Piles of parchment.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

"Is it possible," they will ask, "that at the beginning of the twentieth century nations calling themselves democracies were content to act on what happened to drift across their doorsteps; that apart from a few sporadic exposures and outcries they made no plans to bring these common carriers under social control, that they provided no genuine training schools for the men upon whose sagacity they were dependent; above all, that their political scientists went on year after year writing and lecturing about government without producing one single, significant study of the process of public opinion?"
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The figure is made of differently-coloured pieces of paper pasted on a framework either by a blind man or according to the directions of a necromancer.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Then said Mercy, "How sweet is rest to them that labor, and how good is the Prince of pilgrims to provide such resting-places for them!
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

If, then, we take as the principle of ideal justice, so far as this can be practically aimed at in human society, the requital of voluntary services in proportion to their worth, it remains to consider on what principle or principles the comparative worth of different services is to be rationally estimated.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

There are ponderous archways down there, also, over which the destroying “plough” of prophecy passed harmless.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But still we hear of no actual conflict with the chief princes of the Seljukian house, and of no event in his history so important as to account for his being made to play the part of Presbyter Johannes in the story of the Bishop of Gabala.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The industry was greatly damaged by a disastrous storm in 1900, and was also adversely affected by the European War, as a large part of Porto Rico's crop goes to Europe.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I don't know his present official position, but he was certain to become prominent.
— from This World Is Taboo by Murray Leinster

The envoys on the part of Philip were the Prince of Orange, the Duke of Alva, the Bishop of Arras, Ruy Gomez de Silva, the president Viglius; on that of the French monarch, the Constable, the Marshal de Saint Andre, the Cardinal de Lorraine, the Bishop of Orleans, and Claude l'Aubespine.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

The fight between a merlin and a partridge or pigeon is of comparatively short duration, as the little hawk, having her foot tightly clenched round the neck of her captive, is sure of its death within a minute or so.
— from The Art and Practice of Hawking by E. B. (Edward Blair) Michell

The evident and immediate want of Workdays is a park or public garden, in which it can walk about, and cool and restore itself.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

1. Look carefully at the picture on page 18 and describe it.
— from Highroads of Geography Introductory Book: Round the World with Father by Anonymous

THE CALUMET: PIPE OF PEACE.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

An adj., ptc., or prn., referring to m. , uzually agrees w. it in gender and number; Mk. V, 31.
— from A Gothic Grammar, with selections for reading and a glossary by Wilhelm Braune

EGYPTIAN CREATION MYTHS Turning to ancient Egypt, that dark ocean of myth and mystery, we find in papyrus 10,188, housed in the British Museum, an account of the origin of things written for a priest of Panopolis, called Nes-Amsu, about the year 312 B.C.
— from An Introduction to Mythology by Lewis Spence

PROJECT KENMORE QUALITY, A PEDIGREE OF PERFECTION.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Pictures of persons famous in history are also of value, in that they make these persons more real to the pupils.
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History by Ontario. Department of Education