It stands in contrast with an immediate, direct experience, something in which we take part vitally and at first hand, instead of through the intervention of representative media.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Todos saludaron al ingeniero, demostrando en sus palabras y actitudes que satisfacían, al verle, la más viva curiosidad.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

like; as I do etc. ; such as; something like, as it were; as soon as; if; that; cómo how; how is it that; what ... like; what? cómoda f bureau.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

tangà a inattentive, doing even simple things incompetently.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

As if death, etc. See on ii. 56 above, and cf.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Lay long, talking with my wife, and did of my own accord come to an allowance of her of L30 a-year for all expences, clothes and everything, which she was mightily pleased with, it being more than ever she asked or expected, and so rose, with much content, and up with W. Hewer to White Hall, there to speak with Mr. Wren, which I did about several things of the office entered in my memorandum books, and so about noon, going homeward with W. Hewer, he and I went in and saw the great tall woman that is to be seen, who is but twenty-one years old, and I do easily stand under her arms.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[148] These are permissive laws of reason which allow us to leave a system of public law, when it is tainted by injustice, to remain just as it is, until everything is entirely revolutionised through an internal development, either spontaneous, or fostered and matured by peaceful influences.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

“The belief in the efficiency of magic dominates the Kula, as it does ever so many other tribal activities of the natives.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

To Tancred, with her inspired brow, her cheek slightly flushed, her undulating figure, her eye proud of its dominion over the beautiful animal which moved its head with haughty satisfaction at its destiny, Eva seemed the impersonation of some young classic hero going forth to conquer a world.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Aber if Doctor Eichendorfer says you could eat steaks and chops, stick to boiled eggs and milk—because steaks would kill you sure.
— from The Competitive Nephew by Montague Glass

It was the battle-song of the Reformation, stirring men to valiant deeds; and it did equal service in sustaining and consoling the Reformers in their darkest hours.
— from The Standard Cantatas: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers A Handbook by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

“Secondly: His Majesty insists that in the execution of it no blood be spilled, nor any measures of severity exercised towards the personal administration in Denmark, except such as are indispensable to maintain the counter-revolution.
— from A Queen of Tears, vol. 2 of 2 Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

It doesn’t say anything here about Christ’s coming to heal bodily suffering or sin, and it does explicitly say he is to cure the blues.
— from The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Katharine Ellis Barrett

What I do mean to ask is: Does each single one of us know any proposition, which is a reason for believing that others exist?
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore