The bearers who bring them in profess to be bringing in the Summer, therefore the trees obviously represent the Summer; indeed in Silesia they are commonly called the Summer or the May, and the doll which is sometimes attached to the Summer-tree is a duplicate representative of the Summer, just as the May is sometimes represented at the same time by a May-tree and a May Lady.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

It's a desperately dull business being shut up at the Chase in the summer months, when one can neither hunt nor shoot, so as to make one's self pleasantly sleepy in the evening.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

I suppose they thought me so, and were debating what they should do, for I heard them whisper, and they stood in the same posture for the value of a minute, and then, I thought I perceived other faces in the duskiness beyond the door, and heard louder whispers.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

This will point out the convenience of their consenting to leave the legislative part to be managed by a select number chosen from the whole body, who are supposed to have the same concerns at stake which those who appointed them, and who will act in the same manner as the whole body would act were they present.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

It brings into the light those aspects of the tragic fact which the idea of fate throws into the shade.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Perfect and imperfect duty. {BOOK_1|CHAPTER_2 ^paragraph 40} It will at once be observed that in this table freedom is considered as a sort of causality not subject to empirical principles of determination, in regard to actions possible by it, which are phenomena in the world of sense, and that consequently it is referred to the categories which concern its physical possibility, whilst yet each category is taken so universally that the determining principle of that causality can be placed outside the world of sense in freedom as a property of a being in the world of intelligence; and finally the categories of modality introduce the transition from practical principles generally to those of morality, but only problematically.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

In many instances I have relied altogether upon memory. {*5} This day was rendered remarkable by our observing in the south several huge wreaths of the grayish vapour I have spoken of. {*6} The marl was also black; indeed, we noticed no light colored substances of any kind upon the island.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Partly because in the former the data can be collected more accurately and completely than in the latter; partly, because in history proper, it is not so much men as nations and heroes that act, and the individuals who do appear, seem so far off, surrounded with such pomp and circumstance, clothed in the stiff robes of state, or heavy, inflexible armour, that it is really hard through all this to recognise the human movements.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

She repeated in the same tone, sunk to a whisper, “I have been free, I have been happy, yet his Ghost has never haunted me!”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

But whatever there might be of the too superior in this speech moved Caspar Goodwood’s admiration; there was nothing he winced at in the large air of it.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

An open-air man himself, who often deplored the long hours he was compelled to spend in the special atmosphere of the House of Commons, he rather envied Tod his existence in this cottage, crazed from age, and clothed with wistaria, rambler roses, sweetbrier, honeysuckle, and Virginia creeper.
— from The Freelands by John Galsworthy

The treaty made by Gen. Wayne with the Indians after that battle provided for the cession to the American government of a tract of land at the southern end of Lake Michigan including the site of the present city.
— from The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. by New York Central Railroad Company

While this conversation was carrying on, his sister, Mrs. Dannan, who was listening with much attention, and viewing this stranger with eagerness, imagined that she could discover, amidst the scars of conflict, the effects of an equinoctial sun, and the furrows of distress, some remnants of features that had once been familiar.
— from The captivity, sufferings, and escape of James Scurry Who was detained a prisoner during ten years, in the dominions of Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saib by James Scurry

It was probably viewed in the same light that we [pg 117] regard horsemanship or dancing, and continued to be so in the age of Horace— “Namque, et nobilis, et decens, Et pro sollicitis non tacitus reis, Et centum puer artium, Latè signa feret militiæ suæ 238 .”
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop

It will be noticed that in this year, as in the year before and in 1894, Jones has entered the names of peaks and passes that in the succeeding years he would have considered quite unworthy of serious notice.
— from Rock-climbing in the English Lake District Third Edition by Owen Glynne Jones

It's a nuisance to have to miss all the fun this season; but with the pater in the sulks it wouldn't be worth it.
— from The Odds And Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

If you must work the animal, put it to some easy work where it has soft ground to walk upon. STAGGERS (Forage Poisoning--Inflammation of the Brain) (Cerebral Meningitis) CAUSE: Certain plants or stagnant water are most commonly instrumental in producing staggers; frequently seen in the early autumn months when the grass in the pastures becomes dry and certain forage remains green which contains toxic principles.
— from The Veterinarian by Charles James Korinek

The villain hath left those parts, which should cover the neck and the breast, below in the skirts: and therefore do these so trail behind.
— from The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

It is possible that gypsum may act as an oxidising agent in the soil, just as iron in the ferric condition does.
— from Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman

They could see part of it already, from their camp in the slightly depressed space they had chosen in which to avoid as much wind sweep as possible.
— from The Mystery Boys and the Inca Gold by Van Powell