He watched the effect that each picture produced on such untutored beholders, and derived profit from their remarks, while they would as soon have thought of instructing Nature herself as him who seemed to rival her.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

They can be brought to relax only through especially powerful pressure or through the voluntary relaxation of one’s own constrictors.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The expelling power presumes, of course, coincidently, the reinstating power.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

And if our reason did not teach us this and much beyond; if we were such idiots as to close our eyes to that fine mode of training which rears up such men; should we not know that they who among their equals stab and pistol in the legislative halls, and in the counting-house, and on the marketplace, and in all the elsewhere peaceful pursuits of life, must be to their dependants, even though they were free servants, so many merciless and unrelenting tyrants?
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

The first of these is equivalent to the English present perfect, or perfect with have , and denotes that the action of the verb is complete at the time of speaking; as, I have finished my work .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Engaged for fifty-four years (he had been admitted a solicitor on the earliest day sanctioned by the law) in arranging mortgages, preserving investments at a dead level of high and safe interest, conducting negotiations on the principle of securing the utmost possible out of other people compatible with safety to his clients and himself, in calculations as to the exact pecuniary possibilities of all the relations of life, he had come at last to think purely in terms of money.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Anne devoted herself to English, Priscilla pored over classics, and Philippa pounded away at Mathematics.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

At times he leans on an oar and recalls the enigmatic personage, possessed of the same attribute, whom Ulysses has to follow, in the Odyssey .
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

See that every possible point of "up take" is stopped off.
— from The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities by Felix Riesenberg

The moral and social sides of the English system would seem to have crowded out to a great extent the intellectual side, which, with the essentially practical people of France, forms the whole structure.
— from France by Gordon Home

But all of these geographic forms are modified, even obliterated, by the ever prevailing process of gradation, which has given origin to nearly all of the minor and many of the major geographic forms of the earth.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 1, October, 1888 by Various

The lupanars at Pompeii were distinguished by a sign over the street door, representing the erect phallus, painted or carved, and having the words underneath, "Hie habitat félicitas.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

By a subsequent order, and in the very teeth of the express prohibitory provision of the statute under which the court was created, Judge Noyes further ordered that the receiver take possession of, and that there be delivered to him, all personal property of every sort and description on one of these claims and in any way appertaining thereto.
— from The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) by Lanier McKee