“Come, let us go.” Chapter 5 At the concert in the afternoon two very interesting things were performed.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
The oligarch changes into the democrat in the following manner:—The youth who has had a miserly bringing up, gets cxxii a taste of the drone’s honey; he meets with wild companions, who introduce him to every new pleasure.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato
Young fella, I bet old Uncle George can mix the best cocktail in these United States!”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
But when this affectionate relation between physician and patient occurs regularly in every new case, under the most unfavorable conditions and even under grotesque circumstances; when it occurs in the case of the elderly woman, and is directed toward the grey-beard, or to one in whom, according to our judgment, no seductive attractions exist, we must abandon the idea of an accidental interruption, and realize that we are dealing with a phenomenon which is closely interwoven with the nature of the illness.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
In some small states, duties similar to those passage duties are imposed upon goods carried across the territory, either by land or by water, from one foreign country to another.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
[A; a12] nationalize, put under government control.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
But the law of freedom (that is, of a causality not subject to sensible conditions), and consequently the concept of the unconditionally good, cannot have any intuition, nor consequently any schema supplied to it for the purpose of its application in concreto.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
You can avoid noise problems by using get commands (see Chapter 15), and by making the online service use its minimum prompts ('expert mode') .
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno
In this period the revolt against classicism is shown in the revival of romantic poetry under Gray, Collins, Burns, and Thomson, and in the beginning of the English novel under Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long
Le graphisme a été refait par un généreux contributeur et je reçois régulièrement des critiques réalisées par d'autres personnes.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Its subsequent transport to the interior is effected often by direct Government carriage, and always under Government control and supervision.
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement
That something weighed on his mind, that he was observing her with unwonted gravity, Charlotte perceived before the dinner was over.
— from The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis
If their shapes are sketched at intervals of a few minutes, they are invariably seen to have undergone great changes of form; and the same cell has been observed for several hours.
— from Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin
The latter gas acts powerfully upon glucose, converting it into a species of gum called mannite , so that lactic fermentation—in itself an intolerable nuisance—becomes the source of a new and equally objectionable waste of sugar.
— from A Practical Handbook on the Distillation of Alcohol from Farm Products by F. B. (Frederic B.) Wright
If they stumbled and fell, they were tenderly lifted up, given counsel, and guided in the way of life.
— from Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks
If Miss Morris found little skill [Pg 561] necessary to discomfit her opponent, and wondered thereat, she could not see, as he saw, a dark face, bowed on tropic blooms, flushed with unwonted glad color, lips apart and aquiver, wide eyes lustrous with purple light, shining through the tears that gathered in them.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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