Vain indeed must be all her attentions, vain and useless her affection for his sister and her praise of himself, if he were already self-destined for another.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

a purple, inclining to red or violet, accordingly as the point Z lieth on the side of the line DO towards E or towards C, and in general the compounded violet is more bright and more fiery than the uncompounded.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Vain indeed must be all her attentions, vain and useless her affection for his sister and her praise of himself, if he were already self-destined to another.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

This is represented in the diagram by V ; it may be a thought of the first movement or of the last result, or a mere perception of some of the habitual conditions of the chain, the presence, e.g., of the keyboard near the hand.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

His appointment as viceroy is mentioned by Arrian (iv. 22 supra).
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

“Oh,” observed Madame de Villefort, “it must be an admirable anti-spasmodic.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

If it has all the associations appropriate to spaniels but no others, we shall say it means "spaniel"; while if it has all the associations appropriate to one particular dog, it will mean that dog, however vague it may be as a picture.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

" The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as truly said, as it was of the ancient scribes and Pharisees, "They bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

From another point of view, it must be added that if men were really forced to project their own image into things, then the first sacred beings ought to have been conceived in their likeness.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

As on the theory of natural selection an interminable number of intermediate forms must have existed, linking together all the species in each group by gradations as fine as our present varieties, it may be asked, Why do we not see these linking forms all around us?
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

If the animal is taken up in the early stages of the disease, the skin may only be adhering to a part behind the shoulder-blade; but in a day or two the adhesion will be found to extend along the whole of the spine; or, vice versa , it may begin across the kidneys and go forward to the shoulder-blade.
— from Cattle and Cattle-breeders by William McCombie

“P.S.—I took a viper into my bosom, and it stung me .”
— from The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thackeray

Continuing to judge him from the aesthetic point of view, it may be added that he who abases himself by a vile action can to a certain extent be raised by a crime, and can be thus reinstated in our aesthetic estimation.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

From the foregoing remarks upon the various portions of the Violin it may be assumed that the reader has gained sufficient insight into the process of its manufacture to enable him to dispense with a more minute description of each stage.
— from The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart

As according to the theory of natural selection an interminable number of intermediate forms must have existed, linking together all the species in each group by gradations as fine as our existing varieties, it may be asked, Why do we not see these linking forms all around us?
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

If I speak with some particularity of the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, it must be ascribed in part to the affection of a commander, and in [Pg vii] part to my desire to relieve its brave officers and men in the ranks from unjust aspersions.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

As more than usual care is necessary in the binding of these volumes, it may be as well to mention that we have particularly instructed Mr. Betts, of Compton Street, Brunswick Square, on this subject.
— from Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 3 or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

The literary situation which confronted me when I came to Boston was, then, as native as could well be; and whatever value I may be able to give a personal study of it will be from the effect it made upon me as one strange in everything but sympathy.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells