Now, with no disrespect to the good and learned Baron, is it not safe to say that any single philosopher, however wide his sympathies, must be just such a Bunsen in der Geschichte of the moral world, so soon as he attempts to put his own ideas of order into that howling mob of desires, each struggling to get breathing-room for the ideal to which it clings?
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

His particularly free manner of dancing even surprised them all.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“Will you let me order dinner, Emilio?” said the Marchesino: “I know what they do best here.”
— from A Spirit in Prison by Robert Hichens

A tiny tap and I set vibrating millions of delicate, ethereal sounds, the timbre of which to my ears has color, form, substance, nuance, and thrills me even to my old marrow.
— from Melomaniacs by James Huneker

He looked to it as the means of doing essential service to the church of which he was an ordained member, and, secondarily, as the road to reputation and well-merited advancement.
— from St. Winifred's; or, The World of School by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

If a fire should consume the Crystal Palace, the inevitable loss must exceed One Hundred Millions of Dollars, even supposing that a few of the most precious articles should be snatched from the swift destruction.
— from Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley

The Tongans also believed in a mode of divination (essentially similar to the casting of lots) by the twirling of a cocoa-nut.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

Therefore, continency itself absolutely considered seems no reason why the solemn vow thereof cannot be a matter of dispensation; especially seeing that the Apostle (1 Cor. 7:34) exhorts us to be continent on account of contemplation, when he says that the unmarried woman . . .
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

"My own darling Emmeline, speak to me; I cannot bear to see you thus.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

And it's a cert there are special men on duty, ever since the death of that Chink.”
— from Tales of Chinatown by Sax Rohmer

Tell you about some of my ‘off duty’ experiences some time.
— from The Arrow of Fire A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Paul, on hearing this proposal, which he could not refuse, made an involuntary movement of dismay, exactly similar to that he had made the night before.
— from In Search of a Son by William Shepard Walsh