The pretty rosy mother was standing near him, talking as if she was asking final questions.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

But having thus loosened all our particular perceptions, when I proceed to explain the principle of connexion, which binds them together, and makes us attribute to them a real simplicity and identity; I am sensible, that my account is very defective, and that nothing but the seeming evidence of the precedent reasonings coued have induced me to receive it.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Pope's father had died in 1717, and the poet, rejecting politely but firmly the suggestion of his friend, Atterbury, that he might now turn Protestant, devoted himself with double tenderness to the care of his aged and infirm mother.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

“That was one of the principal reasons I came here.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

Lear's description of Tempe: "It is not a vale, it is a narrow pass, and although extremely beautiful on account of the precipitous rocks on each side, the Peneus flowing deep in the midst between the richest overhanging plane woods, still its character is distinctly that of a ravine."
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Lines of communications designate the practicable routes between the different portions of the army occupying different positions throughout the zone of operations.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

But I will descend to particulars: read their several symptoms and then guess.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

That liberation, it is evident, can never be brought about, without either some very considerable augmentation of the public revenue, or some equally considerable reduction of the public expense.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Falsehood, ingratitude, injustice, the childishness of the purposes regarded by ourselves as important and great, in the pursuit of which men inflict upon each other all imaginable evils, are so contradictory to the Idea of what men might be if they would, and conflict so with our lively wish to see them better, that, in order that we may not hate them (since we cannot love them), the renunciation of all social joys seems but a small sacrifice.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

If the palefaces refuse to restore it, their village shall be burnt, their warriors put to death, their wives and children carried away as slaves."
— from Stoneheart: A Romance by Gustave Aimard

This example of luxury unhappily is imitated in a feebler degree, though perhaps not with a feebler spirit, by the labourers, the effects of which are the more frequently felt when they come home in autumn to their wives, who have barely a crust left, and not a kopeck to receive from the pretty round sum earned by their devoted partners during their summer’s work at the mines.
— from From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin by Victor Meignan

The Cambria Iron Company was chartered under the general law in 1852, for the operation of four old-fashioned charcoal furnaces in and near Johnstown, which was then a village of 1300 inhabitants, to which the Pennsylvania railroad had just been extended.
— from History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. by Willis Fletcher Johnson

"There was a mule shot back in the pass," Rennie explained.
— from Rebel Spurs by Andre Norton

The ascent to this temple was by twelve flights of steps, and the temple was on the twelfth, of an octagonal form, and at each angle rose a large pillar; and between the pillars were placed ten columns of the same height as the pillars, rising at once from the pavement to a height of twenty eight braccia and a half; and at this height the architrave, frieze and cornice were placed which surrounded the temple having a length of eight hundred braccia.
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo

Both men’s blood was up now, and indeed Dick’s was showing, as it streamed from what is called, in the graceful language of the prize ring, “his smeller,” and at the sixth round the onlookers saw that the final bout would be severe.
— from The Island of Fantasy: A Romance by Fergus Hume

Their camp, which was in a low situation, was quickly overflowed by the pouring rains, and the ground became ankle deep in mud.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish by Charles Morris

Even this procedure, requiring much attention, does not give as clear a solution as some of the other extraction procedures employed.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Its location, however, is far more pleasant, on the margin of the flower-mantled garden, and within sight of the busy Victoria Embankment and of the panoramic river scenery.
— from Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various

The Patricians formed the Populus Romanus, or sovereign people.
— from A Smaller History of Rome by William Smith