In the case of A, Christianity is a cure, or at least a taming process (under certain circumstances it serves the purpose of making people ill: and this is sometimes useful as a means of subduing savage and brutal natures).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Some have believed that it is due to evolutionary foresight on the part of nature, which is psychically represented by this prohibition, because inbreeding would deteriorate the race-character; others maintained that because of having lived together since early childhood the sexual desire is diverted from the persons under consideration.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

In paintings or mouldings or carvings in mineral or wood, or in the illustrations of books or newspapers, or in the patterns of woven stuffs, or anything to beautify rooms or furniture or costumes, or to put upon cornices or monuments, or on the prows or sterns of ships, or to put anywhere before the human eye indoors or out, that which distorts honest shapes, or which creates unearthly beings or places or contingencies, is a nuisance and revolt.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

She wandered about this place, uncomfortably conscious of the impending interview, till she was quite weary of searching; she ventured to inquire of a boy in what quarter Mr. Henchard could be found.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

" They returned down the hill to dinner, which was fixed at any time at which their father's and mother's morning work in the parish usually concluded.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

[237] Then he says, "they call that kind mythical which the poets chiefly use; physical , that which the philosophers use; civil , that which the people use.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“The purest Ultramontanism!” cried Miüsov impatiently, crossing and recrossing his legs.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ἐκοίνωσα, to make common; in N.T., to profane, desecrate, Ac. 21.28; to render ceremonially unclean, defile, pollute, Mat. 15.11, 18, 20; to pronounce unclean ceremonially, Ac. 10.15; 11.9.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Javert’s zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by M. Chabouillet, secretary of the Prefecture under Comte Anglès.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

In the one entitled "La Grosse" are a number of comely and well-fed personages; in the other, which is baptized "La Maigre Cuisine," the characters are meagre and wasted: seated on a straw mat are a mother and child, which very much resemble the wretched female we see upon the steps in the print under consideration.
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 2 (of 3) by John Ireland

On most terrestrial globe maps meridian circles are represented at intervals of ten, twenty, or thirty degrees, the prime meridian on which the degrees of latitude are marked being usually made very conspicuous, and to the close of the period under consideration usually made to pass through the Cape Verde Islands or the Canaries, a point always to be carefully noted in attempting to get a reading for the longitude of any particular place.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

However, Soult began to pluck up courage and get very bold, he having drawn us back to the Pyrenees.
— from A British Rifle Man The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo by George Simmons

Stir constantly, scraping from the bottom of the pan until cooked enough to suit individual taste, but watch closely, for the longer they cook the drier they become.
— from Cookery for Little Girls by Olive Hyde Foster

This time the little party was snug and warm in the cabin with the provisions under cover, and while the storm raged outside, Ellen and Boreland climbed up into the loft and made a list of the supplies on hand.
— from Where the Sun Swings North by Barrett Willoughby

[6] Roul is of course the personage usually called Rollo.
— from Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest From the Roman De Rou by Wace

The purpose of redemption, therefore, preceded the pitching upon Christ as the means and procuring cause of it, i. e. of our actual redemption, but not of the redeeming purpose; the end is always in intention before the means.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

Little is the public aware of the obligations it owes to those who, led by professional ardour, and the dictates of duty, have devoted themselves to these pursuits, under circumstances most unpleasant and forbidding.
— from An Essay on the Shaking Palsy by James Parkinson

The unalloyed pleasure, however, with which Mrs. Teak regarded the efforts of her husband to put under cultivation land that had lain fallow for twenty years convinced both men that they were on a wrong scent.
— from Ship's Company, the Entire Collection by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

So St. Paul says that the law "was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator"; and that the law was a schoolmaster to bring the people unto Christ.
— from The Harp of God: Proof Conclusive That Millions Now Living Will Never Die by J. F. (Joseph Franklin) Rutherford