The boy was overheard to tell a friend, "It Pg 18 fairly beat the guv'nor;" but his father is known to have remarked to a City acquaintance that he solved the thing in his head in a minute.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Persons whose interests have been enlarged and intelligence trained by dealing with things and facts in active occupations having a purpose (whether in play or work) will be those most likely to escape the alt
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy—those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

My mother, weary, exhausted by her exertions and heated by ironing, watched these lengthy proceedings, and said: “Mind now, Spiridon, you will have to answer for it to God if you spoil the cloth!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"However, Rick, Esther, and you too, Ada, for I don't know that even your little purse is safe from his inexperience—I must have a promise all round that nothing of this sort shall ever be done any more.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

But the wider the context—that is to say, the more varied the stimuli and responses coordinated—the more the ability acquired is available for the effective performance of other acts; not, strictly speaking, because there is any "transfer," but because the wide range of factors employed in the specific act is equivalent to a broad range of activity, to a flexible, instead of to a narrow and rigid, coordination.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Democratic poets will always appear trivial and frigid if they seek to invest gods, demons, or angels, with corporeal forms, and if they attempt to draw them down from heaven to dispute the supremacy of earth.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

But when I began to inquire what sacrifice the city intended to offer to celebrate the annual festival in honour of the god, the priest answered, “I have brought with me from my own house a goose as an offering to the god, but the city this time has made no preparations.” )
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember that nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life,—recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

And the Lord said, ‘I will destroy man, whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air: for it repenteth me that I have made them .’” —Genesis, ch.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Then, among cultivated trees and shrubs, those that are nearly related to our wild kinds, including some that are found in foreign woodlands that have about the same latitude and climate as our own.
— from Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by E. T. (Ernest Thomas) Cook

The light from a barred window struck full into his eyes and for a moment he did not see that another figure, in the same dingy stripes, sat on the edge of the narrow bunk, looking at him out of small, red-rimmed eyes.
— from The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

He had a trading post down on the Platte, a little way east of the forks, and the Indians used to come in there sometimes, but there was other posts, and he didn't get as much trade as he thought he ought to; so he hired me to travel around to the camps, and stop with the Indians and trade with them, and fetch in what furs I got to [Pg 52] the post.
— from Jack Among the Indians; Or, A Boy's Summer on the Buffalo Plains by George Bird Grinnell

Or, again, it was, he says [762] , because the name of Τύχη , Fortune or Chance, was not yet in use, that men referred to the gods what they did not know how to account for in any other manner.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

"Breathing carefully, anxiously, as though respiration were a function which required all the attention for its performance," is cited as a not unusual state in children, and as one calling for care in all the things enumerated above.
— from Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale

The act of admission passed to the state the usual endowment of five hundred thousand acres for its public uses, 17 with twelve salt springs and six sections adjoining each; ninety thousand acres for the endowment of an agricultural college, and seventy-two sections for the use and support of a state university.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society (Vol. I, No. 2) by Oregon Historical Society

th and finishing in the XVI th , excepting that portion which forms the base of the tower of Saint-Romain, and which is much more ancient.
— from Rouen, Its History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers by Théodore Licquet

A total abstainer from intoxicating drinks, he was persistently described as a drunkard, drunken upon the field of battle.
— from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox