[Pg 154] substitute for the comparatively unfamiliar lens the very familiar notion of a particular change in direction of a line, of which notion every day brings us countless examples."
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Considered with some neutrality, the Birth of Tragedy appears very unseasonable: one would not even dream that it was begun amid the thunders of the battle of Wörth.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He did not speak to me one word, nor even direct to me one glance, till his sisters returned.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Shelby's optimism was not easily dashed and he laid an energetic shoulder to the lagging wheel.
— from The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

Playing "Ophelia" to his "Hamlet" and "Lady Macbeth" to his "Macbeth," and a long series of opposite characters to him, he had not failed to make a powerful impression on her, and if she had been left to herself without guidance or counsel, there is little question but what Pauncefort would have won her; but her mother had more penetration, and could see the objections which "Nellie" either did not see, or care to raise, so the chief arbitrator of the Church, President Young, was appealed to by Miss "Nellie's" mother to decide the case for them.
— from The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah by John S. (John Shanks) Lindsay

That was a day when chiefs of party looked for recruits amongst young men who had given the proofs and won the first-fruits of emulation and assiduity; for statesmanship then was deemed an art which, like that of war, needs early discipline.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

There’s no use our rushing ourselves when nobody else does.”
— from Bobby Blake on a Plantation; Or, Lost in the Great Swamp by Frank A. Warner

Notre Dame, St. Sauveur, and other places of worship, narrowly escaped destruction; and it was not till the middle of the nineteenth century that the town recovered, in some measure, from these disasters.
— from Belgium by George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond

‘Anyone,’ says old Herodotus, the father of history, the truth of whose narrative every day becomes more apparent to everyone who sees Egypt, without having heard a word about it before, ‘must perceive, if he has only common powers of observation, that the Egypt to which the Greeks go in their ships is an acquired country, the gift of the Nile.’
— from Cities of the Dawn Naples - Athens - Pompeii - Constantinople - Smyrna - Jaffa - Jerusalem - Alexandria - Cairo - Marseilles - Avignon - Lyons - Dijon by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

Think of the rays passing through this lens as bending towards the perpendicular, and you substitute for the comparatively unfamiliar lens the very familiar notion of a particular change in direction of a line, of which notion every day brings us countless examples.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

"How often?" "Why, nearly every day."
— from Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

The official weekly newspaper entitled Der SA-Mann , meaning The SA Man , published in Munich, had wide distribution and was on sale at news stands and distributed throughout Germany and occupied countries.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various