which being done, the straw and reeds cast up a great and sudden flame.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

It tends to increase the burden of debt in the South American republics ( c ) It encourages a waste of the world's capital, and ( d )
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose—to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it—to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Such was the counsel of the spy: And Rávaṇ called to Śuka: “Fly, Sugríva lord of Vánars seek, And thus my kingly message speak: “Great power and might and fame are thine, Brave scion of a royal line, King Riksharajas' son, in thee A brother and a friend I see.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Pascal's argument, instead of being powerless, then seems a regular clincher, and is the last stroke needed to make our faith in masses and holy water complete.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

And if a man has no opportunity to excite himself, he will do what he can to create one, and according to his individual bent, he will hunt or play Cup and Ball: or led on by this unsuspected element in his nature, he will pick a quarrel with some one, or hatch a plot or intrigue, or take to swindling and rascally courses generally—all to put an end to a state of repose which is intolerable.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

In this sphere, accordingly, reason cannot present to us any other than pragmatical laws of free action, for our guidance towards the aims set up by the senses, and is incompetent to give us laws which are pure and determined completely a priori.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

They told us to run—” “And so,” little Anne put in solemnly, “we ran back along the shortcut and Ricky caught up with us, and all three of us met Penny and Paul and ran after the bad men.
— from The Trail of the Green Doll A Judy Bolton Mystery by Margaret Sutton

For if we must regard the spermia as real cells no less than the ova, and the process of conception as a coalescence of the two, we must consider the resultant cell as a quite new and independent organism.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Haeckel

Before the eyes of her spirit an interminable procession of her own “Lord's” frocks was passing, paid for with the money of her father, to save a recurrent crisis.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Drunken people were to be seen in all directions, men and women fighting in the streets, and riotous conduct everywhere.
— from Prisons Over Seas Deportation and Colonization; British and American Prisons of To-day by Arthur Griffiths

In that year he found an opportunity to escape from Algiers, and to return to Ajaccio, when he abjured his renegacy, exchanged the Alcoran for the Bible, and, in 1791, was made a constitutional curate, that is to say, a revolutionary Christian priest.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

This great adit opens into the sea at Restronget Creek, and empties its waters into Falmouth Harbour.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

That there is a future most of us agree, because good sense and logic points to that sane and reasonable conclusion.
— from Evening Round-Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by William Crosbie Hunter

Portraits of Maltboy for a series of years would have proved a valuable contribution to human knowledge, as showing the steady and remarkable changes through which a man who is doomed to be fat passes onward to his destiny.
— from Round the Block: An American Novel by John Bell Bouton

It may be also—though here again I am speaking without the Act, that such a recommendation could be carried beyond the Court to the Queen in Council.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

Cut a slice to show a pear, cut a slice to show a row, cut a slice and there is visiting.
— from Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein