The most that can be said is that in certain cases, at least, the animal seems to occupy a slightly more elevated place in the hierarchy of sacred things.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In general, the medicinal value of coffee may be said to be directly attributable to its caffein content, although its antiseptic properties are dependent upon the volatile aromatic constituents.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Accordingly, I took as many biscuits as I thought I could carry, and also some tobacco, tea, and a few matches.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Thus Goldsmith followed Johnson and opposed the romanticists; but his Deserted Village is romantic in spirit, though its classic couplets are almost as mechanical as Pope's.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

This is called cording a thread.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

on whose divinity he is ready to lay hands; or his offering to the dead Patroclus 75 of his own hair 32 , which had been previously dedicated to the other river-god Spercheius, and that he actually performed this vow; or that he dragged Hector round the tomb of Patroclus 33 , and slaughtered the captives at the pyre 34 ; of all this I cannot believe that he was guilty, any more than I can C allow our citizens to believe that he, the wise Cheiron’s pupil, the son of a goddess and of Peleus who was the gentlest of men and third in descent from Zeus, was so disordered in his wits as to be at one time the slave of two seemingly inconsistent passions, meanness, not untainted by avarice, combined with overweening contempt of gods and men.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

At other times in spite of maternal endearments or threats, I had with a child’s caprice been accustomed to indulge my feelings of sorrow or anger by crying as much as I felt inclined; but on this occasion there was an intonation of such extreme terror in my mother’s voice when she enjoined me to silence, that I ceased crying as soon as her command was given.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

A man who is capable of thinking can express himself at all times in clear, comprehensible, and unambiguous words.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

TRUE: Why, there is comfort come at length, sir.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Then it ceased: ceased and began again in a weird chant that soared and hung and fell and blended with the rain: “Tout suffocant Et bleme quand Sonne l'heure Je me souviens Des jours anciens Et je pleure....” “Who the devil is there in Ramilly County,” muttered Amory aloud, “who would deliver Verlaine in an extemporaneous tune to a soaking haystack?”
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

The East India Dock was always so popular, owing to its convenience, compactness, and management, that, whenever there was room, and arrangements would admit, ships entered it.
— from Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial by Various

Without a hoof on it, it has a value in proportion to its carrying capacity, and Priest and I want these boys to secure it.
— from Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

Then followed all the indescribable color changes and combinations, which varied momentarily until they faded into the dusky hues of a moonlit night.
— from In Unfamiliar England A Record of a Seven Thousand Mile Tour by Motor of the Unfrequented Nooks and Corners, and the Shrines of Especial Interest, in England; With Incursions into Scotland and Ireland. by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

But before we can even approach such a plan to prevent war by reducing the economic incentive, we must frankly recognise that in certain circumstances a nation may have a direct economic interest in war.
— from American World Policies by Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl

Upon examination after death, the body was found “much attenuated; the left thigh one third greater in circumference than the right; abdomen tympanitic, not tense; parietes very thin; the lower part of the ileum, caput coli, and arch of the colon contain air; a streak of inflammation is delineated along the anterior surface of the colon from the centre of the arch, throughout the descending portion of this intestine, to the left iliac region; it is marked by a transverse band of capillary vessels, minutely injected in the thickened peritoneum, along the whole of this course.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

Then I can come and see you man to man like, Miss, in the daylight….
— from Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

These officers were taken into close custody, and informed that the resolution announced to General Howe should be strictly enforced.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

In chemistry molecules of opposite polarity unite, and this is called chemical affinity; molecules of like polarity will not unite, and this is called chemical repulsion.
— from The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Geo. W. (George Woodward) Warder

Though the inland tradesmen do not, and need not, acquaint themselves with the manner of foreign exchanges, yet there is a great deal of business done by exchange among ourselves, and at home, and in which our inland trade is chiefly concerned; and as this is the reason why I speak so much, and repeat it so often to the tradesman for whose instruction I am writing, that he should maintain the credit of his bills, so it may not be amiss to give the tradesman some directions concerning such bills.
— from The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe