I wish to equalize all classes, putting rich and poor on Page 260 the same footing, to have community of goods, without distinction of persons.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

One day I crawled near to a country school house, and my curiosity being excited by the monotonous hum of the students within, I made bold to enter and creep along a crack between two boards until I reached the far end, where, in front of a hearth of glowing embers, sat the master at his desk.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Of the Tatler essays Addison contributed forty-two; thirty-six others were written in collaboration with Steele; while at least a hundred and eighty are the work of Steele alone.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

I cast away a crowne among them, and so to the ‘Change and among the Linnen Wholesale Drapers to enquire about Callicos, to see what can be done with them for the supplying our want of Bewpers for flaggs, and I think I shall do something therein to good purpose for the King.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Hitherto he had scarcely so much as shaken off the spell of the fresh and gracious influences that envelop a childhood in the country, like green leaves and grass.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Training, experience, association, can temporarily so polish him, improve him, exalt him that people will think he is a mule, but they will be mistaken.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

And yet we say not only, see how it shineth, which the eyes alone can perceive; but also, see how it soundeth, see how it smelleth, see how it tasteth, see how hard it is.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I answered that, excepting a certain matter of which her father knew, I had no chiefer aim than to convince her that I desired a place in her heart, and that she might be quite sure that I would not refuse her invitation.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Sorosoro , Sorog-sorog , Bait , Tag., Pam.; Karambauaya , Iloc.; Lengua de perro , Sp.-Fil. Uses .—The principal medicinal use of this plant in the Philippines is the introduction of the hot juice of its fleshy leaves into the external auditory canal in cases of otorrhœa or of simple earache, whatever its cause.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

This reservation of the enclosure at Cawnpore was but one sign of the overbearing arrogance of the foreigners, the Bilati—the men from over the sea.
— from The Broken Road by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Before leaving the neighbourhood of Tortosa Suchet ordered four [p. 242] battalions of Habert’s division to execute a coup de main upon the little fort of San Felipe de Balaguer, on the coast defile of the Col de Balaguer so often mentioned of late.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

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— from `Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet to Dr. Forel by `Abdu'l-Bahá

The experiments are carried on with the approval of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
— from Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Parts I and II Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volume 27 Number 3, Publication 1948, 1911 by Charles M. (Charles Matthews) Manly

In the same year, Lord Lake marched northward to Delhi, drove out the French, who had there exercised a certain influence over Shah Allum and bringing forth that poor, blind monarch (one of his Mahratta rebels had scooped out his eyes with a dagger!) placed him on the imperial musnud of India, under British protection!
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 6, December 1852 by Various

The history of Madeline's next few months made up for her a tale of anxious waitings for many mails; of pangs of unendurable tension over journals that, surrendered by the postman, would not open; that, opened at last, seemed nothing but advertisements; that, run to earth and convicted of telegrams, only yielded new food for anxiety.
— from A Likely Story by William De Morgan

The first is directly contrary to known facts in the geological history of the earth, and cannot be maintained by any one.
— from Facts and fancies in modern science Studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief by Dawson, John William, Sir

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— from Hints on Wolf and Coyote Trapping by Stanley Paul Young

[223] Proceeding along this coast, you pass a large number of rivers, and reach a place where there is one called Souricoua , by way of which Sieur Prevert went to explore a copper mine.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Samuel de Champlain