Volume III. by Kames, Henry Home, Lord

In one sense they never came at all; for they existed on the surface of the chalk from the time it rose from the bottom of the sea to its present position.
— from Stonehenge, Today and Yesterday by Frank Stevens