Educated as we have been in the traditions of the finally triumphant Christian faith, warmed through and through as we are by its summer glow and autumn splendour, believing as we do in the adequacy of its spirit to satisfy the cravings of the human heart, how can we comprehend a moment in its growth when the divinised Antinous was not merely an object offensive to the moral sense, but also a parody dangerous to the pure form of Christ?
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

We cast behind fear, sin, and death; With Thee we seek the things above; Our inmost souls Thy spirit breathe, Of power, of calmness, and of love. HYMNS OF THE SPIRIT.
— from Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Wilder Tileston

Even in the absurdity of its substance the sincerity of the thing was appalling.
— from Rainy Week by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

The only fault I have to find with it is that the author of it seems to see calculation and artifice everywhere, and not to believe sufficiently in sincerity.
— from George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by René Doumic

Pedicels , rather short; the upper segment resembles, in the arrangement of its spines, the segments of the posterior cirri; the lower segment is longer than the upper, and has two tufts of fine spines, between the two rows of long spines.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

"Who then," asked Odin, in sorrowful tones, "shall avenge the death of Balder?"
— from Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas by E. M. (Ethel Mary) Wilmot-Buxton

Pg 115] Which means, of course, that England's position with regard to Canada or Australia is just England's position with regard to any other independent State; that she has no more "ownership" in Australia than she has in Argentina.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

The absence of inflection simplifies the syntax of adjectives.
— from A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

“So help me gracious!” said Mr. Isaacs, turning the articles over; “I suppose there 's some policemen just so wicked and soospicious to say I must know those garments are stolen—scooped off some hat-tree, the last winter, at one grab.”
— from Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine" by Heman White Chaplin