The author of the volume is a distinguished representative of the modern scientific study of criminology, or “criminalistic” as he prefers to call it.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

And that according to the 7th Observation, a very little variation of obliquity will change the reflected Colour, where the thin Body or small Particles is rarer than the ambient Medium, insomuch that such a small Particle will at diversly oblique Incidences reflect all sorts of Colours, in so great a variety that the Colour resulting from them all, confusedly reflected from a heap of such Particles, must rather be a white or grey than any other Colour, or at best it must be but a very imperfect and dirty Colour.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

“I tell you that with that wretched sum,” continued Andrea, “I could obtain a coat, and a room in which to receive the illustrious visitor I am daily expecting.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“My vocation is a different one,” thought Princess Mary.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The gesture varies in all degrees from the complex movement, just described, to only a momentary and scarcely perceptible raising of both shoulders; or, as I have noticed in a lady sitting in an arm-chair, to the mere turning slightly outwards of the open hands with separated fingers.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

But a central organ of information and instruction for all the localities, would be equally valuable in all departments of administration.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Mine eye Has scared the gull that sailed To blacker depths with shrillest scream, Still fainter, till like voices in a dream.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

This very important and difficult operation is daily made by numbers of honest clerks, who know their arithmetic; but a Plato or a Montesquieu would not venture to undertake it without the greatest diffidence, or without praying to Heaven for understanding and integrity.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Vel in abusum Dei vel in aemulationem.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[Pg 287] VIII IN A DEVON
— from Miss Primrose: A Novel by Roy Rolfe Gilson

It was a bright October morning as we steamed into the little harbor at Dieppe, and the first scene that met my eye was, I suppose, a characteristic one,—four or five old men and women towing a vessel into a dock.
— from Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs

Vardon is a dreamer, a visionary inventor who will never amount to anything.
— from Dick Hamilton's Airship; Or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds by Howard Roger Garis

Cris I protest to thee, Horace, (do but taste me once,) if I do know myself, and mine own virtues truly, thou wilt not make that esteem of Varius, or Virgil, or Tibullus, or any of 'em indeed, as now in thy ignorance thou dost; which I am content to forgive: I would fain see which of these could pen more verses in a day, or with more facility, than I; or that could court his mistress, kiss her hand, make better sport with her fan or her dog Hor.
— from The Poetaster by Ben Jonson

He was a large landholder, selling many small farms to acceptable persons; he spent money freely, buying everything he needed for his household and farm in Rosewater, instead of sending to the city; he was studying law with a view to practising in their midst; and now that Judge Leslie—who proclaimed him a marvel—was threatening to retire, his keen and cautious fellow-citizens needed nothing more than a man of first-class legal ability to take care of their great and varied interests and defend them against the corporation bogie.
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

From him the Palace, for such it was, has descended (and, oh, how much descended!) to its present owner, who is said to rarely visit it, a Duke of Medina Cœli.
— from An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir

They reassembled on the 11th and 12th of August, and spat forth all their venom in another decree specially aimed at the authority of the Regent.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 12 by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

"No one knew what had become of the body of St. Stephen for 400 years, when Lucian, a priest of Carsamagala, in Palestine, was visited in a dream by Gamaliel, the doctor of the law at whose feet Paul was brought up in all the learning of the Jews; and Gamaliel revealed to him that after the death of Stephen he had carried away the body of the saint, and had buried it in his own sepulchre, and had also deposited near it the body of Nicodemus and other saints; and this dream having been repeated three times, Lucian went with others deputed by the bishop, and dug with mattocks and spades in the spot which had been indicated,—a sepulchre in a garden,—and found what they supposed to be the remains of St. Stephen, their peculiar sanctity being proved by many miracles.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

He decided finally that it was best interpreted by a little pause after "gain," with the remaining words vanishing in a despondent sigh.
— from Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Meredith Nicholson