What wonder then, that a man, whose habits and conduct are hurtful to society, and dangerous or pernicious to every one who has an intercourse with him, should, on that account, be an object of disapprobation, and communicate to every spectator the strongest sentiment of disgust and hatred.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

A blemish, a fault, a vice, a crime; these expressions seem to denote different degrees of censure and disapprobation; which are, however, all of them, at the bottom, pretty nearly all the same kind of species.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

A command that everyone should try to make himself happy would be foolish, for one never commands anyone to do what he of himself infallibly wishes to do.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

2 [A; a] cut the ears so that they hang.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The gravediggers put on their caps and carried their earthy spades towards the barrow.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

“Ayrton!” cried the engineer, seizing the arm of the man whom he had just found again under such unexpected circumstances.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

But when men had once tried and been accustomed to a common table, experience showed that the institution greatly conduced to security; and in some such manner the custom of having common tables arose among you.
— from Laws by Plato

Ortelius Itinerario: ob annum integrum a cantu, tripudiis et saltationibus tota civitas abstinere jubetur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

the net which is to be darned, closely to the defective part, upon either oil-cloth or coloured paper and cut the edges straight to the thread; Your thread must be of exactly the same size, as that of which the net is made.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

“The storm struck so quickly I didn’t have a chance to escape,” said the air mail flyer as Ralph worked over the twisted ankle.
— from The Sky Trail by Graham M. Dean

"But it takes all sorts to make a world, as he often used to say to himself, and if every one was exactly alike one would feel almost as solitary as if the whole earth was empty and void, while, as for virtues and good qualities, they would automatically cease to exist, so that a really good man would simply long to go to hell and have some opportunity to show his goodness.
— from The Ashiel mystery: A Detective Story by Bryce, Charles, Mrs.

The opposition concentrates itself to-day almost entirely around two theories of naturalism, which do not, indeed, set forth the whole case, but which are certainly typical examples, so that, if we analyse them, we shall have arrived at an orientation of the fundamental points at issue.
— from Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto

The principles of the East resulted in the existence of eunuchs and seraglios; the spurious social standing of France has brought in the plague of courtesans and the more deadly plague of our marriage system; and thus, to use the language of a contemporary, the East sacrifices to paternity men and the principle of justice; France, women and modesty.
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1 by Honoré de Balzac

Apply at this office, for the address, &c." The eager smile, that seemed to warm the wan features of the widow, as she glanced over the advertisement, was dimmed and darkened, as the shining river of summer is shadowed by the heavy passing cloud, when she came to the chilling words— the applicant to have no incumbrances .
— from The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

Her disappearance after the murder of her husband would be almost certain to excite suspicion that she intended to avenge herself by bringing our detachment down upon them.
— from Out with Garibaldi: A story of the liberation of Italy by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

As much pains has been taken to prejudice the country against the persons of the commissioners and their characters have been misrepresented and cruelly treated especially since their confinement at the castle where they are not so likely to hear what is said of them and are not so able to confute it.
— from Copy of Letters Sent to Great-Britain by His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon. Andrew Oliver, and Several Other Persons by Thomas Hutchinson

Two letters are inserted in Rymer’s Fœdera by Dr. Adam Clarke, the editor, said to be written by this sheik.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

"That will give the thief a chance to escape," suggested the detective.
— from Chester Rand; or, The New Path to Fortune by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

In his works we trace the result of a curious thing, experience superseding, taking the place of, education.
— from Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse