With another class of adversaries to the Constitution the language is that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments are intermixed in such a manner as to contradict all the ideas of regular government and all the requisite precautions in favor of liberty.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Height of mandible: from the upper edge of the lower incisors to the lower edge of mandible.
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori

Europe's league includes all of the principal American nations except the United States and Mexico, while our Pacific league includes the two leading European powers.
— from From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy by John Holladay Latané

I see very plainly, that you would like to give him a deeper apprehension of life, but there lies the danger that he will take it too seriously; now the best prescription for life is, to take life easily."
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

But Willie was going with Helen, as he seemed anxious, by strut, and hurry, and loud, impatient talk, to let every body know.
— from The Drummer Boy by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

Louisa is trying to learn English and delights in showing off.
— from Polly the Pagan: Her Lost Love Letters by Isabel Anderson

Thee can learn, if thee tries long enough!"
— from The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss

With another class of adversaries to the constitution, the language is, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments are intermixed in such a manner as to contradict all the ideas of regular government, and all the requisite precautions in favour of liberty.
— from Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) by Harriet Martineau

I saw my condemnation in her eye as she went her path resolutely, turning neither to the right nor to the left, a maiden determined to give me a lesson in this; that love, even when it is only dawning, loves to be assailed.
— from The Black Colonel by James Milne

Given a saner and juster distribution of wealth and culture-machinery, each one of the smaller States may be more civilised, more worth living in, than the larger, even as Athens was better worth living in than Rome, and Goethe's Weimar than the Berlin of 1800.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson