And Pollyanna, convinced anew of her aunt's “kindness,” blinked off the tears and looked eagerly about her.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

There are only three things in the world that women do not understand; and they are Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The charm is, to a large extent, a simple phenomenon of transfer.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The various degrees of difference between the languages of the same stock would have to be expressed by groups subordinate to groups; but the proper or even the only possible arrangement would still be genealogical; and this would be strictly natural, as it would connect together all languages, extinct and recent, by the closest affinities, and would give the filiation and origin of each tongue.
— 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

But others find it more convenient to cultivate those departments which promise a highway whereon there shall be no clashes of vital opinion, no chance of the charge of "intolerance"; in short they transfer all their contemplative powers to the active life, even as it is written in the Protocols— "To divert Gentile thought and observation, interest must be deflected to industry and commerce."
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Alas, he who knows the heart finds out how poor, helpless, pretentious, and blundering even the best and deepest love is—he finds that it rather DESTROYS than saves!—It is possible that under the holy fable and travesty of the life of Jesus there is hidden one of the most painful cases of the martyrdom of KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LOVE: the martyrdom of the most innocent and most craving heart, that never had enough of any human love, that DEMANDED love, that demanded inexorably and frantically to be loved and nothing else, with terrible outbursts against those who refused him their love; the story of a poor soul insatiated and insatiable in love, that had to invent hell to send thither those who WOULD NOT love him—and that at last, enlightened about human love, had to invent a God who is entire love, entire CAPACITY for love—who takes pity on human love, because it is so paltry, so ignorant!
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Hereupon an explanation followed; the brother and sister recognized each other, amid joyful tears and loving embraces, and assisted by her friends and kinsmen, Iphigenia escaped with them from a country where she had spent so many unhappy days, and witnessed so many scenes of horror and anguish.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Take of Diatragacanthum frigidum, half an ounce, pulp of preserved Quinces an ounce, the inside of the seeds of Bastard Saffron half an ounce, Ginger two drams, Diacrydium beaten by itself three drams, Turbith six drams, Manna two ounces, Honey of Roses solutive, Sugar Candy, of each an ounce, Hermodactils half an ounce, Sugar ten ounces and an half, make of them a liquid electuary according to art.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Possibly this may have been so to a limited extent, and in post-Vedic times, but to me the accent of Hindu serpent-mythology appears to be emphatically in the homage paid to it as the guardian of the treasures.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

"Brave" he certainly was, and "Old Salt," to a sailor, means something more than a long experience at sea.
— from Brave Old Salt; or, Life on the Quarter Deck: A Story of the Great Rebellion by Oliver Optic

'May we smoke here, Bobbie?' asked one of them, a little embarrassed at seeing Alec, but anxious to carry things off pleasantly.
— from The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

The qualities constituting physical beauty, on the other hand, are, to a large extent at least, perceived by our physical senses: there is indeed a point where the mere nerve sensations no longer serve to explain æsthetical likings or dislikings, where, on the other hand, the addition of mere logical considerations of fitness seem insufficient to account for phenomena, where, in short, we are forced to have recourse to a very confused and at present untenable idea of inherited habits and love of proportion, but it nevertheless remains evident that physical beauty is a thing perceived through the physical senses and concretely extant in the world around us.
— from Belcaro; Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee

He was carried to the Bastille and submitted to a long examination, after which he was allowed to remain fourteen months in prison.
— from Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries by C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel) Thompson

These three translations having become scarce by the middle of last century, and being defective in many of the most essential qualities of a translation, the Doctor Battista Bianchi, Professor of Latin at Sienna, undertook an improved translation, in which he attempted to imitate the brevity of Sallust, though he did not, like some of his predecessors, insert obsolete Italian words, corresponding to the antique Latin expressions adopted by his original.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop

And again a few days later, when the festivities were ended and the ducal family were enjoying a little rest before the party broke up, he writes— "Whenever Lodovico Sforza is wanted, he is always to be found in the company of his wife, of the Marchesana, of Don Alfonso and Madonna Anna, with whom he is never tired of talking and laughing, exactly as if he were a youth of their own age."
— from Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Cartwright

“Take things a little easier, Adnah; let some one help us out.
— from Annie Laurie and Azalea by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

He remembered that Trescorre had urged him to take a larger escort, and that he had refused on the ground that any military display might imply a doubt of his people.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

With these properly solved, finance and regulation, to a large extent at least, will solve themselves.
— from Our Railroads To-Morrow by Edward Hungerford