Thus, in the course of time, it has come to pass that Japan is a country of which almost every square mile is known, while it is well threaded with paths, banded with roads, and supplied to a remarkable extent with handy volumes of description and of local history.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The obstinacy of my stone to all remedies especially those in my bladder, has sometimes thrown me into so long suppressions of urine for three or four days together, and so near death, that it had been folly to have hoped to evade it, and it was much rather to have been desired, considering the miseries I endure in those cruel fits.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

All her friends were trying to book passage with the Evening Star Travel and Real Estate Corporation, but naturally the demand was crushing.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

Drafting machines at the South Pole were busy around the clock and the Pittsburgh steel mills spewed millions of plates into the Los Alamos spaceport of the Evening Star Travel and Real Estate Corporation.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

Philosophers, however, having perceived that the function of thought is to fix static terms and reveal eternal relations, have inadvertently transferred to the living act what is true only of its ideal object; and they have expected to find in the process, treated psychologically, that luminous deductive clearness which belongs to the ideal world it tends to reveal.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Mupakiring kug sayu arun ku mahimata, I’ll set the alarm ring early
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

La Motte was subjected to a rigorous examination, and the disclosures she made implicating Cagliostro, he was seized, along with his wife, and also sent to the Bastille.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

On this first march we must at once leave behind, a number of men completely worn out and scattered about, often just the bravest, who have been foremost in the fight who held out the longest: the feeling of being conquered, which only seized the superior officers on the battlefield, now spreads through all ranks, even down to the common soldiers, aggravated by the horrible idea of being obliged to leave in the enemy's hands so many brave comrades, who but a moment since were of such value to us in the battle, and aggravated by a rising distrust of the chief, to whom, more or less, every subordinate attributes as a fault the fruitless efforts he has made; and this feeling of being conquered is no ideal picture over which one might become master; it is an evident truth that the enemy is superior to us; a truth of which the causes might have been so latent before that they were not to be discovered, but which, in the issue, comes out clear and palpable, or which was also, perhaps, before suspected, but which in the want of any certainty, we had to oppose by the hope of chance, reliance on good fortune, Providence or a bold attitude.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

An acute pain seized her head, she was scarcely able to hold the lamp, and, looking round for support, was seating herself, unconsciously, in the iron chair itself; but suddenly perceiving where she was, she started from it in horror, and sprung towards a remote end of the room.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

“Ah!” said Jeekie, with a gasp of satisfaction, “ that all right, everything arranged quite comfortable.
— from A Yellow God: An Idol of Africa by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Other high schools try to encourage the habit of industry, no matter what the kind of work, and offer credit for such tasks as running errands, delivering groceries, or carrying a paper route.
— from School Credit for Home Work by L. R. (Lewis Raymond) Alderman

The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.
— from Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the blue sky is seen through a rent extending over a third of the surface of the mighty dome; and a side view reveals an outer and an inner skin, like those of St. Paul’s, with the staircase leading to the summit.
— from The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times by Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir

We have said that a relatively exact judgment may be formed from the size of this angle as to the value of a race of mankind, from the intellectual point of view.
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier

Some one had told him, and he couldn't remember who, that a magpie had her nest in that same tree, and Red Eye was going to look and see.
— from The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall

I heard our medico tell Old Nip (meaning the purser) that Vernon proposed a few days ago to Miss Norman, and was accepted; so they are regularly engaged, you know, and he has a right to dance with her as often as he likes.
— from Salt Water: The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by William Henry Giles Kingston

The penitents must go seven times round these collectively, and seven times afterwards round each individually, saying a prayer before and after each progress.’
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

New subjects of interest, and points of contact, must be sought; temporary absences rather encouraged than deprecated; and lesser loves, as we have already hinted, not turned into gages of battle.
— from The Drama of Love and Death: A Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration by Edward Carpenter