If there were—Charles Darnay, if there were—” The young man had taken his hand gratefully; their hands were joined as the Doctor spoke: “—any fancies, any reasons, any apprehensions, anything whatsoever, new or old, against the man she really loved—the direct responsibility thereof not lying on his head—they should all be obliterated for her sake.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Consequently apprehension in such an event, and the event itself, as far as regards the possibility of its perception, stands under the conception of the relation of cause and effect: and so in all other cases.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

“I managed one wood, and found a road the other side which went a good bit uphill.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The most zealous of the Catholics had escaped with the relics of their saints; and if the gates were shut, it was only till the victor had subscribed a fair and reasonable capitulation.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This Syrup cools and moistens, and that very gently, it corrects the sharpness of choler, and gives ease in hot vices of the breast, it quenches thirst in acute fevers, and resist the heat of the disease; it comforts hot stomachs exceedingly, cools the liver and heart, and resists putrefaction, pestilence, and poison.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Either the engineer had been able to save himself, and had already found a refuge on some point of the coast, or he was lost for ever!
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The suspense seemed to have taken a new lease, and to have begun afresh from a recent date.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

a certain measure of grain distributed for food at set times to the slaves of a family, a ration, Lu. 12.42.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

And though we hope for a better life, eternal happiness, after these painful and miserable days, yet we cannot compose ourselves willingly to die; the remembrance of it is most grievous unto us, especially to such who are fortunate and rich: they start at the name of death, as a horse at a rotten post.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Summing up he said: “ I am at a loss how to explain what scientific grounds there are to defend and fortify a revival of the old materialistic views of an Epicurus and a Lucretius , and to endeavour to insure to it a permanent rule....
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

The division was moved to Alsace for a rest.
— from Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918) by United States. War Department. General Staff

Instead of this precaution (which would strike all thinking men) being taken, a park has been formed, by filling in the lower portions with any filth and refuse brought for the purpose, which will pollute the water {199} percolating through it to the lower levels, and for years to come, especially during the extreme heat of summer, will give off fever germs to the surrounding neighbourhood.
— from The Golden South: Memories of Australian Home Life from 1843 to 1888 by Kathleen Lambert

Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen; and repent, and 99 do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will 100 remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

The Duke of Mayenne, in his own name and that of all the Catholics of France, formally demanded of him to maintain two armies, forty thousand men in all, to be respectively under command of the duke himself and of Alexander Farnese, and regularly to pay for them.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

He said Jehovah asked: “Who shall persuade Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?”
— from Bible Characters by Dwight Lyman Moody

The fields in that direction are wide and free, and ready for good seed.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

The operators were transmitting piles of messages to and from anxious relatives, and were not sorry to see someone who could lend them a hand.
— from With Steyn and De Wet by F. F. (Filippus Fourie) Pienaar

I'm in the Academy for a reason, a special reason.
— from Stand by for Mars! by Carey Rockwell