Their faculties are sharpened and polished by the attrition of mind with mind, and the pitting of brain against brain, which stimulate ambition, brighten the ideals, and open up new hopes and possibilities.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

By a Circle I understand not here a perfect geometrical Circle, but any orbicular Figure whose length is equal to its breadth, and which, as to Sense, may seem circular.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

[70] But a still more remarkable fact is the extreme healthiness, under numerous hardships and privations, of a company of upwards of six hundred and thirty individuals, many of them women and children, in a climate so unhealthy, that, in time past, it was obliged to be abandoned by those who sought to settle in it.
— from The Wreck on the Andamans by Joseph Darvall

So far as his argument for universal service is based upon national health and physique, I think he is on ground which no one could attack.
— from The German War by Arthur Conan Doyle

To realize more completely the general nature of dramatic art, let us note how a play differs from a story.
— from Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry

Between ourselves, I am not sorry that I did not carry off that pocket-book; if I had, it might have encouraged me in the trade, in which, had I remained, I might have been lagged, sent abroad, as I had been already imprisoned; so I determined to leave it off at all hazards, though I was hard up, not having a penny in the world.”
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow

He quoted from Jefferson's "Manual of Parliamentary Law" to show that the proper course was to give the leading place in such a committee [367] to the prime mover of it, who was, in this case, undoubtedly Trumbull, but that nobody who had shown any interest in the matter to be investigated, not even the Senator from New Hampshire (Patterson), whose investigation of the previous session had uncovered the alleged frauds, and whose familiarity with the case would be most useful now, had any place on it.
— from The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

Not only was such a situation quite unforeseen, nor had any plan of action been preconceived to meet it, but it was in Rumania's case a situation unique from the number of conflicting considerations and influences at work within it.
— from The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Arnold Toynbee

Salome, ill and nervous from the severe shock she had received, could decide upon nothing hastily and pleaded for a short delay.
— from The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

There's a notice up near here, asking people to help.
— from Missing by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Between ourselves, I am not sorry that I did not carry off that pocket-book; if I had, it might have encouraged me in the trade, in which had I remained, I might have been lagged, sent abroad, as I had been already imprisoned; so I determined to leave it off at all hazards, though I was hard up, not having a penny in the world.’
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

Thus in Epic , according to Aristotle , let the Names be what they will, yet the Persons and the Actions are feign'd, allegorical , [Pg 344] and universal , not historical and particular .
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp