But it does not follow that the Freemasons, who were a separate society of craftsmen, were in the same unhappy category; it is even probable, that the fact that they were not so, but that they were, in comparison with the unaccepted masons, educated men, may have been the reason of the distinction made between these two classes of workmen.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Then summoning up courage, I told him to thrust again gently.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

Est-ce que le cyberécrivain n'accorde pas trop de temps et d'énergie à stimuler une collaboration interactive avec le lecteur?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Wishing to set up columns in that temple, but not having rules for their symmetry, and being in search of some way by which they could render them fit to bear a load and also of a satisfactory beauty of appearance, they measured the imprint of a man's foot and compared this with his height.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

So delightsome these toys are at first, they could spend whole days and nights without sleep, even whole years alone in such contemplations, and fantastical meditations, which are like unto dreams, and they will hardly be drawn from them, or willingly interrupt, so pleasant their vain conceits are, that they hinder their ordinary tasks and necessary business, they cannot address themselves to them, or almost to any study or employment, these fantastical and bewitching thoughts so covertly, so feelingly, so urgently, so continually set upon, creep in, insinuate, possess, overcome, distract, and detain them, they cannot, I say, go about their more necessary business, stave off or extricate themselves, but are ever musing, melancholising, and carried along, as he (they say) that is led round about a heath with a Puck in the night, they run earnestly on in this labyrinth of anxious and solicitous melancholy meditations, and cannot well or willingly refrain, or easily leave off, winding and unwinding themselves, as so many clocks, and still pleasing their humours, until at last the scene is turned upon a sudden, by some bad object, and they being now habituated to such vain meditations and solitary places, can endure no company, can ruminate of nothing but harsh and distasteful subjects.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

With the exception of the doctor, whose gig was waiting for him, the rest of the company went home snugly, under cover, in close carriages.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The subject under consideration illustrates this course of events very clearly.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are some unhappy circumstances in which we can only keep our liberty at others' expense, and where the citizen can be perfectly free only when the slave is most a slave.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Kusug kaáyung muwarakwarak si Mama ug madúgay ming mupaúlì, Mother scolds us continuously if we come home late.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Through {177} this eternal process of self-differentiation and outgoing activity, the inner spiritual universe comes into being—as an intermediate Nature or world, between the ineffable Abyss of God on the one hand, and our world of material, visible things on the other hand."
— from Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones

The second unity consists in the Holy Spirit of the Head communicated to the soul and body of the faithful people, both being restored by that grace of which truth and charity, unity and sanctity, are the tokens, the full virtue being planted in the cross of the Head, and from the cross diffusing itself to His Body.
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

The Captain was the soul of gallantry to all of the fair sex, but the Princess and Deborah were in such utter contrast in his mind that the discovery of the unexpected personality in his arms wrought a spasmodic revulsion in his feeling.
— from Deborah: A tale of the times of Judas Maccabaeus by James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow

I should have used a stronger expression for that riot, when in scandalous undress, carrying in front a steak on a spit, the whole company [Pg 81] sings low songs such as 'Megálljon Kend' 31 and 'Hetes, nyloczas,' 32 and in this guise makes scandalous processions from castle to cloister."
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai

We have thus exhausted in a short and general review the subject of the natural origin of criminality.—To sum up, crime is a social phenomenon, due to the interaction of anthropological, telluric, and social factors.
— from The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 by Enrico Ferri

Similarly he was found guilty on the specification under Charge I, which was wrongfully using provoking words to a staff noncommissioned officer.
— from Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

It took rather a hard pull to get up the other side, but the difficulty was soon mastered, the bullocks following Breezy, as his master led the way, and in half an hour after starting they were at last well on the road to Kopfontein, whose rocky mound stood up clearly in the morning light.
— from Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by George Manville Fenn