Hence come difficulties and embarrassments which are avoided by substituting for this criterium the one we now employ.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Reputations of that sort, even when they're true, are always based upon other people's ideas"; he would reflect that this legend—even if it were authentic—was something external to Odette, was not inherent in her like a mischievous and ineradicable personality; that the creature who might have been led astray was a woman with frank eyes, a heart full of pity for the sufferings of others, a docile body which he had pressed tightly in his arms and explored with his fingers, a woman of whom he might one day come into absolute possession if he succeeded in making himself indispensable to her.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

As soon as Aguinaldo’s flight and wanderings terminated in the finding of permanent headquarters, he began sending messages to his various generals all over Luzon and the other islands, and wherever those orders were not intercepted they were delivered and loyally obeyed.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

She is a woman that one may, that one must laugh at; but that one would not wish to slight.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Before returning answer to this royal suitor, Helgé consulted the Vala, or prophetess, and the priests, who all declared that the omens were not in favour of the marriage.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Well, I do not know that one would necessarily die after merely seeing it, but to attempt to live there might turn out a little differently.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

If a South Slavonian has a mind to pilfer and steal at market, he has nothing to do but to burn a blind cat, and then throw a pinch of its ashes over the person with whom he is higgling; after that he can take what he likes from the booth, and the owner will not be a bit the wiser, having become as blind as the deceased cat with whose ashes he has been sprinkled.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He replied that it was a task of which no man could be covetous, more especially himself, whose administration had formerly been marked by the banishment of corruption and disorder, for that he must now call in the aid of these vices, and assimilate the means to the times.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

A Proposition of Relation, beginning with “All”, is (as shown in § 3 ) equivalent to two Propositions, one beginning with “Some” and the other with “No”, each of which we now know how to translate.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Among the notable mothers, Dolly Winthrop was the one whose neighbourly offices were the most acceptable to Marner, for they were rendered without any show of bustling instruction.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

The success of this opera was not brilliant, but certainly honourable to the composer: its value, however, stands higher in our estimation than in that of the generality of the public; the reason is, it requires in many parts a serious, deep power of conception on the part of the audience; it takes for granted a sense, and a degree of cultivation for what is noble, which the major part of the theatrical public does not possess, which expects, for the most part, to be amused with senseless vulgarity, or, as is the case with Spontini’s newest operas, to be excited by tasteless splendour and noise.
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

That is the strange thing about the light shed upon educational problems by cases like that of Watt, Newton, and other men of commanding genius.
— from The Curse of Education by Harold Edward Gorst

Among them were the highwaymen lately taken at Westminster, two of whom, namely, Thomas Green, alias Phillips, and Thomas Spiggot, refusing to plead, the court proceeded to pass the following sentence upon them: 'that the prisoner shall be,' etc.
— from Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

It is strange what little things one will notice when at one's wits' end.
— from A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

And then young men who wasted themselves acquired diseases from the terrors of which no fortune could promise release; a thought that had long dwelt uncomfortably in a sensitive, deep-shadowed corner of his brain.... a brain that was racing now, beyond control.
— from In Red and Gold by Samuel Merwin

"Tonight, in gratitude for his friendship, for his offer of an abode to one who no longer has any roof save a tent, I offer to His Highness, the Maharana of Udaipur, my own turban, that he may have a lasting token of my gratitude.
— from The Moghul by Thomas Hoover

There was a trough of water near by and to it the boys conducted the professor, who was half-blinded by the stinging Spanish dish, which is a sort of pepper stew.
— from The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash; or, Facing Death in the Antarctic by John Henry Goldfrap

Such was the one we noted in the churchyard of St. Buryan, another of those long, low, lofty-towered old churches characteristic of Cornwall.
— from From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England. by Katharine Lee Bates

Madam , To whom can a work which professes to blend amusement with instruction, be dedicated with so much propriety, as to one, whose numerous writings have satisfactorily demonstrated the practicability and value of such a union;--to one, who has stripped Romance of her meretricious trappings, and converted her theatre into a temple worthy of Minerva?
— from Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of Popular Toys and Sports by John Ayrton Paris

What was Cromwell paid to sign that order with no inquiry made, I wonder?”
— from The Lady of Blossholme by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard