But in defining progress he makes a distinction between ideas like progress, providence, and fate and ideas like liberty, toleration, and socialism.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

She glanced round for an instant, looked inquiringly at him, and with a slight frown turned away again.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For as in landscape gardening, a spire, cupola, monument, or tower of some sort, is deemed almost indispensable to the completion of the scene; so no face can be physiognomically in keeping without the elevated open-work belfry of the nose.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

For what other basis for action in life have we got?"
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

He tried to get away from them, but they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair’s breadth.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

After Adrian's declared predeliction to the republican form of government, the latter party had nearly died away, chiefless, guideless; but, when Lord Raymond came forward as its leader, it revived with redoubled force.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And for three years of this fantastic and imaginary life we must go and throw away our true and essential life, and engage ourselves in a perpetual death!
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

His cheek, with the soft skin reddened, she thought, with desire of her person, and Emma felt an invincible longing to press her lips to it.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

2439. (b.) Final a is long in some Greek nominatives and vocatives: as, N. Ēlectrā ; V. Aenēā , Pallā .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

She left them in the flower-perfumed dimness of the shaded hall, and the whole business of the afternoon had by this time so explained and reconciled itself to Paul’s mind that he would have been a brute to fret about it longer.
— from Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray

I found my heart touched with so much love and reverence at the sight of her, that the tears ran down my face as I looked upon her; and still the more I looked upon her, the more my heart was melted with the sentiments of filial tenderness and duty.
— from The Tatler, Volume 4 by Steele, Richard, Sir

France and its language are but to me the dreams of an uninteresting childhood.
— from Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott

I lay quite still, for I was stupefied with horror, whilst the creature came still nearer; and now it was nearly upon me, when it suddenly drew back a little, and then—what do you think?—it lifted its head and chest high in the air, and high over my face as I looked up, flickering at me with its tongue as if it would fly at my face.
— from Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Borrow

What prevents different churches from adopting the same standards, and holding communion with one another in waiting on all the ordinances of divine grace, is sufficient to prevent them from associating in league in this manner.
— from The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

When he was dead a look of happiness came upon his face, and it looked like the face of a very young man.
— from Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by Maksim Gorky

It was not that he was so much interested in the subject—at that particular moment—but it was certainly fine to have Belle Meade for an interested listener.
— from Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis; Or, Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Tenements, hotels, and massage parlors were found to be openly, flagrantly, and in large numbers utilized for the commercial exploitation of prostitution in the interest, not of the woman herself, but of a promoter who drives her to do her utmost and assists in the work by cunningly angling for victims for her.
— from Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by George J. (George Jackson) Kneeland

After the conquest of Spain by the Mohammedans, Arabic literature had found a new home in Western Europe, and among the numerous works translated from Arabic into Latin or Spanish, we find towards the end of the thirteenth century (1289) a Spanish translation of our fables, called “Calila é Dymna.”
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller