In the world few people act from principle; present feelings, and early habits, are the grand springs: but how would the former be deadened, and the latter rendered iron corroding fetters, if the world were shown to young people just as it is; when no knowledge of mankind or their own hearts, slowly obtained by experience rendered them forbearing?
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Next day we drove through crowds in the streets of Berlin, en route to the station for Bremerhaven, from which we sailed on the Kaiser Wilhelm II, my mother, father, and I. Quite a contrast to our last voyage together on the cattle ship from Boston!
— from Geraldine Farrar: The Story of an American Singer by Geraldine Farrar

The title 'governor' given to this enemy may be taken as an indication that the epic deals with the rivalry existing among the states of Babylonia, each represented by its capital.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

And for the better assurance of this faith also, the strengths of Berwike, Edenborough, Roxborough, and Striueling were deliuered into the hands of our king Henrie of England, which their owne writers confesse.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

Unless he were refuted by proofs from Scripture, or by evident reason, his conscience bound him to adhere to the Word of God which he had quoted in his defence.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin

As a matter of fact, far from desiring to see or be even reminded of squalor and poverty, the rich seem to have tried to get as far as possible from sight or sound of them, and to wish to forget their existence.
— from Equality by Edward Bellamy

Presently came a strip of bare earth, recently burned over, licked clean by the flame, and desert of human works or being.
— from The Fortunes of Garin by Mary Johnston

"Not those sort of books," explained Ridgwell.
— from The Tale of Lal A Fantasy by Raymond Paton

Now bumping on a reef isn't exactly wholesome for a ship's bottom, so I gave the word to Jenkins for the engines to go to work again; and presently, after two or three unsuccessful attempts, we got her safe off, by energetic reversing, and found to our great delight that the Albatross , like a tight little craft that she was, had sprung no leak, and was making no water.
— from Wednesday the Tenth, A Tale of the South Pacific by Grant Allen

The cars are divided into compartments (Ger. Abtheilungen) of two seats or benches each, running across the car, with doors at the sides.
— from The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, Italy, and Egypt, Adapted to the Wants of Young Americans Taking Their First Glimpses at the Old World by George H. Heffner