Connect the present new facts with similar ones they already know and so make the matter intelligible to them.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Then after dinner to the office, where we and some of the chief of the Trinity House met to examine the occasion of the loss of The Prince Royall, the master and mates being examined, which I took and keep, and so broke up, and I to my letters by the post, and so home and to supper with my mind at pretty good ease, being entered upon minding my business, and so to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The book is pervaded by a quaint humour which transfers, to the animal kingdom all sorts of human action.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

This playing with tweezers and knives and scissors is too little.' 'Learn first—teach later,' said Lurgan Sahib.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

O, if it prove, Tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Sin was responsible—so truly original was it—for what was painful and wrong even in the animal kingdom, and sin—such was the paradoxical apex of this inverted series of causes—sin was responsible for sin itself.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Never were there two better bred companions of a blue-stocking; for they were never of a different opinion from Eugenia, and they always kept a shade behind her in learning, so that she was in the right in every instance, and was never uneasy lest she should say something less clever than her companions.
— from Seven Legends by Gottfried Keller

This tolerance has not, as has been suggested, any connection with Protestantism, for such a distinction would exclude the greater part of Ireland, where, as it happens, the bird is as safe from persecution as in Britain, since the superstitious peasants firmly believe that anyone killing a "spiddog" will be punished by a lump growing on the palm of his hand.
— from Birds in the Calendar by Frederick G. (Frederick George) Aflalo

“I don’t believe any other two women in Bryne Haven could have gone through a scene like that and kept absolutely still.
— from The Search by Grace Livingston Hill

We were aware of this, and kept a sharp lookout, being prepared all the time to receive them.
— from The Adventures of Buffalo Bill by Buffalo Bill

A score of men had rushed up and surrounded Ted and Kit, all shouting and gesticulating at the same time.
— from Ted Strong's Motor Car Or, Fast and Furious by Edward C. Taylor

The sound waves which reach the ear are regular in time and kind and strength, and we call the sensation music.
— from General Science by Bertha May Clark

[21] with some trays and knocks about six of my carefully packed boxes on the floor.
— from Working With the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker

They carefully avoided village and road tracks, and kept a steady course eastward across the cultivated and uncultivated ground which seemed well known to them.
— from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 1 of 3) by Meadows Taylor

In the second place, it had been reported that the Jews of all the world were planning to strengthen themselves in and around Jerusalem with a view to re-establishing their ancient kingdom at some future time.
— from Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft Recollections of Oscar S. Straus ... by Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) Straus

E.C.B. Before the grass grew over me, I knew one good man through and through, And knew a soul and body joined Are stronger than the heavens are blue.
— from The Wild Knight and Other Poems by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton