In the use of his sources three tendencies are especially noticeable: the motivation of borrowed incidents; the adjusting of action on a moral basis: the reworking of his own favorite themes and incidents.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

In this case, granting the personal acquaintances to be equal, the chances would be also equal that an equal number of personal rencounters would be made.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

he said, in such an accent of bitter sadness it thrilled along every nerve I had; “you don’t love me, then?
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Thus one person has often the custody of the prisoner's body, while another sees the sentence against him executed, as the eleven did at Athens: for which reason it is prudent to separate these offices, and to give great attention thereunto as equally necessary with anything we have already mentioned; for it will certainly happen that men of character will decline accepting this office, and worthless persons cannot properly be entrusted with it, as having themselves rather an occasion for a guard than being qualified to guard others.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Nature seems to abhor equalities, never making two things alike or the same proportion if she can help it.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

In the first case the two sexual elements which go to form the embryo are perfect; in the second case they are either not at all developed, or are imperfectly developed.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

I hoped to return in a week at farthest, and I agreed with her that on the fifth night from that, and every night afterwards, she would wait for me at six o’clock near the bottom of Great Titchfield Street, which had been our customary haven, as it were, of rendezvous, to prevent our missing each other in the great Mediterranean of Oxford Street.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

The first half of the nineteenth century saw the New Englanders engaged in a systematic attempt at self-culture, to an extent never before witnessed in America and rarely elsewhere.
— from History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

In short, these are effects not to be imagined nor comprehended by such as have not experience of them, and which make me infinitely honour and admire the answer of that young soldier to Cyrus, by whom being asked how
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Impersonals (the subject is it without reference to a specific object): rain, snow, hail, dawn, lighten, thunder, etc. ADVERBS of Manner: slowly, rapidly, silently, noisily, abruptly, loudly, strongly, weakly, moderately, well, ill, better, worse, otherwise, differently, thus, so, lightly, heavily, etc., etc. of Place: here, there, elsewhere, up, down, forward, backward, upstairs, downstairs, etc., etc. of Time: always, ever, never, again, still, yesterday, tomorrow,today, now, occasionally, before, afterwards, soon, etc., etc. of Quantity: much, little, enough, nothing, more, less, least, mo
— from The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori

Did not get sight of him till the next morning, when he came out into the sun, stood on the top rail of a fence, warmed himself, and whistled his spirited, forceful tune, his solid little body swelling and throbbing at every note, especially when he rose to the tonic.
— from Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 1 [January, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life by Various

It was for them an ever novel joy to go out arm in arm, in the sunshine, in the open streets, without hiding themselves, in the face of everybody, both alone.
— from Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean by Victor Hugo

But this sleeping time had come to an end now; this helpless pollywog stage was finished for Nuova.
— from Nuova; or, The New Bee by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg

D. Cranstoun, Esq., informed us that his weekly expenses during slavery, on the estate which he managed, were, on an average, 45 l. ; the average expenses now do not exceed 20 l. Extract of a letter from Hon.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

When the inhabitants of that realm became aware of their king's careful search after evildoers with the aim of destining them to be victims at his sacrifice—for they heard the most frightful royal proclamation day after day and saw the king's servants, who were appointed to look out for wicked people and to seize them, appearing every now and then everywhere—they abandoned their attachment to bad conduct, and grew intent on strictly observing the moral precepts and self-control.
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura

With malice toward none, with charity towards all, envying no nation its treasures, content to enjoy in peace what God had given us, America folded its hands in prayer.
— from American World Policies by Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl