Now, besides the vulgarity of such expressions, there is much in slang that is objectionable in a moral point of view.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

(Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?)
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The passage of Kiyawa near Tuma is mentioned in several types of magical exorcisms, when the evil influence is being banished.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The part played by the greased cartridges in the Indian Mutiny is sufficient to prove this statement.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

"Then, being much troubled in mind, I said to my men, 'My friends, it is not right that one or two of us alone should know the prophecies that Circe has made me, I will therefore tell you about them, so that whether we live or die we may do so with our eyes open.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

By failing to ask what he means by discipline, many a teacher is misled into supposing that he is developing [Pg 64] mental force and efficiency by methods which in fact restrict and deaden intellectual activity, and which tend to create mechanical routine, or mental passivity and servility.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

“All this is most interesting,” said the prince, very softly, “if it really was so—that is, I mean—” he hastened to correct himself.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As well as I know it now I knew then in my inmost soul that I should summon Mrs. Effie before matters went farther.
— from Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

This impatience made it singular that the very next word she uttered should be: "My dearest son, I wish to heaven you'd marry her.
— from The Tragic Muse by Henry James

A poor task no doubt it was, but it involved a journey up the beautiful Tyne valley, and a glimpse of the old abbey town; it meant, in short, the change from a life of drudgery to one of adventure, and that morning I felt that I had recovered my lost youth.
— from Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid

“This is my idea,” said the Major, “of going to sea in a yacht; it would be perfect if we were tied up at the dock.”
— from The Golden House by Charles Dudley Warner

Cicero always considered the citizens of Arpinum as under his particular protection and patronage; and it is pleasant to find, that its modern inhabitants still testify, in various ways, due veneration for their illustrious townsman.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop

[215] continue to increase much in size, the little craft was doomed.
— from The Boy Chums Cruising in Florida Waters or, The Perils and Dangers of the Fishing Fleet by Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) Ely

“Kent, when we were there in Mayberry it seemed to me that my aunt and you were almost anxious that I should marry him.
— from Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

The editor of the State Trials is mistaken in supposing that the quotation from Caesar's speech was made in the debate of the 13th.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

In these two infinitely more is said than in the nameless innumerable predicates; for they express something definite—in them I have something.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach