It was a louring, mournful, still afternoon, when a religion of some sort seems a necessity to ordinary practical men, and not only a luxury of the emotional and leisured classes.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

They have their own literature and folklore, their own popular music and national songs.
— from Birdseye Views of Far Lands by James T. (James Thomas) Nichols

Adventurers to North America, on the contrary, found greater cold than they had left behind them in the same latitudes in Europe, desolate shores, little trace of precious metal, and natives whom it was dangerous to offend and impossible to enslave.
— from A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. V Canada—Part I, Historical by Lucas, Charles Prestwood, Sir

He wandered over miles and miles of ground and still came back to the old place; morning and noon had passed, and the day was on the wane, and still he rambled to and fro, and up and down, and round and round, and still lingered about the same spot.
— from Oliver Twist, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Charles Dickens

It is certainly true that our public men are not educated to the business of government; even our diplomatists are selected with very little reference to their experience in that department.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

Take one pill morning and night.
— from Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians by William K. (William King) David

A new charter was received in 1692, when the territories of Plymouth, Maine, and Nova Scotia were added to Massachusetts.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

The injection should be carried on very slowly, unless the patient is much exhausted, when it may be used more rapidly at first, until a little excitement is produced, after which it should not exceed two or three ounces per minute, and now is the time for the exhibition of astringents by the mouth, which will be retained; for in general the sickness entirely leaves during the operation.
— from The Cholera Gazette, Vol. I. No. 4. Wednesday, August 1st, 1832. by Various

They are quick in seizing the secret of a successful trade of paying manufacture, and not rarely better the instruction; a skill for which they are hated and despised by their own aristocracy in the markets, and branded as spoilers of every good thing as soon as it appears.
— from Zionism and Anti-Semitism by Max Simon Nordau

Thomas Watt, the son, thus deprived of support, was received by distant relations, and, for a time, applied himself to study, by which he was enabled, after the restoration of tranquillity, to establish himself at Greenock as a teacher of practical mathematics and navigation.
— from The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt by Dionysius Lardner