[It is attractive] because Reason exerts a dominion over sensibility in order to extend it in conformity with its own realm (the practical) and to make it look out into the Infinite, which is for it an abyss.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

This visitor created the greatest alarm and apprehension along its path, the blaze of light being accompanied by repeated explosions and detonations which sounded like the rumble and roar of cannonading.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899 Volume LIV, No. 4, February 1899 by Various

Consequently, any Chamber of Commerce in a city whose merchants are adversely affected by rail embargoes and delays, freight congestion, or lack of sufficient and direct rail transportation, and where there is any considerable number of motor trucks, will not be embarking upon a doubtful experiment in establishing such a bureau.
— from Return-Loads Bureaus To Save Waste In Transportation by United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee

This town has not forgotten, doubtless, how the Princes of Wurtemberg and Hohenlohe and the Emperor Alexander himself justified the burnings, pillage, violations, and numerous assassinations committed under their very eyes, not only by the Cossacks, but also by regularly enlisted and disciplined soldiers.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

There was a bold rough energy, a daring go-ahead spirit, that overbore him wherever he went.
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever