He obtained, moreover, a general recognition for the doctrine of the Law of Nature which exerted so strong an influence upon succeeding centuries; indeed, between these two sciences, as between international law and ethics, he draws no very sharp line of demarcation, although, on the whole, in spite of an unscientific, scholastic use of quotation from authorities, his treatment of the [p. 26] new field is clear and comprehensive.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

After a time she rose, having done all a girl could do [Pg 165] for those she loved, and, undressing, slowly crawled into bed.
— from From the Valley of the Missing by Grace Miller White

" "Was it on British soil, or in the United States?" "Certainly in British territory; and on one of the excursions I made from Calgary.
— from At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Only the 198 United States Court, in Boston, trying a man for helping Shadrach out of the furnace of the kidnappers,—the court which executes the Fugitive Slave Bill,—that does not adjourn; that keeps on; its worm dies not, and the fire of its persecution is not quenched, when death puts out the lamp of life!
— from The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

This expresses the fundamental difference between the government of this great American republic and all other systems of government devised by man before the Constitution of the United States came into being.
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell

Gratschev got up suddenly, caught Ilya by the sleeve, and looked in his face in a friendly way.
— from Three Men: A Novel by Maksim Gorky

It would have been well if, at the time of the separation, all those who knew as little about the matter then as we know about it now had shown that forbearance which, under such circumstances, is but common justice.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The scavengers in passing observe the signal, and call at the house; otherwise they pass on, unless specially called in by the occupants, thus avoiding any unnecessary delay in their rounds.
— from The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook by H. Percy (Henry Percy) Boulnois

The result is that the solution of the problem of the origin of life by spontaneous generation, as a property of "certain elements of matter, united in a special form, under special conditions," is buried forever out of sight.
— from The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 7, July, 1880 by Various