One is liable to waste his wit, to be sure; for in a crowd so rarely bien composée , as they phrase it, the undistinguishing dress gives every one the opportunity of bewildering you; but the feet and manner of walking, and the tone and mode of expression, are indices sufficiently certain to decide, and give interest to a pursuit; and, with tolerable caution, one is paid for his trouble, in nineteen cases out of twenty.
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis

[836] Diesem Theil desto mehr Freude und Trost und dem gegentheil Erschrecken.
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

In other countries, so far as my investigations have extended, the universities do guide economic thought and have a distinct though wholly unofficial function as a court of appeal upon questions relating to the material progress of the communities amongst which they are situated.
— from Ireland In The New Century by Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir

To counteract these unintended defects, God endowed man with reason and choice enabling him to avoid the dangers threatening him in the world of nature.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

The usually dull grey eyes gathered a strange intensity; even Jane, as she looked at the girl, noticed her odd expression, and was rendered vaguely uneasy by it.
— from The Tree of Knowledge: A Novel by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.