So that equality of proportion should be avoided except on those rare occasions when effects remote from nature and life are desired.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Because one person does a thing right or wrong, everybody round fancies himself bound to do likewise.
— from Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley

She took a vivid interest, not only in 279 the place, but also in my own somewhat doleful experience there in former and less happy times, not yet remote, the recital of which experiences rendered the present all the more glorious by contrast.
— from A Chicago Princess by Robert Barr

Its one redeeming feature in my eyes was its uncompromising steepness; nothing that ran on wheels ever ran that way, but toiled painfully to the top, tacking from side to side, forever and forever, all the way up.
— from In the Footprints of the Padres by Charles Warren Stoddard

"What an interesting question that raises," observed Wickham, examining rather ruefully the three meager cards he had drawn.
— from Ladies Must Live by Alice Duer Miller

Had they been Jesuits, it is ten to one they had remained and spent their lives `indoctrinating', for the Jesuits alone of all the religious Orders were ever ready to take every risk.
— from A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

Thence they were removed to Richmond, occupying, while en route , the prisons of a half-dozen Rebel cities.
— from Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Thomas Wallace Knox

Too much of the remaining opposition was emotional, rooted in prejudice and tradition, to yield to any but forceful methods.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

And certainly the first impression made by these two goodly volumes is a very favorable one; for, making due allowance for the music scattered through them with not too lavish a hand, by way of examples, we have still some six hundred solid pages of reading matter,—space enough in which to answer many a vexed question, clear up many a dark point, give us the results of widely extended researches, and place Beethoven the Man and the Composer before us in "Leben und Schaffen,"—in his life and his labors.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The conquest of the feudal nobility between the Elbe and the Oder, and the feudal colonies of the military orders of knights in Prussia and Livonia, only laid the ground for a far more extensive and effective system of Germanization by the trading and manufacturing middle classes, which in Germany, as in the rest of Western Europe, rose into social and political importance since the fifteenth century.
— from Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Or, Germany in 1848 by Friedrich Engels

These, with Diana, Redworth, Dacier, the German Eastern traveller Schweizerbarth, and the French Consul and Egyptologist Duriette, composed a voyaging party up the river, of which expedition Redworth was Lady Dunstane's chief writer of the records.
— from Diana of the Crossways — Complete by George Meredith